Sports can distract us (but not enough)
It’s now all Trumpiana all the time.
Worth dying for?
When it comes to the war in the Greater Middle East, maybe we’re the bad guys.
Serial killers and dopes
Like lemmings running over the cliff of reason, our fellow American dopes may never learn!
How Ukrainian civilians are resisting military force
https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2022/03/01/ukraine-civilian-resistanceEven as Putin’s swift invasion of Ukraine has left a lot of shock, Ukrainians are showing what unarmed people can do to resist, too.
From Drone Strikes to Black Sites, How US Foreign Policy Runs Under a Cloak...
For years, the U.S. did not even publicly acknowledge the existence of the drone strikes. This, among other foreign policy issues, brings about the debate over our national security and secrecy.
The War of the Turkish Deep States
Many Turks believe, rightly or wrongly, that US intelligence knew in advance what would happen on July 15th and didn’t warn the country’s political leaders.
The return of American race laws
Bannon knows no more about war’s reality than he sees in Hollywood movies.
Sorry for Killing Your Son, CIA Tells Drone Strike Victim’s Family During Unprecedented Meeting
For years they have refused to release details of the strikes, fighting successive court cases brought by relatives of strike victims and by civil liberties groups.
Talon Anvil, Task Force 9 and the terrible cost of the air offensive in...
Subsidizing militarism in search of monsters overseas seems more and more like the American way. With the new focus on near peer competitors like Russia and China, the dangers are only growing.
8th baby freezes to death in Gaza, as Israeli forces fire on World Food...
The displaced Palestinians have been living in tents made of cloth and nylon, due to the scarcity of essentials such as water and food.