A Force Unto Itself
A military force effectively unaccountable to the people tears at the very fabric of the Constitution, which is at pains to mandate firm and complete control over the military by Congress, acting in the people’s name.
Nearly 500 More U.S. Troops Sent to Iraq for Mosul Attack in Advance of...
“It seems a little unlikely that PM al-Abadi cares about U.S. electoral problems. He has his own reasons for wanting to roll up al-Qaeda in Iraq quickly. But his timetable could play into Hillary Clinton’s hands.”
Media silence as Venezuela sits on verge of revolution
Venezuela, a country with only $10 billion left in reserves to run on, is in trouble.
Destabilizing the Middle East (yet more)
The Saudi Regime is playing Donald Trump with potentially disastrous consequences.
Could Trump’s threat to “totally destroy North Korea” launch a war crime?
What more needs to be said, by anyone, about potential, world-wide Trump disruption?
The economic consequences of the war
Ukraine’s economic losses and the outside assistance that country will need ever to achieve anything resembling what once passed for normal are staggering.
Ex-US Army major who resigned over Gaza warns against Biden sending 100 US troops...
This marks the first significant deployment of American troops to Israel since the beginning of its assault on Gaza, though the U.S. has spent an estimated tens of billions of dollars on the Israeli military and related operations.
The challenges and strengths of Palestine’s ‘orchestra’ of civil resistance
How can your way of participating in a movement confront rather than reinforce the patterns of privilege and oppression that already exist between these identity groups?
Watching my students turn into soldiers of empire
A new generation of west pointers joins America’s hopeless wars.
War is making us poor!
Why is it that the U.S. spends more on military than the next 9 countries combined?