Monday, October 26, 2026

Why does Donald Trump insist on more military spending?

Americans are tired of war, yet Donald Trump’s budget sends an unfortunate but clear message.

Trump fiddles while the Korean crisis moves closer to igniting a massive war

While Trump tweets, North Korea successfully completes another test of an ICBM.

Time to stop modernizing America’s nukes and to start negotiating peace

Building more atomic bomb triggers is the ‘pits.’

America’s disastrous 60-year war

Democracy may indeed be in the process of meeting its demise.

Endangered and dangerous Israel, endangering Jews

What effect on Jews elsewhere from manifestly wrong or immoral actions of the state?

Brink of conflict: Escalating tensions in Middle East following Iran blasts

Tensions rise in Kerman: Middle East edges closer to conflict amidst blasts and accusations.

$45 billion: The cost of the war in Afghanistan in 2018

2018 will mark the 17th year of the Afghanistan war.

House panel approves $37.5 billion military budget increase for 2022

“A day after the United States withdrew from one of the most costly wars in history, the absolute LAST thing congressional representatives should be doing is increasing the Pentagon budget.”

Personal interview: Lt. Col. William J. Astore What are the Prospects for Peace?

We speak with William J. Astore, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, about his ideas for improving the prospects for peace.

Making America’s wars great again

The Pentagon portrays a powerful need to think of ourselves as a righteous, just, and successful country that fights only righteous, just, and successful wars.