‘Escalation dominance’. . . and the prospect of more than 1,000 Holocausts
Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.”
Can warriors stop endless wars?
Whether they choose to speak out publicly or not, a striking number of them are now either antiwar or “war skeptical,” questioning whether some of our recent conflicts were faintly worth fighting in the first place.
A duck-and-cover world?
“We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history.”
The American cult of bombing and endless war
America’s wars are increasingly waged from the air, not on the ground, a reality that makes the prospect of ending them ever more daunting.
Over 17,500 Palestinian children killed as Israel systematically uses children as human shields
A year of catastrophic violence against Palestinian children amid systematic killings, starvation, and human shield tactics.
Working for a real mad man
The military stood up to Donald Trump. Who will now stand up to the military?
The oldest colony, the newest war: Puerto Rico as a launchpad for war on...
War drums beat louder towards Venezuela!
Activists rally in front of Trump Tower in Chicago to protest Syria missile strikes
When President Obama was faced with the same questions of intervention in 2013 after Assad and the Syrian government was accused of gassing its own people, many leading republicans came out and condemned a quick action.
Israel now occupies over half of Gaza as expanded buffer zone razes entire communities
Systematic destruction of homes, farmland, and infrastructure in Gaza buffer zone reveals deeper plan for permanent Israeli control, soldiers and experts say.
From the arsenal of democracy to an arsenal of genocide
Such is the pernicious price of pursuing a vision that insists on global reach, global power, and global dominance.