Wednesday, May 1, 2024

How long can America maintain a war economy?

The major challenge for the United States is the perennial trade-off between guns and butter.

Gaza’s unseen crisis: Tens of thousands of children and pregnant women drinking contaminated water

Why has the global community been slow to react to this water crisis?

Tehran, USA

Fighting fundamentalism in the U.S.

The US and Russia are playing chicken with nuclear weapon

While the current administration seems to run on uncontrollable testosterone, the problem of nuclear weapons didn’t start with them, even its immediate predecessor helped to bring about this impasses.

Tween boys and the fate of the world?

Seriously, humankind, what are we going to do?

The legacy of infinite war

Special ops, generational struggle, and the Cooperstown of commandos.

Israel’s military is part of the US war machine

As the carnage in Gaza continues, Washington is rushing to provide extra military assistance worth $14 billion.

Destroying Raqqa in order to save it

The devastation of Raqqa was not covered in the English language press with the same vigor as the earlier battle for Aleppo.

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda

Maybe if we stopped claiming that we were the greatest, most exceptional, most indispensable nation ever and that the U.S. military was the finest fighting force in the history of the world, both we and the world might be better off and modestly more peaceful.

A wide world of winless war

Globe-trotting U.S. special ops forces already deployed to 137 nations in 2017.