To their credit, Senators Murphy and Lee and Sanders were very clear that a vote to table, rather than directly vote on, their resolution to end the war, would be a cowardly vote not to have a debate and not to obey the U.S. Constitution. By David Swanson. (Mar. 21, 2018)

[Per Boot] If only we'd listened to an eccentric CIA operative, we might have won the Vietnam War. By Andrew J. Bacevich.

On March 17th, 1968, The New York Times ran a brief front page lede headed, “G.I.s’ in Pincer Movement Kill 128 in Daylong Battle...” By Michael Uhl.

In a surprising admission, the head of U.S. Central Command said that CENTCOM does not closely track U.S.-supported Saudi bombing missions in Yemen. By Zaid Jilani.

While Poland has decided to outlaw any claims that their countrymen participated in the extermination of the Jews, Israel continues to ignore the Armenian genocide. By Robert Fisk.

Read the prepared text of the speech Senator Elizabeth Warren gave to Native Americans on Wednesday.

The proliferation of conventional weapons is out of control and incredibly deadly. By Alexander Gillespie.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is the undoubted Middle East man of the year, but his great impact stems more from his failures than his successes. He is accused of being Machiavellian in clearing his way to the throne by the elimination of opponents inside and outside the royal family. By Patrick Cockburn.

Myanmar says its crackdown was a response to terror attacks, but new evidence raises questions.

A day of celebration and overeating is for some a time of mourning and a testament to the strength of a culture. By Julie Turkewitz.

A guilty verdict against Ratko Mladic, who presided over siege warfare in Bosnia during the 1990s, carries a message on the crimes in Yemen today. By Peter Maass.

The pilgrims stole from graves, the Wampanoag were devastated by disease, and the peace between them was political. By Becky Little.

In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in legal racism—the United States. By Ira Katznelson.

This is the mass grave for the victims of the 1890 genocidal massacre of the Lakota at Wounded Knee. I assume that everyone knows the story of Wounded Knee, but maybe they don’t, so I guess I will lay it out. The short version is that the United States has committed unspeakable genocide against indigenous …

Canada and America may argue over who was the first to hold a harvest festival, but both countries’ approaches to the national holiday are similar. By Christine Sismondo.

The violence that shocked the world in 1994 did not come from nowhere. For years, violent Tutsi rebels, backed by Uganda in full knowledge of the CIA, had been preparing for war. By Helen C. Epstein.

More than 100,000 were dragged into these camps. Many never made it out alive. By Mark Oliver.

It’s fun genocide quiz time! By Alex Ruthrauff.

The Havasupai are attempting to fight back against the operation of a uranium mine that they say could contaminate their sole water source. By Joanna Walters.

It was crude stuff. President Trump called on 55 Muslim leaders assembled in Riyadh to drive out terrorism from their countries. He identified Iran as a despotic state and came near to calling for regime change, though Iran held a presidential election generally regarded as fair only two days previously. He denounced Hezbollah and lined up the US squarely on the side of the Sunni against the Shia in the sectarian proxy war that is tearing apart the Middle East. By Patrick Cockburn.