America Being Crushed by a Mountain of Escalating Debt
The U.S. and its citizens are inundated with massive debt as a nation, government, and society. It seems like an impossibility to get this issue under control, especially when a majority of funding goes directly to endless wars.
America’s war-fighting footprint in Africa
Secret U.S. military documents reveal a constellation of American military bases across that continent.
Preparing for doomsday
A shelter-in-place mentality Is the New American normal.
US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking...
It does no good tinkering around the edges of the war machine’s environmental impact.
Bearing witness to the costs of war
On being a military spouse and writing about our post-9/11 wars.
Failed States and States of Failure
We have no idea what it means at this point in history to turn a region, city by city, country by country, into something like a vast failed state and then continue to bomb the rubble.
Four Blackwater Operatives Sentenced to Prison for Committing Iraqi Massacre
“In killing and maiming unarmed civilians, these defendants acted unreasonably and without justification.” Blackwater contractors were sentenced yesterday for killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians and wounding 18 more in the 2007 Nisour Square massacre.
The two 500 lb. gorillas in the room
Who needs the super rich? I don’t. Do you?
Lawmakers reintroduce War Powers Resolution to end carnage in Yemen and reclaim Congress’ constitutional...
Both the House and Senate "should move swiftly to reassert [their] war powers and end U.S. support for this brutal, unconstitutional war."
Senate approves $738 billion for war budget
This defense bill is the most expensive in U.S. history and gives President Trump everything he would ever want.