US INF pullout will delight arms industry as it threatens to reignite Cold War
The reality is that it has largely been the U.S. that has been the aggressor through the terrifying and costly decades of the Cold War that this latest treaty exit action threatens to re-ignite.
How Bashar al-Assad’s Regime Came Back in the Syrian Civil War in 2014
There is a maintained fiction that the U.S.' 2014 bombing raids against Daesh and al-Qaeda do not help the regime, but rather the moderate rebels. In actuality, they help the regime.
Ready or not, here they come
A military spouse’s perspective on bringing the troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq.
Beyond ISIS
For a rich and powerful nation to conclude that it has no choice but to engage in quasi-permanent armed conflict in the far reaches of the planet represents the height of folly. Power confers choice.
Latest US War Crime is the Murderous Destruction of a Hospital in Afghanistan
The best statement President Obama could come up with after the U.S. bombed and destroyed a hospital in Afghanistan, killing innocent civilians and volunteer doctors from Doctors Without Borders, was “We’re sorry”? This is why the rest of the world hates the U.S.
Profit maximization is easy: Invest in violence
More violence leads to more fear making it easier to gain greater social control to inflict more violence….
The struggle for peace in Afghanistan: Is community engagement the key?
I have just read a superb book by Mark Isaacs, an Australian who has documented several years of effort by a group...
Remote warfare and expendable people
Since September 2001, the United States has been fighting its “war on terror”—what’s now referred to as this country’s “Forever Wars.”
Report from Gaza: Israel attacks schools & orders Palestinians to leave Gaza City amid...
An Israeli airstrike killed at least 30 Palestinians at a school housing displaced people near Khan Younis, mostly women and children.
Top 10 signs that Israeli Gov’t is starving people in Gaza
There isn’t enough food in the Strip, and Israeli authorities are actively preventing the massive food stockpiles on the border from entering.








