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U.S.-backed Israeli military kills American citizen in Lebanon amid growing evacuation...
The death of Dearborn resident Kamel Ahmad Jawad, an American citizen, in an Israeli airstrike highlights the U.S. administration’s failure to evacuate citizens from Lebanon and underscores the escalating humanitarian toll of U.S.-supported Israeli military actions.
From the arsenal of democracy to an arsenal of genocide
Such is the pernicious price of pursuing a vision that insists on global reach, global power, and global dominance.
The New Yorker publishes 2005 Haditha, Iraq massacre photos Marines ‘didn’t...
The graphic images show dead Iraqi men, women and children, many of them shot in the head at close range.
The military-industrial complex is killing us all
Bombs injure. Bombs kill. Bombs destroy. Bombs also make people rich.
Round table on current US foreign policy: Militarism unhinged
How would you assess the most important aspects of current U.S. foreign policy?
American taxpayers foot $5,000 bill each for militarism
The analysis disclosed that a staggering $2,974 of the average taxpayer's income was funneled directly to the Pentagon.
Daring to ‘look a sacred cow in the teeth’
Making major cuts to military spending would increase U.S. national security.
Reviving oversight: Sanders targets war profiteers draining US coffers
This bipartisan congressional panel, formed during World War II, was instrumental in overseeing military contracts and reining in defense contractors who profited at the expense of American taxpayers.
War is bad for you—and the economy
The military-industrial complex will have yet another never-ending claim on our scarce national resources.
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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.