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Peter Certo

Peter Certo is the editorial manager of the Institute for Policy Studies. He edits its Foreign Policy In Focus and OtherWords services and coaches writing in the New Economy Maryland Fellowship program. He’s a former associate editor of Right Web, a project that monitors efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy, and helped coordinate the first annual Global Day of Action on Military Spending.His writings have appeared in The Nation, The Washington Spectator, The Washington Examiner, and The Kansas City Star, among many other outlets. He’s also the coauthor of a chapter in the Verso collection The Wikileaks Files.

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Iran
A Renewed Yemen Truce Is No Substitute for Justice

A Renewed Yemen Truce Is No Substitute for Justice

Peter Certo

By Peter Certo | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The news that Saudi officials, who have been leading a bombing campaign in Yemen for eight years, met with the Houthi officials who control much of the country on April 9 to possibly renew a truce that ended in October is positive. But […]

Bush
20 Years On, What Did the Iraq War Truly Cost?

20 Years On, What Did the Iraq War Truly Cost?

Peter Certo

By Peter Certo | – ( Otherwords.org) – The war claimed more than lives and treasure — it claimed a future’s worth of lost opportunities. Now, younger generations are demanding them back. By Peter Certo | Most of us who were alive then remember where we were on the morning of the 9/11 attacks. As […]

Authoritarianism
Why isn’t US Media Screaming that the Republican Party Is Now Openly Against Democracy?

Why isn’t US Media Screaming that the Republican Party Is Now Openly Against Democracy?

Peter Certo

( Otherwords.org ) – If you’re the sort of person who follows the news, you’ve probably heard a good bit lately about podcaster Joe Rogan, Neil Young’s fight with Spotify, and maybe a little about Russia and Ukraine. All that’s good grist for the mill. But did you also hear former President Trump admit that […]

Left Politics
A Few Magnificent Things That Happened in 2021

A Few Magnificent Things That Happened in 2021

Peter Certo

By Peter Certo | – ( Otherwords.org) – It would be easy to survey the end of 2021 and see another year in wreckage. There’s the pandemic that won’t end. Rising inflation. Climate disasters. A democracy that looks creakier by the day. And that was before West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin hit the brakes on […]

Epidemics
How Greed is Prolonging the Pandemic – Unless the World is Vaccinated, Variants will Keep Emerging

How Greed is Prolonging the Pandemic – Unless the World is Vaccinated, Variants will Keep Emerging

Peter Certo

( Otherwords.org) – Stop me if this sounds familiar. It’s been kind of a hard year, but I felt optimistic about the holidays. My wife and I had just scheduled our COVID-19 boosters. Even better, we’d been able to get our young child vaccinated. We imagined a cautious return to simple family pleasures like indoor […]

Afghanistan
Why Biden Is Right to End the War in Afghanistan

Why Biden Is Right to End the War in Afghanistan

Peter Certo

Now our obligation is to those Afghans living with the consequences of our four decades of intervention

African-Americans
We Can Have the Filibuster or Democracy, But Not Both

We Can Have the Filibuster or Democracy, But Not Both

Peter Certo

By Peter Certo | ( Otherwords.org) – The American political system is complicated, but fixing it doesn’t have to be. Voters of all stripes broadly agree on the kinds of changes they’d like to see. We need less money in politics. It should be easier to vote — early, in person, or by mail. And […]

Donald Trump
No Trump ‘Blue Collar Boom’:  1/2 of Americans work Low-Wage Jobs and Manufacturing is in Decline

No Trump ‘Blue Collar Boom’: 1/2 of Americans work Low-Wage Jobs and Manufacturing is in Decline

Peter Certo

(Otherwords.org) – Trump is counting on the working class he’s betraying most aggressively. Can the left get out of affluent suburbia and back to its roots? By Peter Certo | February 5, 2020 There’s an image burned into my brain from childhood: the graffitied train tracks along the intersection of Fifth and Patterson in downtown […]

Constitution
Impeach Trump for his Crimes against the People, not just Against the Bidens & Dems

Impeach Trump for his Crimes against the People, not just Against the Bidens & Dems

Peter Certo

(Afterwords.org) – Democrats need to take Trump’s crimes against people and the planet as seriously as those against Joe Biden. “Has Trump finally gone too far?” There’s a headline you’ve seen a thousand times. At last, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says he has. A whistleblower says Trump withheld foreign aid to Ukraine to pressure the country’s […]

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