Did you know that the United States spends more on its military than the next ten nations combined? I’m quoting Forbes here, not some left-wing rag. In 2017, when the Forbes article was published, the United States’ defense budget was approximately $600 billion annually. That number was topped in 2018, when Congress passed and the President signed a $716 billion defense budget. Even those numbers, astronomical as they are, understate the […]
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Rizwan Saleem | Death by drone
The destruction was complete. It was so stunning that his brain could scarcely take it in. The attack had come with such force that to look upon the detritus of what remained was a task on its own. He tried to get his bearings on where he stood now. A homestead he had frequented for many years was now unrecognizable. What was this? What had happened here? “Why” did not […]
David Krieger | From Armageddon to transformation
Nuclear weapons pose a grave threat to the future of civilization. As long as we allow these weapons to exist, we flirt with the catastrophe that they will be used, whether intentionally or accidentally. Meanwhile, nuclear weapons skew social priorities, create imbalances of power, and heighten geopolitical tension. Diplomacy has brought some noteworthy steps in curbing risks and proliferation, but progress has been uneven and tenuous. The ultimate aim of […]
Joe Cottonwood | The diplomat’s daughter, 1961
The diplomat’s daughter can recite the 23rd Psalm in Hindi, once drank Coca-Cola with Martin Luther King, is 11 years old. I’m 14. Public school, we’re the same grade. I’m not brilliant, she says. I’m experienced. We ride the bus. She sits with me, walks with me after I rescue her once from certain ignorant assholes. In a white school she’s skinny and shy and brown. Her father sizes me […]
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