Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Tag: U.S. Military

What would real ‘national defense’ look like?

The three maxims for a newly progressive Pentagon.

Backers of endless war deplore that many Trump supporters favor using...

Are some of Trump’s true believers are eager to adapt the violent precepts of perpetual war to American politics?

‘The greatest fighting force in human history’

A most exceptional military makes its wars and their ugliness disappear.

How America can better care for its veterans

Veterans deserve a system of care that serves them as reliably as they did the nation.

Report shows how military industrial complex sets media narrative on Ukraine

A recent report from the Quincy Institute (6/1/23) demonstrates just how much influence war profiteers have on the national discourse.

The patriotism of killing and being killed

Why are patriotism and war so intertwined in U.S. media and politics?

The wars we don’t (care to) see

It couldn’t be more important to make America’s disastrous wars of this century more visible.

The army we don’t see

The private world that our post-9/11 conflicts have bred.

Leaks reveal reality behind US propaganda in Ukraine

Like in previous U.S. wars, the veil of propaganda is unraveling around a senseless and unnecessary war that is killing a generation of young Ukrainians.

To hell and back

It is time to set in motion policies that would uplift veterans instead of pouring yet more staggering sums into a military that’s only sent so many of us to hell and back in this century?

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The Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. Photo: Another Believer / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy

The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
The Melrose Gate at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles. Photo: Chris Brown (zoonabar) / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
The Knesset, Israel's parliament building, in Jerusalem. Photo: Gary Todd, via Wikimedia Commons

Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?

New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Photo: FEMA/Bill Koplitz, via Wikimedia Commons

The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...

If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
A press briefing at the White House. Photo: The White House

Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico

The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.