Peace
UN vote on Palestine shakes things up
December 6, 2012Last week's vote in the UN's General Assembly, which afforded "nonmember observer state" status to Palestine, and the Israeli government's response, has created controversy.
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Middle East: the next four years
November 15, 2012Over the next four years the U.S. will face a number of foreign policy issues, most of them regional, some of them global.
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Today in labor history: Vietnam war protests, draft card burned
October 15, 2012On Oct. 15, 1965, a young Catholic Worker activist, David Miller, burned his draft card in protest of the U.S. war in Vietnam, becoming the first antiwar activist to challenge a law banning the act.
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Burden of Colombian past weighs on peace negotiations
October 15, 2012Protection must await a successful outcome of peace negotiations which were set to begin in Norway on October 17 between the Colombian government and the FARC.
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Syria and the dogs of war
September 28, 2012Once loosed, the dogs of war range where they will.
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