Progressive Voices Speaking Out
President Joe Biden did something that his three predecessors failed to do during their nearly twenty years of presiding over America’s longest war. Biden leveled with the American people and told them that the war that they were fighting in Afghanistan was one which they were not going to win. That was Truth to Power, something that rarely comes from the mouth of someone in Power.
Nov. 11, now called Veterans Day, was originally Armistice Day, a commemoration of the end of World War I, in 1918, the cessation of
What’s better: a military-based economy or a peace-based economy? Jason Sibert of the Peace Economy Project, says that cutting military spending and funding human
Four and a half years ago, on Sunday, February 23, the 2014 Winter Olympics ended in Sochi, Russia. Four days later, masked Russian troops
For those who think that Donald Trump is thinking about issues, think again. From his utterances [let’s not dignify them by calling them “statements”]
(reprinted from Midwest Socialist) Francis Horton is that rarest of U.S. soldiers: a leftist and self-identifying socialist. Born in Missouri in 1983, he joined
If we needed to be re-awakened, the PBS Series “The Vietnam War” reminded us that men and women who served in Vietnam were certainly
Recently, many of us learned that the US has troops stationed in Niger and in other African nations. The news came as a surprise
I was surprised to learn that last week, four US soldiers were ambushed and killed in the northwestern African nation of Niger. I was
It’s possible that Donald Trump can run away from his Charlottesville problems by trying to be commander-in-chief and uttering a policy about Afghanistan. What