Friday, April 26, 2024

A veteran in a world of never-ending wars and improvised explosive devices

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse…

‘Total massacre’ as U.S. drone strike kills 30 farmers in Afghanistan

Amnesty International said the bombing "suggests a shocking disregard for civilian life."

Why ending the Afghan war won’t end the killing

The imperial debris of war.

The threat of Bolton has receded — but not the threat of war

The national security adviser entered the Trump administration as a predictable warmonger with an unslakable thirst for power. He streamlined the national...

Why on Earth would the US go to war with Iran over an attack...

President Bone Spur, backed by his warmongering Secretary of State Mike “Armageddon” Pompeo, tweeted yesterday that the U.S. military is “locked and...

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...

The ‘official secrets’ movie vs. Joe Biden’s lies about the Iraq war

Joe Biden’s recent efforts to deny his record of support for invading Iraq are marvels of evasion, with falsehoods that have been refuted by one well-documented...

The ultra-costly, underwhelming F-35 fighter

Lockheed Martin remains top gun in the Pentagon's cockpit.

Recalling the hundreds of thousands of civilian victims of America’s endless ‘war on terror’

It’s time we as a nation gave some thought to and did some penance for all those civilian deaths and combatant deaths as we remember 9-11.

Reflections on “peace” in Afghanistan

When the conflict that the Vietnamese refer to as the American War ended in April 1975, I was a U.S. Army captain...