Tag: war

A pathological president who can pardon convicted criminals or start a nuclear war poses a clear and present danger to the nation and the world.

Wednesday’s vote sets the stage for a possible final vote on the measure within days, and has been seen as a rebuke of President Trump’s handling of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

"The Senate will be able, for the first time, to debate and vote on a check on Trump's war-making in Yemen"

“This Senate vote should mark the beginning of the end of American complicity in the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.”

So there is more than a little poetic justice – or is it irony? – in General Abizaid’s proposed posting to Riyadh.

Noam Chomsky talks about the Central American caravan and national security adviser John Bolton declaring Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua to be part of a “troika of tyranny” and a “triangle of terror” earlier this month.

While we call for the closure of all U.S./NATO military bases, we consider the closure of bases and military installations in certain countries and areas as needing special attention by the international movement.

The cost of the global so-called war on terror will soon surpass $6 trillion.

“If you look for instance at the surges in Ku Klux Klan membership, they align more consistently with the return of veterans from combat and the aftermath of war than they do with anti-immigration, populism, economic hardship or any of the other factors that historians have typically used to explain them."

Still trapped in a greater Middle Eastern quagmire, the U.S. military prepares for global combat.