The drive to narrow the focus of education by reducing it to test-taking focused almost exclusively on literacy and mathematics, things that are easily measured, while pushing aside the more uncomfortable disciplines like art, philosophy, and the humanities has accelerated over the past couple decades. The comfortable are disturbed by...

Trump said at a news conference in Japan, “We aren’t looking for regime change – I just want to make that clear. We are looking for no nuclear weapons." But Trump breached the treaty the US and other members of the UN Security Council signed with Iran in 2015, which...

So why have so many outlets and people turned against Assange and WikiLeaks? Because it turned out he wasn’t revealing only repressive Arab regimes. He also revealed U.S.-backed coups and war crimes around the world. He exposed the criminality and villainy of the American ruling elite. You won’t see the...

From 1946 to 2000, the Russians -- the Soviet Union until 1991 -- engaged in a staggering 36 “partisan election interventions” globally. The United States took the crown with 81 interventions! The two Cold War superpowers together meddled in approximately “one of every nine competitive elections" in that era in...

CEOs of ExxonMobil such as Lee Raymond or Rex Tillerson or currently Darren Woods are banal in their evil. But they are much worse in the practical effect of their evil than Hitler or Pol Pot or any of the other genocidal maniacs we’ve seen in the past century. They...

The Peninsula's Leading Activist Group will continue to fight for justice in our community and abroad. Attend Sat June 8th to share your ideas for the future of the peace center. We want to hear from YOU!

A federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning back to jail for refusing to testify before a secretive grand jury and imposed a $500 fine for every day she is in custody after 30 days. After 60 days, the fine will increase to $1,000 per day.

Iran is three times the size and population as Iraq and has a modern military force with missiles capable of reaching U.S. bases, navy ships, and troop concentrations up to 1,200 miles away. A war would effectively close shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of the...

Today, when it comes to repeated acts meant to erase reality’s record and memory, it wouldn’t be Eastern Europe or Russia that came to mind but the United States. With the release of the Mueller report, the word “redaction” is once again in the news, though for those of us...

Top executives see AI as their path to windfall profits and personal enrichment by replacing whole swaths of their workforce with an automated army of cheap machines that don’t demand raises, take time off, or form unions.