Will the Trump administration move to use space weapons?
“What the U.S. is up to will destabilize the world.”
U.S. airstrikes killed 230 civilians in Mosul overnight
Over 130 civilians were killed in attack on a single building in western Mosul.
How the US could provoke a new Korean War
The bare bones of a deal with North Korea may exist, but senseless provocations could set off a conflict long before then.
Conspiracy of silence
Sadly, today it seems as if most of our 20 somethings and their parents do not even know what is going down. The Conspiracy of Silence is winning!
I still can’t get no satisfaction
I can't get no satisfactionI can't get me no satisfactionAnd I try and I try and I try t-t-t-t-try tryI can't get...
The Pentagon budget still rising, 40 years later
The rationale for spending more than $700 billion a year on the Pentagon—and well over $1.2 trillion for national security writ large—simply does not exist.
Gen. John Campbell, Commander in Afghanistan and Serial Liar
Head of US forces in Afghanistan Gen. Campbell continues string of lies about US gunship attack that destroyed Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, claiming it was a case of 'mistaken targeting', but history of US hospital bombings belies his assertion that the US 'doesn't intentionally bomb hospitals.'
Writing History Before It Happens
With an emphasis on the U.S. national security state and its follies, Tom Engelhardt explores nine repeat headlines, each a "surefire" news story guaranteed to appear sometime in the U.S. news stream between June 2015 and the unknown future.
Why were the Saudi streets so quiet?
While Mexicans pour out on the streets to protest Trump’s anti-immigrant policies, there was nary a Saudi protester chanting “Trump: Go home.”
Trump admin continues threats & provocations against North Korea, laying groundwork for nuclear war
Tensions between North Korea and the United States have been building after a series of nuclear and missile tests by Pyongyang and intense verbal exchanges between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.