Christopher Columbus has long been a patriotic symbol for the United States of America. Honored with more place names than any other figure of American history except for George Washington, he has been praised as a great explorer—courageous, resolute, and victorious. If Columbus is this hero in the American imagination,...

A rally on Monday in central Seoul featured a large banner reading: “Trump, shut up!”

We know that a US military escalation against Syria will not help the victims of this attack. It will create more dead, including children. There is still no military solution. This is what we know.

Yemen faces the worst humanitarian crisis in the history of the U.N. This was accomplished with massive, ongoing weapons shipments and airstrikes from the U.S.

The one thing you could say about empires is that, at or near their height, they have always represented a principle of order as well as domination. So here’s the confounding thing about the American version of empire in the years when this country was often referred to as “the...

Corporate leviathans and the imperialist agencies that work on their behalf are once again reshaping Latin America into havens for corporate exploitation. It is the eternal story of the struggle by the weak against the strong, the poor against the rich, the powerless against the powerful, and those who would...

Do you know what your government is doing right now in the countries stretching from North Africa through the Middle East to Central Asia?

Americans may see themselves as liberators, but to the Iraqis and so many other peoples Washington has targeted with its drones, jets, and high-tech weaponry, we are the invaders.

The general consequences of resorting to the sledgehammer against vulnerable societies comes as little surprise. he cycle of violence escalates until the invaders withdraw -- or gain their ends by something that may approach genocide.

It may be hard to believe now, but in 1970 the protest song “War,” sung by Edwin Starr, hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. ... But here’s the strange thing: in a way its authors and singer could hardly have imagined, in a way we still can’t...