Creative Commons/The U.S. Army Where does Obama stand on military policy? While he escalated the war in Afghanistan, he also withdrew American troops from Iraq and ended the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” mistreatment of gays and lesbians. Here, U.S. and Afghan forces assemble in Ghazni More

A child marches to the Separation Wall in Bil’in, taking part in a nonviolent protest against Israeli military attacks on civilians in July 2006. Credit: Creative Commons/Michael.Loadenthal. A child marches to the Separation Wall in Bil’in, taking part in a nonviolent protest against Israeli More

Egyptian demonstrators in Cairo’s Tahrir Square seek human rights and democracy to replace the Mubarak-led military dictatorship in February 2011. The peaceful demonstrators were brutally attacked by Mubarak-inspired thugs and plainclothes members of the Mubarak security forces. Egyptian More

In an attempt to gain hegemony in the Middle East, the United States has given military, financial, political, and intelligence aid to vicious dictators throughout the region, the author writes. Credit: Truthout.org/Night Owl City. In an attempt to gain hegemony in the Middle East, the United More

Creative Commons/United States Marine Corps The nonstop trauma of basic training orients young military recruits toward patriarchy and aggression. Here, a twenty-year-old machine gunner practices shooting in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Creative Commons/United States Marine Corps. / The nonstop trauma More

“Nonviolence demands that we pressure Israel to stop prosecuting Palestinian children in military courts and agitate for an end to the criminalization of children of color in the United States,” Gottlieb writes. Jerusalem, 2014 by Nabil Anani. Nabil Anani ( nabilanani.net ) “Nonviolence More

Close to 40 percent of children in many areas of the West Bank struggle with PTSD, the author writes. Here, a child perches in a car destroyed by an August 2006 Israeli military incursion into the Askar Refugee Camp, during which two homes were bulldozed. Credit: Creative Commons/Michael.Loadenthal More

Creative Commons/Department of Defense The third great resurgence of the American Left took place in the 1960s, with the emergence of the civil rights, feminist, and anti-war movements. Here, a demonstrator offers a flower to a military police officer in 1967. Creative Commons/Department of More

her four children and elderly mother, at the same time that her husband was sentenced by a military tribunal to death by hanging. Is restorative justice able to address harms on the scale of genocide and white supremacy? Reuben Wambdi Kitto Jr. / The biannual Dakota Commemorative March retraces the More