War

The killings in Brussels or Paris and the killings in U.S. military strikes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria or Libya perpetuate the same dark lusts. The savage tit-for-tat game will not end until we rouse ourselves from our hypnotized state.

Belgium’s capital city of Brussels is on its highest alert as residents remain on lockdown. People are being told to stay away from their windows, and schools remain closed as police and soldiers carry out raids in the search for suspects in the Paris attacks ten days ago that killed 130 people.

Seventy-four years ago yesterday, the U.S. dropped the first-ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, a non-military target of several hundred...

What does this have to do with "defense?"

The fragile truce between Israel and Hamas faces uncertainty as Netanyahu’s government halts the release of 620 Palestinian prisoners, risking renewed violence.

In the future, the surest way to turn defeat into victory would be to avoid such needless wars.

The rationale for spending more than $700 billion a year on the Pentagon—and well over $1.2 trillion for national security writ large—simply does not exist.

Military families — most so much more than mine — have already suffered for far too long without watching our own country become a new war zone.

The attacks were used by interventionist pundits in English speaking countries as an excuse to postpone the end of the almost 20 year NATO occupation.

One refugee expressed hope "that the bombs stop. That the killing stops. And that we can go home again."