Peter Certo is the Communications Director of the Institute for Policy Studies. He edits its Foreign Policy In Focus and OtherWords services, contributes regularly to both outlets, and works with IPS experts to develop writing for mainstream and progressive publications.
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.
Hard data shows ending our wars would be smart politics — and the first step toward repairing a moral calamity.
Democrats need to take Trump’s crimes against people and the planet as seriously as those against Joe Biden.
Trump’s not the only one terrified of these four congresswomen — leading Democrats apparently are, too.
My two-year old child will be the age I am now when the climate catastrophe comes, and that realization is taking a toll.
Trump’s recent moves encouraging war crimes rather than prosecuting them do a disservice to service members.
Leading Democrats treated Russia as Trump’s worst crime, even sprinkling in some neo-Cold War rhetoric, while dismissing movements doing the real work of resistance.
Collusion with corporations has always been hiding in plain sight. It takes real people to fight that — not an elite prosecutor.
Do we think people who armed death squads and started wars really want to “bring democracy” to Venezuela?
Maybe you didn’t notice before Colin Kaepernick took a knee, but the NFL has been deeply politicized for years.
The president is going to demonize the media no matter what they do. So why not do the right thing?
The outgoing House speaker’s entire career was a cash grab for billionaires, capped off by a low trick to literally starve children.
New debates, especially on overlooked subjects, bring new vibrancy to our civic life. In death, even flawed politicians can do us that final service.
Republicans banked this election on lies, fear-mongering, and rule-rigging. It almost worked.
Our government would look a lot different if the 4.5 million Americans in non-voting territories like D.C. and Puerto Rico has a voice.
They admit Trump’s dangerous, but they’ll stick with him as long as he cuts billionaires’ taxes, deregulates corporations, and feeds the military-industrial complex.
The “straight talk” people praise McCain for is actually what most of them can’t stand about politicians: They say noble words but cast ignoble votes.
The media treated Trump’s petty snub of John McCain as a bigger controversy than the $717 billion Pentagon bill named for the Arizona senator.
The court’s been popping off far-right proclamations like a drunk uncle at Thanksgiving.
The newest plank of immigration enforcement? Piling children into overcrowded detention centers.
Trump rallied to save a major Chinese firm right in the middle of a trade war of his own making. Why?