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Political Knives Out After California Attack

Political Knives Out After California Attack

With dust from the California massacre barely settled, the killings are sharpening the US political divide over gun control and spurring attacks on President Barack Obama's counter-terrorism strategy. As Obama…

Lethal lies

By now, they have been forgotten by everyone but the people who admired, cared for and loved them. Zemari Ahmadi – a father, brother and son – was running his…

American atrocities

“TIN soldiers and Nixon coming/ We’re finally on our own/ This summer I hear the drumming/ Four dead in Ohio…” Fifty years after the Neil Young song, four deaths in…

The American Way

The American way

Just after dawn on March 16, 1968, a company of US Army infantrymen, led by Capt Ernest Medina and spearheaded by Lt William Calley, entered the small hamlet of My…

Direct Complicity

Direct complicity

If not for the United States, thousands of men, women, and children would be sitting at home in peace and comfort, not risking their lives across several thousand miles of…

Prison Labour

Prison labour

As wildfires rage across California, some of the people risking their lives to fight them are paid only a few dollars a day. They’re part of a 2.3 million –…

Playing With Violence

Playing with violence

In recent years, there have been several incidents of mass shootings where the perpetrators have been young adults in their teens. In December 2012, Adam Lanza walked into the Sandy…

Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear weapons

Twice in seven days the United States shot nuclear-capable long-range missiles toward the Marshall Islands, but the same government refused in March to join negotiations for a new treaty banning…

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