War

Tough truths are desperately needed about America’s lost wars...

For one thing should be clear by now: over the course of the nation’s longest war, the American Century breathed its last.

Because the next wars were always here, looming. We just need the clarity to see them and the force to stop them before they begin.

U.S.-China near-war status report

But why have so many U.S. leaders, including President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Donald Trump, continued their unwavering support for the war?

At least 18 people were killed, including six workers from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), marking the deadliest single incident for UNRWA staff since Israel's military offensive began last October.

Many conservatives are currently criticizing NBC nightly news anchor Brian Williams for embellishing an experience he had at the beginning of the Iraq War. These same conservatives, however, continue idolizing Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush who “embellished” a lot of stories in wartime.

The one, in a vain effort to conceal his own ignorance, offers rambling nonsense. The other, accustomed to making her own rules, simply changes the subject.

When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.

Can art offer us a vision of our world, for the better or sometimes distinctly the worse, that brings it into a kind of cohesion we often don’t experience in our actual lives?