How the Gaza war can be big news and invisible at the same time
The horrors in Gaza are being propelled by the U.S. war machine, but you wouldn’t know it from the standard U.S. media.
Regional war feared as Biden backs Israel’s threat to retaliate after Iranian missile attack
The United States aided Israel in intercepting many of the Iranian missiles on Tuesday, and President Joe Biden has vowed to support Israel in further retaliation.
500 years is long enough! Human Depravity in the Congo
For more than 500 years, the Congo has been brutalized by the extraordinary violence inflicted by those who have treated the country as a resource – for slaves, rubber, timber, wildlife and minerals – to be exploited.
Insignia, badges, and medals for a climate-wracked era
The U.S. military on a planet from hell.
Duck Soup
To believe that our presidents have carte blanche to do the heinous deeds is foolish at best.
The problems and promise of the new Silk Roads
In a time when it seems we are constantly being divided from our common humanity, the symbolism of the new Silk Roads is important in and of itself.
The world according to the ‘adults in the room’
A year of forever war in review.
Where have you gone, Smedley Butler?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to (someone like) you...
Funding evil in Afghanistan (and beyond)
It may seem cynical to say so, but after almost 18 years of occupation, it sometimes seems that an entire country, one of the poorest in the world, has been turned into a kind of live fire training ground for U.S. and allied forces.
Biden’s 2024 funding proposal is a war budget and he is leading us to...
What does this have to do with "defense?"