Helsinki 2.0
The European security order has broken down. The conflict around Ukraine is a symptom of this larger problem.
What did we know
The role of an all-American Cassandra.
Friday’s Events: The Legacy and Rules of American Foreign Policy and 21 Questions for...
The United States is great at focusing on any sort of carnage and blaming ISIS, one of hundreds of groups in Syria, and building alliances with Sunni states.
Mulligan in Afghanistan
Trump applies the rules of his golf game to foreign policy.
Syria – What happens next
Without outside assistance, it will take decades to rebuild Syria.
Who is making a killing on killing?
As the saying goes, follow the money to find out who profits from all this death and devastation.
Congress needs to end war profiteering now
War is bad for nearly everyone. But as long as we allow the leaders of our privatized war economy to reap unlimited rewards, their profit motive for war in Iran — or anywhere — will persist.
The collapse of Michèle Flournoy’s hopes for the top Pentagon job shows what can...
War preparations that increase the likelihood of war may excite laptop warriors. But the militarism they promote is madness nonetheless.
Congressional amendment opens floodgates for war profiteers and a major ground war on Russia
After the catastrophic wars and ballooning U.S. military budgets of the past 25 years, we should be wise by now to the escalatory nature of the vicious spiral in which we are caught.
You Say ISIL, I Say ISIS, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
“Iraqis, now Syrians, and by extension even the Europeans who are now awash in refugees from the wars we help foment, and the US taxpayer, and, documented by a Brown University study, the US job seeker—these are the losers.”