Two American soldiers who refused to deploy to Iraq now find themselves on opposite sides of a widening legal divide — one facing a return to the United States and near-certain court-martial, the other still fighting through Canada’s courts for the right to stay. Their diverging paths illustrate the increasingly precarious position of the hundreds…
President Obama declared the formal end of America’s combat mission in Iraq in a primetime address from the Oval Office this week, using the moment to pivot the nation’s attention — and its military resources — toward the ongoing war in Afghanistan. “Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility…
In the weeks following Israel’s three-week military offensive in Gaza, doctors treating the wounded began reporting something they said they hadn’t seen before: injuries that didn’t match the wound patterns typically caused by conventional explosives. The unusual injuries have fueled speculation that Israeli forces used a class of weapon known as DIME — Dense Inert…
After years of sustained public opposition, Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority has withdrawn its permit application for the Vía Verde natural gas pipeline, effectively halting a project that had become one of the island’s most contested environmental fights in recent memory. The utility, known by its Spanish acronym AEE, formally pulled the entire Vía Verde…
Egyptian blogger and longtime activist Wael Khalil has spent more than a decade at the center of his country’s opposition movements — and in a wide-ranging conversation, he laid out the hard questions facing activists as they weigh what comes next. Khalil, a software engineer by training, began organizing in Egypt’s anti-war and anti-globalization movements…
Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered on Okinawa this spring, delivering an unmistakable message to Japan’s government: honor the promise to close a controversial US Marine Corps air station and remove it from the island entirely, not simply relocate it to another part of Okinawa. An estimated 90,000 people packed an athletic field for the…