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  • May 1, 2025

    In the month of August 1945, Japan witnessed the most horrific human carnage.  Two nuclear bombs plummeted from United States warplanes killing thousands.  Some estimates put the death toll at over 200,000 within the first two months due to the affects of the radiation.  Within months, people succumbed to burns,…

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    May 1, 2025

    During the short drive from Beirut toward Damascus, our taxi turned off the road and pulled into a refugee camp in the Lebanese Bekaa Valley. As a journalist and academic who writes about international security, I wanted to see the refugee situation I had read about for myself. I watched…

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    April 22, 2025

    Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia (and their Gulf partners), Israel, Turkey, France, the US, and Russia each have some military involvement in Syria, soon to be followed by the United Kingdom. Needless to say, there are a lot of players in the Middle East and an abundance of interests,…

Tricia’s Take: THINKING BEYOND WAR AND VIOLENCE