Friday, July 11, 2025

Tag: National security

Peace through strength?

“When it comes to security, when it comes to ISIS, when it comes to the military, every single category... I'm leading, like, by a lot." —Donald J. Trump

Exploring the shadows of America’s security state

Or how I learned not to love Big Brother.

A psychedelic spin on “national security”

The summer of surprisingly political love.

NSC head Flynn was brought down by the very spying machine...

Let’s also see this as a warning that the national security state has crossed a major line and needs to be unravelled.

Federal appeals court maintains block on Trump’s Muslim ban

The big question now is whether or not the Trump administration will appeal to the entire 9th Circuit Court of Appeals or ask the Supreme Court to intervene.

Out of Bounds, Off-Limits, or Just Plain Ignored

Six National Security questions Hillary, Donald, Ted, Marco, et al., don’t want to answer and won’t even be asked.

Mantra for 9/11

Fourteen years later and we are still living in an improbable world. Tom Engelhardt discusses the wars, interventions, assassinations, tortures, kidnappings, the growth of the American national security state and the spread of Islamic extremism.

Four Secret Service Assistant Directors Demoted Amid Scandals

Although acting Director Joseph Clancy demoted four assistant directors, they are now free to resign or report for new assignments within the Secret Service or its parent agency, DHS. Has the Secret Service suffered from a lack of leadership?

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A new far-right American party?

Elon Musk has disrupted Silicon Valley, the electric car industry, and the U.S. government. What is his next target: democracy?

Melting glaciers could lead to more frequent and explosive volcanic eruptions: Study

The process—already seen in Iceland—makes volcanic eruptions more frequent and powerful, according to new research conducted in the Chilean Andes.

The Texas flash flood is a preview of the chaos to come

Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

Israeli minister proposes forced confinement of all Palestinians in Gaza amid global war crime...

Defense Minister Israel Katz unveils plan to imprison entire Gazan population in a guarded camp as human rights groups warn of ethnic cleansing.

First, a massive Medicaid attack, then come the midterms, then Republican annihilation

Is this country under attack by an authoritarian enemy?