Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Ukraine’s secret weapon may prove to be civilian resistance

Unarmed Ukrainians changing road signs, blocking tanks and confronting the Russian military are showing their bravery and strategic brilliance.

Russia’s underperforming military (and ours)

Putin’s plunge into Ukraine confirms that he learned nothing from the folly of post-9/11 U.S. military policy.

Ted Cruz’s Stone-Age Brain and Yours

Ted Cruz may be able to build up his poll numbers by promising to carpet bomb foreigners in the Middle East of whom we are fearful, but at least we know that biology doesn’t have to dictate our response. Our brains don’t have to stay in the Stone Age.

American carnage

Fighting the forever war.

Chaos in Syria, Part II – Destruction, ISIS and Beyond

“What we need is a Higher World Order where building nations is more profitable than destroying them; conducting fair trade with other nations is more mutually beneficial than occupying them and stealing their resources; and living in a multi-polar world is more peaceful and profitable than one nation hopelessly clinging on to a dangerous fantasy of a unipolar world.”
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100+ days into Israel’s war on Gaza, doctors demand ceasefire to address ‘apocalyptic’ health...

United Nations humanitarian leaders issued a joint demand Monday for dramatically increasing the flow of aid into Gaza.

The spoils of war: Trump lavished with media and bipartisan praise for bombing Syria

The one constant of American political life is that the U.S. loves war. Martin Luther King’s 1967 denunciation of the U.S. as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today” is more accurate than ever.

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.

Ready or not, here they come

A military spouse’s perspective on bringing the troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq.