Tag: war

“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.

An attack on either Russia or China could very well go nuclear, in which case there will be no winners. There will be no one around period to plant flags or declare victory.

"In sum, high costs in war and war-related spending pose a national security concern because they are unsustainable."

It's a war as brutal as the one in Syria. Will the Trump administration pay any serious attention to it?