Can the world’s second superpower rise from the ashes of twenty years of war?
The peace movement’s small victories demonstrate that we have more power to challenge U.S. militarism than most Americans realize.
How war divides us
What are the ways the twenty-first-century wars have polarized Americans?
How long can America maintain a war economy?
The major challenge for the United States is the perennial trade-off between guns and butter.
Candidates for 2015’s “Hypocrite of the Year”
There are so many candidates. But the people included here stand out in their various areas of nefarious behavior: warmaking, tax avoidance, consumer gouging, environmental destruction, and criminal arrogance.
US news falsely reports that North Korea threatened to nuke US
In case it isn’t clear that U.S. News & World Report is misinforming readers with a ridiculous interpretation.
Imperial detritus
Henry Luce's dream comes undone.
Eight Americans Killed by CIA Drone Strikes
A U.S. drone strike recently executed eight U.S. citizens without due process. With more than 3,852 casualties in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, why does the Obama administration continue to allow the CIA to operate signature strikes with impunity?
Polio strikes Gaza: A 10-month-old’s paralysis amidst siege highlights humanitarian crisis
The child was born around the time last year that Israel ordered a total blockade on all humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Investigation: As US-backed war in Yemen raged, UAE hired US mercenaries to kill Yemeni...
“There was a targeted assassination program in Yemen. I was running it.”
Energy Wars of Attrition
In the end, the oil attrition wars may lead us not into a future of North American triumphalism, nor even to a more modest Saudi version of the same, but into a strange new world in which an unlimited capacity to produce oil meets an increasingly crippled capitalist system without the capacity to absorb it.