House passes $740 billion defense bill amid the major struggles of the pandemic
“In the midst of a pandemic—as people across the country struggle to make rent, to pay their bills, to survive a deadly disease—it should be unthinkable.”
A depleted military? No, it’s truth that’s depleted…
The real problem we face has nothing to do with military weakness or depletion or under-spending on national security.
Iraqi Kurdistan: Setting the stage for a new war in the Middle East?
Several NATO countries, including Canada and the United States have special forces soldiers deployed in the region.
America’s disastrous 60-year war
Democracy may indeed be in the process of meeting its demise.
Will the Trump administration move to use space weapons?
“What the U.S. is up to will destabilize the world.”
That other war
This conflict will not be televised.
The high stakes of the US-Russia confrontation over Ukraine
The U.S. must step back from the brink of a U.S.-Russia war, and then from the larger Cold War with China and Russia that they have so blindly and foolishly stumbled into.
Who’s in control of how we remember the Iraq War?
“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” --Viet Thanh Nguyen
Will Americans let Trump start World War III for Saudi Arabia and Israel?
On Saturday, September 14th, two oil refineries and other oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia were hit and set ablaze by 18 drones...
An empire of nothing at all?
The U.S. military takes us through the gates of hell.









