Friday, October 23, 2026

Pentagon Excess Has Fueled a Civil-Military Crisis

We must ask whether an institution, the military, supposedly endowed with supernal character by objective circumstances, is to master us, or we to master it by determining for ourselves what it properly is and does.

U.S. Government Wasted $231 Million on Failed Missile Defense Program

Although Congress approved another year of funding, PTSS was officially killed off on October 1, 2013, after spending $231 million on the doomed program.

Blowback 2026

The Price of Empire and the costs of War on Iran.

Genocide made invisible

A bilateral policy of genocide has united the Israeli and U.S. governments in a pact of literally breath-taking cruelty.

War, forever and a day

Who gains and who loses in Trump's America?

Memory loss in the garden of violence

How Americans remember (and forget) their wars.

Israeli ministers’ shocking call for mass expulsion: Gaza faces threat of forced eviction

Ben-Gvir's statements have brought attention to the plight of the area's population, severely affected by a three-month bombing campaign that has displaced approximately 90 percent of the territory’s residents.
The United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York. Photo: Patrick Gruban, cropped and downsampled by Pine / CC BY-SA 2.0

A Divided Vote for the UN’s Human Rights Chief

Ten states, including the US, Russia and Israel, opposed reappointing Volker Turk, whose office faces its own budget crisis as he begins a second term.

Republican Candidates Defend Killing Civilians to Fight Terrorism — and so do Democrats

For a number of years now, prominent Democrats have also been advocating very dangerous ideas, with Democratic leaders also defending the large-scale killing of civilians in the name of "fighting terrorism."

Media largely ignored Gaza famine when there was time to avert mass starvation

Major U.S. media, likewise, bear a share of responsibility for the hunger-related deaths in Gaza.