The Anti-Empire Report #160: William Blum takes on the Washington Post again
William Blum takes on the Washington Post again, in the person of columnist Max Boot, formerly of the Wall Street Journal
Gaza’s unthinkable tragedy: Newborns abandoned, 90 percent casualties civilians
Decomposing newborns and civilian deaths raise questions about U.S. policy on Gaza.
A New Memorial Day Tradition — Burning The Confederate Flag
"Burn and bury" kits that allow people to print out their own Confederate flag at home, suitable for burning.
How a Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower
Even in troubled Afghanistan, there are alternatives whose sum could potentially slice through this Gordian knot of a policy problem.
Commandos Sans Frontières
The global growth of U.S. special operations forces.
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.
Bernie leads bipartisan effort to end US involvement in Saudi war in Yemen
In a recent letter to the chairmen and ranking members of the armed service committees in the U.S. House and Senate, Sen....
Weapons for anyone
Has Donald Trump become this country’s assassin-in-chief with impressive alacrity?
Can the Pentagon win when putsch comes to shove?
A rare pentagon “success” story.
Mosul on my mind
What it really means to be on a “flattening” planet.