Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Tag: militarization

Judge halts Trump’s Portland troop plan as governors warn of martial...

Federal judge Karin Immergut blocks National Guard deployments to Oregon and beyond as the White House escalates rhetoric and appeals the ruling.

The potential dark side of the militarization of Gulf societies

It remains to be seen whether military service will ultimately narrow or broaden social gaps.

The wars no one notices

Are we all just living in a demobilized country?

Regime change fails: Is a military coup or invasion of Venezuela...

The U.S. is laying the groundwork for war against Venezuela.

The light at the end of the corner

Bad as things are right now, experience tells us – or at least our military commanders swear to it – that they’ll get better sooner or later.

The war that never ends (for the US military high command)

And it’s not the War on Terror!

War pay

Here is what the coming boom years are likely to look like for the Pentagon, the arms makers, and their weaponry.

Time to call out US militarism for what it is: The...

The evidence clearly shows that national security is far better achieved by intelligent diplomacy than by war.

The empire comes home

Counterinsurgency, policing, and the militarization of America’s cities.

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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.