Tag: war

Could the U.S. and China face an unintended blowup in the Western Pacific in the Biden years?

For one thing should be clear by now: over the course of the nation’s longest war, the American Century breathed its last.

A national government that represents corporations and routinely lies to its voters needs Silicon Valley and the corporate press to maintain a stranglehold over the dissemination of information.

The Biden administration is bending rules to drop bombs but not raise wages. That’s a mistake.

The world has yet to denounced the primary arms merchants for the more than 100,000 killings since 2015—despite accusations of “war crimes” by human rights organizations.

President Biden cannot restore the world’s respect for American leadership, or the American public’s support for our foreign policy, by piling more lies, secrets and atrocities on top of those he has inherited.

Focusing on the wrong threats, including a New Cold War with China, is the last thing we can afford now.

Believe this at least: if we can’t stop fighting those wars across significant parts of the planet, this country won’t remain immune to them either.

This is not what he promised in his campaign and it is not what the American people voted for.

"If the U.S. is truly to end the post-9/11 wars and related activities around the world, then the U.S. public and its leaders must take a broader view of their reach."