War

U.S. foreign military bases are NOT in defense of U.S. national, or global security.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex would allow such sanity to prevail.

Like his predecessors from Truman to Obama, Trump has been caught in the trap of America’s blind, deluded militarism.

The likelihood is that the crimes of Bush, Cheney, Libby and Rove so far revealed are only the tip of the iceberg.

“My first hope is that you will not be too discouraged by the way the world looks at this moment.”

As U.S. empire fades, so might the Monroe Doctrine come to an end.

To paraphrase one Middle Eastern prophet, the leadership and media of western countries need to remove the log from their own eye before they will ever be able to help the greater Middle East remove the splinter from its own.

Building a new anti-war movement that is connected to the domestic anti-police struggle is the only thing that can rein in U.S. militarism.

Where’s the 'democratic socialist' challenge to militarism?

The graphic images show dead Iraqi men, women and children, many of them shot in the head at close range.