Tag: U.S. Military
‘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.
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?
Ukraine and the lessons of the Iraq War
Only those who have failed to learn the lessons of the Iraq War would fail to make the same demand of Russia as a prerequisite for a just peace today.
Merger mania in the military-industrial complex
Pentagon waste is a longstanding issue in desperate need of meaningful action.
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The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
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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?
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.