CONTENTS
Introduction 9
What Is Hidden
Letter From Happy Town 11
Society as a Failed Experiment 14
Free College or Another New War 17
Mayor from Okinawa to Bring Surprising Message 20
Do We Care About People If They Live in Bahrain? 23
A 15-Year Murder Spree 27
Lies About Rwanda 32
Token Anti-War Guest on Television 36
Earth
What World’s Two Biggest Dangers Have in Common 41
The Climate Is Invading the Earth 44
Peacenvironmentalism 46
Turn Left for Earth 56
The Conscience of a Moderate 60
Justice
Can We Really Blame Sociopaths? 65
Torture Is Mainstream Now 72
Juvenile Prison: $5 Billion for Child Abuse 80
If Iraq Were in Central America 86
Nixon’s Treason Now Acknowledged 88
Local Police and Much Else Will Be Militarized 92
On Killing Trayvons 97
How Is a Prison Like a War 102
Torturer on the Ballot 111
Syria
They Never Announce When You Prevent a War 117
Oppose Force to Save Starving Syrians 121
Afghanistan
Everybody’s Got Afghanistan Wrong 129
First 13 Years in Afghanistan Big Success 133
Ukraine
So I Asked the Russian Ambassador What He Thinks 137
Iraq Has WMDs and Russia Has Invaded 140
Drones
Why I Don’t Want to See the Drone Memo 143
So That’s Why They Kept the Drone Kill Memo Secret 146
Pay No Attention to Apocalypse Behind the Curtain 148
Palestine
The Story of Gaza 158
Israeli Military Calling: Civilizing War Has Failed 162
The Palestinian Right and the American Left 166
Should Israel Teach the Holocaust Less? 168
Guess Who Cheers When Ceasefires Collapse 173
If a Genocide Falls in the Forest 178
Israeli Chooses “Honorable Life” Over Joining Military 182
Iraq
A Brief History of Iraq for Westerners 186
The Democratic Push to Bomb Iraq Again 189
Back in Iraq, Jack 192
Top Nine Reasons to Stop Bombing Iraq 195
What to Do About ISIS 200
Warning to War Supporters 203
James Foley Is Not a War Ad 211
If ISIS Were Really a Movie 213
Killed by Congressional Cowardice 216
ISIS, Weapons Makers, Thugs Benefit From This Crime 219
Parliament, Congress Have No Power to Legalize War 222
A Good End Date for the New War Is Today 224
Operation Odysseus’ Butcher Shop 228
Thoughts of a Beheaded Head 231
U.S. Sends Planes Armed With Depleted Uranium 234
Urgent: Right-Left Alliance Needed to Stop This War 238
War Culture
Operation Nazification 241
Thermonuclear Monarchy and Revolution 246
The Genius of Erasmus 253
From Helen to Hillary: Women in War 257
The War Activists 264
War for Dummies 267
War Is Good for Us, Dumb New Book Claims 270
Honestly, War Is Over 276
Celebrating Independence From America in England 298
U.S. Out of Germany 306
A Finger in My Soup 309
Worth Fighting For? 316
War in Our Collective Imagination 323
Causes of War Krugman Overlooked 334
War in the Hundred Acre Woods 337
Losing Losers and the Pentagon That Hires Them 341
Monty Python State Department 344
43 Million People Kicked Out of Their
Homes 346
Beyond 935 Lies 348
Again the Peace Prize Not for Peace 351
Pranking the CIA: The New Get Rich Quick Story 354
War Culture 360
No More Wars on Anything 363
Valor, Remembrance, and Complicity 366
The World Gets the Wars Americans Deserve 375
Watchers of the Sky Falls in a Pit 380
Watch Schooling the World, Stop Schooling the World 383
What Is Imaginable
Misplaced Lessons of Tahrir 385
One Nation the U.S. Actually Should Liberate 390
When We’re All Musteites 393
Imagine There’re No Countries 401
Which Is Worse, Libertarian or Humanita-Warrior? 407
Mark Udall and the Unspeakable 412
57 Candidates and Nothing On 416
Things, Not People, You Can Vote For 420
Who Says Ferguson Can’t End Well 423
One Day We Will All Strike for More Than One Day 425