Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Jeffrey Cavanaugh is a former MintPress political analyst and columnist specializing in international relations and US policy. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations, specializing in International Security and Conflict. He has worked as a political science and public administration lecturer at Mississippi State University.

The Pope Is Anti-War And Pro-Palestinian. Are Catholics?

Pope Francis articulates a vision of social justice and compassion that necessarily upsets power and privilege.by Jeffrey Cavanaugh

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Pope Francis prays at Israel's aparthied wall on his way to a mass in Manger Square next to the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Sunday, May 25, 2014.

On July 27, Pope Francis marked the centenary of the official beginning of the First World War with a solemn call to the world to not repeat the mistakes of the past. Dialogue, Francis told those gathered at St. Peter’s Square, was the solution -- not more war. Citing words uttered by another pope -- Benedict XV -- a century ago, he begged for

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The Slow Death Of Nuclear Power

Six decades ago, the head of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission forecast an era of electricity that would be “too cheap to meter,” so what happened?

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The Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Lewis Strauss noted in a 1954 speech to the National Association of Science Writers that the splitting of the atom and the dawn of the Atomic Age heralded, in his view, a coming era of electrical power that for consumers would be “too cheap to meter.” Soon, he said, “it would not be too much to

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Elizabeth Warren’s 11 Commandments

Everybody’s eyes are on Hillary Clinton, but Elizabeth Warren might be the one Democrats should be watching if a golden calf is what they hope to avoid.

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In one scene from the 1956 Bible epic “The Ten Commandments,” a photogenic, pre-NRA Charlton Heston, playing the role of Moses, appears to his people after hearing the Lord up on Mt. Sinai. Depressingly, he finds his people worshipping a golden calf in an orgy of decadent self-indulgence, wherein, in their fear, they abandon Yahweh for a new god

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In Saudi Arabia, A Generational Game Of Thrones

For the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s geriatric rulers, there may be no better time than the present to secure the future, which is slipping ever faster out of their grip.

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This past spring the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia experienced an unusual occurrence in its staid and usually boring politics. On March 27, King Abdullah , the 89-year-old reigning king, promulgated a royal decree establishing not only his own heir but that of the next king as well. Accordingly, after Abdullah passes, Saudi Arabia’s next king will be

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America’s Forecast: More Right-Wing Terror

Huge demographic, cultural and economic changes are coming, and it’s not clear how America’s white, Christian, culturally-rural masses may respond.

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FBI Raid Minnesota

Many in the United States have been transfixed by goings-on abroad over the course of the past week. In eastern Ukraine, a passenger airliner carrying 289 people was shot out of the sky by pro-Russian militants using advanced surface-to-air missiles, and in Gaza, the latest confrontation between Israel and Hamas has led to the deaths of hundreds of

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America’s #1 In Oil — But It Doesn’t Really Matter

We may be producing more than ever and more than everyone else, but that doesn’t mean long-term energy security at home.

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Right on America’s Independence Day it was announced by Bank of America energy number crunchers that the United States will this year surpass Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s larger producer of oil. According to the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank, U.S. production of crude oil, along with liquids separated from natural gas,

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Central American Child Refugees: Made In The USA

What’s missing from the debate on the child refugee crisis unfolding on our southern border, is that it’s the United States’ fault these children have to flee.

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They came by the thousands. Ejected by a country that did not want them and accused of carrying out the most vicious crimes imaginable, they flooded their new home and brought with them a host of social problems that completely overwhelmed the resources of the country they had been forced to enter. It was all but a matter of time before their

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