The point of a war resolution is not to “send a signal” to anyone. It’s supposed to give the people’s representatives a chance to say no. Without that, it’s little more than an imperial farce.

Obama Sends War Authorization Request to Congress. Tell Congress: No new war authorization. Repeal the old one.

It was culpably naïve to imagine that sparks from the Iraq-Syrian civil war, now in its fourth year, would not spread explosive violence to Western Europe.

Join us for our next monthly forum with two lively segments on the civilian toll in Syria and a progressive guide to holiday shopping. December 2 in Palo Alto.

The chaos unleashed by the Arab Spring “regime changes” in Libya and Syria (and a counterrevolution in Egypt) has spread violence across the Mideast. A lone bright spot has been Tunisia.

This, folks, is what the counter-offensive in Iraq against ISIL is going to look like.

Walking around these tented encampments in the Bekaa with Lebanese and Syrian NGOs of outstanding courage and humanity, one can only wonder how such a tragedy can be resolved.

Journalist Reese Erlich unravels the complex dynamics underlying the Syrian civil war and the new US intervention in that war.

PPJC director Paul George dissects the concept of American exceptionalism and how it has led us a to an Orwellian state of perpetual.war. Free, Oct. 19 in San Mateo.

Here are seven worst-case scenarios in a part of the world where the worst case has regularly been the best that’s on offer.