Sunday, April 28, 2024

Tag: war

Shrinking the Pentagon

Will the Biden administration dare cut military spending?

Rejecting Michèle Flournoy, progressives demand Biden pick Pentagon chief ‘untethered’ from...

"The power progressives hold must be wielded now before it's too late, before Flournoy is crowned and the U.S. slips further into decline..."

A good deed from the wicked witch?

Actually ending the war in Afghanistan...

Hey Joe, where you going with that Pentagon in your hands?

If past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, there are ample reasons for apprehension about the top of the military and foreign-policy team that Biden has begun to install for his presidency.

Ethiopia: Death and despair as divisions erupt into violent conflict

Ethiopians are killing one another in the Tigray region of the country where an armed conflict is raging between the Ethiopian military and forces loyal to the regional government.

A Washington echo chamber for a New Cold War

War: what is it good for? Apparently, in Washington’s world of think tanks, the answer is: the bottom line.

BlackRock stakeholders do not consent to bankrolling violence

As BlackRock has boisterously taken up the mantle of sustainable investing, it must do more to shepherd us into a peace-based economy.

Effective January 1, 2021 nuclear weapons will be illegal

50th country ratifies UN treaty banning nuclear weapons!

Talking tough and carrying a radioactive stick

The nuclearization of American diplomacy...

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Are presidents above the law?

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