Peace and Nonviolence

David Cortright History shows engagement, not attack, dissuades countries from developing nuclear weapons. CA ...

This unfathomable amount of money was approved by the House of Representatives in the National Defense Authorization Act. These funds will serve to bring suffering and pain to innocent people, further militari ...

Writing for  Tom's Dispatch  and  The Huffington Post ,  Christopher Hellman  and  Mattea Kramer  estimate what the U.S. really spends on national security: National security accounts for one quarter of every dollar the federal ...

Choose carefully those with whom you surround yourself. Pay attention to that which you pursue with all your heart, all your soul and all your might -- and to what compromises you are willing to make in that p ...

Coffee drinkers live longer A new study conducted by the National Institutes of Health and AARP showed that coffee drinkers are likely to live longer.  Lead researcher Neal Fr ...

Jefferson Morley  writes for  Salon : Opposition to the use of drones in domestic airspace is spreading from the Code Pink left to the Fox News right. While conservatives  laud the use of drones against suspected militants overseas, the su ...

The BBC reports on the opening day of Ratko Mladic's war crimes trial at The Hague. The  BBC  reports on the opening day of Ratko Mladic's war crimes trial at The Hagu ...

Withdrawing from Afghanistan by the end of this year. In his successful run for president of France, one of Francois Hollande’s campaign promises was to withdraw all French troops ...

Gen. John Allen, the U.S./NATO commander in Afghanistan, is reorienting the military mission in Afghanistan. As U.S. troops leave, Afghan troops must take the lead. Gen. John All ...

For Reuters, Sebastian Moffett reports on a new Human Rights Watch report. For  Reuters ,  Sebastian Moffett  reports on a new Human Rights Watch report: "In a r ...