Tag: 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.

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry, fully engaged in corralling, containing, and constraining it, Eisenhower concluded, could save democracy and bolster peaceful methods and goals. 

The continuing influence of the neocons, who were the architects of U.S. aggression against Iraq, in the ever-escalating Western military response to Russian aggression against Ukraine.

"There's no reason—none—to have a war authorization against a strategic partner, and so that's the first reason why we need to do this."

Could Washington be in a Tizzy over nothing?

What propelled the United States to start the war on Iraq in March 2003 were dynamics of media and politics that are still very much with us today.

What does this have to do with "defense?"

Yes, it’s true, on the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, that war is long forgotten here.

President Biden and his coterie of neo-conservatives have no interest in peace if it means the U.S. concedes hegemonic power to a multi-polar world unbothered from the all-mighty dollar.

The winners are the opportunists and war profiteers, and the losers are the people of Ukraine, working and poor people everywhere, but especially in the Global South, and our fading hopes of halting the climate crisis.