Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Tag: endless war

Is the long war finally ending?

Withdrawing several thousand U.S. troops from Afghanistan is just the tip of the iceberg.

America’s longest war winds down

For one thing should be clear by now: over the course of the nation’s longest war, the American Century breathed its last.

Moving on from the War on Terror?

Checking in after six months...

War in Syria: 10 years and still counting

Despite a decade of battling and a wrecked country, al-Assad remains immovably in power on military help from Iran and Russia.

It’s almost twenty years since 9/11

Can we finally stop marching to disaster?

Spilling ink and spilling blood

Fighting and writing against America’s forever wars...

Ready or not, here they come

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

“The bleeding wound”

Osama bin Laden won (twice)...

We’re not the good guys

Why is American aggression missing in action?

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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?

The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.

Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press

The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues

Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...

What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?

Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...

A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.

Now you see them… now you don’t

Women leaders and Trump 2.0.