Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Another oil spill, fracking fuels climate change, Mueller investigates Blackwater founder Erik Prince, and more.
Too easily forgotten: The tragedy of Yemen
The ugly face of this senseless war, as in most contemporary conflicts involving large aerial campaigns, is often hidden behind closed doors.
Imperial president or emperor with no clothes?
Could Donald Trump’s trade wars lead to a Great Depression?
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, June 20, 2018
U.S. withdraws from Human Rights Council, Canada legalizes recreational marijuana, first ladies unite against family separation at the border, and more.
Infinite war
The gravy train rolls on.
Funding evil in Afghanistan (and beyond)
It may seem cynical to say so, but after almost 18 years of occupation, it sometimes seems that an entire country, one of the poorest in the world, has been turned into a kind of live fire training ground for U.S. and allied forces.
War and the imperial presidency
Congress offers a bipartisan blank check to Donald Trump.
President Trump’s war crime is worse than the one he accuses Assad of
'Mine is bigger!'
The dolls of militarism
From war hawks to chickenhawks.
The US war in Iraq: 15 years and counting … the dead and displaced
Fifteen years after the calamitous invasion of Iraq, those who precipitated the war still walk free.