Syria
After Paris, what happens here?
November 17, 2015Americans can't let the hawks stampede us back into panic and illusions that U.S. military supremacy can remake the world.
Read moreNo boots on the ground in Syria!
November 3, 2015The Syrian crisis is, in part, the product of wrong policies of destabilization and regime change that our country needs to abandon.
Read moreRefugees
September 3, 2015This poem is a response to the refugee/migrant crisis now engulfing Europe.
Read moreIsis destroys historic Temple of Bel in Syria
September 1, 2015Earlier this month Isis released footage of the decapitated body of 82-year-old antiquities department chief Khaled Asaad, whose body was later hung from Palmyra's ruins.
Read moreU.S.-Turkey deal: disaster in the making
August 5, 2015The agreement between Turkey and the U.S. to cooperate against the Islamic State in Syria brings to mind a description of "crackpot realists."
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