Christian Sorensen is a novelist, military analyst, and independent journalist mainly focused on war profiteering within the military-industrial complex. An Air Force veteran, he is the author of the recently published book, Understanding the War ...
Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations, & war. He has ...
David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed ...
Garett Reppenhagen is the son of a Vietnam Veteran and grandson of two World War II Veterans. He served in the U.S. Army as a Cavalry/Scout Sniper in the 1st Infantry Division. Garett completed a ...
Denis Halliday is an exceptional figure in the world of diplomacy. In 1998, after a 34-year career with the United Nations—including as an Assistant Secretary-General and the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq—he resigned when the UN ...
An interview with anthropologist Douglas P. Fry on how societies that operate within peace systems avoid war and create positive intergroup relationships—and what this might mean for humanity’s future. We live in a time in ...
(David Swanson) The U.S. House of Representatives (in February and again in April, 2019) and the Senate (in December 2018 and March 2019) have each voted twice with strong bipartisan majorities to end the war ...
Biden is following in the footsteps of Obama and Trump, who both promised fresh approaches to foreign policy but for the most part delivered more endless war. The Biden presidency is still in its early ...
Brian Ferguson’s research on the origins of war, going back to the beginning of human history and our closest ape relatives, suggests war is not part of our evolution. War and all of its brutality ...
“I expect the prevailing direction of U.S. foreign policy over these last decades to continue: more lawless bombing and killing multiple countries under the cover of “limited engagement,” – Biden Biographer Branko Marcetic (By: Alan Macleod, ...
“The fact that explosives designed to rip apart human anatomy are dropped from the sky many times per day for no other reason than to exert control over foreign countries should horrify us all.” (Caitlin ...
(David Swanson) Already we’ve seen, as a result of people taking to the streets in the United States: Four policemen indicted. More racist monuments dismantled. Some minimal and inconsistent limit on what the New York Times editorial ...
Biden and policy advisers around him have re-tooled the basic Trump and American foreign policy with slightly friendlier language As America reaches 100,000 coronavirus deaths, President Trump is taking a golf trip and most states ...
“A war in the region now threatens its entire oil and shipping infrastructure, and can also take down the entire global economy in its wake.” With the United States walking out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan ...
Think for a moment how different Iran and the Middle East’s fate would have been if the CIA, along with the British, did not orchestrate a military coup to overthrow the democratically-elected government of Iran. ...
Trump’s blunders have placed us back on the path to a truly catastrophic war, with barricades of lies blocking every off-ramp. The U.S. assassination of General Qassem Soleimani has not yet plunged us into a ...
Besides being of some symbolic and political significance, the resolution does not have any legal value and is non-binding. (Peoples Dispatch) The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on Thursday, January 9, to restrict ...
“Our missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal and fast. Under construction are many hypersonic missiles. The fact that we have this great military and equipment, however, does not mean we have to use it.” Trump ...
Iran launched over a dozen missiles at two American bases, Asad and Erbil, in Iraq early Wednesday, according to Iranian official news media and United States officials. The military strike marks the beginning of what ...
However Iran responds to the recent assassination of General Soleimani, Iranian officials are correct that U.S. influence in the region has deteriorated and will deteriorate further. Major General Hossein Salami, the chief of the Islamic ...
“Strategically …we are pouring gasoline on a smoldering fire with no structure or strategy for where we’re going to take this thing next.” To the risk of contradicting U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo, Americans are ...
“Like ISIS, Like Hitler, Like Genghis! They all hate cultures. Trump is a terrorist in a suit.” (By MEMO) Iran condemned Donald Trump on Sunday as a “terrorist in a suit” after the US president ...
Only two days after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the killing of both General Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s Commander in Chief of the elite Quds Force and Abu Mahdi Al Mohandis, deputy chief of the Popular ...
Endless war is always good for one thing – defense industry profits. Defense stocks soared on Friday after the Ayatollah vowed revenge for the Trump administration’s assassination of Iran’s most powerful general late Thursday, as ...
“We will not stand for the Islamic Republic of Iran to take actions that put American men and women in jeopardy.” At least 25 militants were reportedly killed on Sunday and about 55 others wounded ...
Any responsible government Americans elect in 2020 must learn from the well-documented failure and catastrophic human cost of U.S. regime change efforts in Afghanistan. The trove of U.S. “Lessons Learned” documents on Afghanistan published by the Washington Post portrays, ...
Lies are an integral part of national security operations. They seek credibility for government policy. They mislead adversaries, cover up mistakes and failures. (By Gordon Adams, The Conversation) The Washington Post has, after more than ...
Is space about to become a war zone? After the addition of the United States Space Force, NATO is now signaling its own operations in space could be coming. Operational Zone North Atlantic Treaty Organization ...
A study of the first ten months of the Washington Post’s opinion columns in 2009 found that pro-war columns outnumbered antiwar columns by more than 10 to 1. (By FAIR) The Washington Post’s publication of ...
While claiming to “preserve peace,” NATO has a history of bombing civilians and committing war crimes. The three smartest words that Donald Trump uttered during his presidential campaign are “NATO is obsolete.” His adversary, Hillary Clinton, retorted that NATO ...
No soldier should be above the law. Nor should those who sent the soldiers into battle. U.S. President Donald Trump sacked his Navy secretary on Twitter. The main reason is that the Navy secretary did ...
(By Nick Lehr, The Conversation) A decade ago, in October 2009, Barack Obama learned that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was uncomfortable with the prize, saying that he didn’t feel that he ...
As impeachment proceedings against Trump ramp up, could he turn to declaring war on Iran in a move to provide distraction? On CBS’s “60 Minutes,” the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the architect of ...
If Americans fail to speak out now, we may discover too late that our failure to rein in our venal, warmongering ruling class has led us to the brink of World War III. On Saturday, ...
A recent weapons seizure by Argentine authorities of about 1,000 guns and hundreds of explosives is the nation’s largest in history, according to officials. (By Josefina Salomón and Carolina Sampó, InSight Crime) While the seizure of ...
As tensions in the Middle East worsen, a recent military ranking index suggests an Iran-Israel military conflict would pit two equally formidable military forces. According to the annual Military Strength Ranking report compiled by Global ...
Airspace violations are more of an etiquette issue than an act of war and they happen fairly often and do not cause any long term issues. (By Tim Kirby, Strategic Culture Foundation) Alarmist and inaccurate journalism ...
“In the context of NATO, the United States [has deployed] around 150 nuclear weapons in Europe, in particular B61 free-bombs, which can be [delivered] by both US and Allied planes.” (By Brian Cloughley, Strategic Culture ...
The U.S. plans for a naval armada in Hormuz will run against the Laws of Seas and Iran’s sovereignty over its territorial waters. We are now sleepwalking to a new war in the region with ...
Jojo Rabbit is a World War II era satire that follows a lonely German boy who must confront his blind nationalism as he is aided by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler. Jojo Rabbit is ...
The US and UK continue to supply arms and ammunition to the Saudi led grouping responsible for the death of tens of thousands of innocent civilians and the destruction of Yemen. (By Abdul Rahman, Peoples ...
Concerned about the presence of Iranian and Hezbollah forces in Syria, Israel launched an offensive into Syria which left six civilians dead on Monday. In air raids on Syrian territories, six Syrian civilians including a ...
The U.S. “war on terror” was actually the catalyst for al-Qaida’s growth. (By Christian Taylor, The Conversation) Al-Qaida has recruited an estimated 40,000 fighters since Sept. 11, 2001, when the Osama bin Laden-led extremist group ...
The ICC provides no legal counterbalance to the arrogance of an empire’s power. In June, a group of international lawyers sued the European Union for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ...
“There is no military solution to this problem.” (By Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Iraqi President Barham Salih said Tuesday that the United States has no right to use his country as a launchpad for a ...
“The strategy of maximum pressure is not designed to induce negotiations, but rather to push Iran away from the negotiating table while triggering further Iranian provocations that could serve as a pretext for war.” The ...
Addressing President Donald Trump directly, the Minnesota congresswoman said, “Do not listen to the warmongers and war profiteers whispering in your ear. (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Citing her firsthand experience of the horrors of ...
There was unanimity on the strike, led by national security adviser Bolton. Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were also in agreement. On Friday morning United States President Donald Trump tweeted ...
To avoid another embarrassing defeat like Vietnam, the United States evolved its warfare strategy to include the battle for hearts and minds. On April 30, 1975, the United States learned an important lesson. The capture ...
That view – that Bolton is driving Trump into a perilous military confrontation with America’s principal foe in the Middle East – is ricocheting across the globe. “Under a starry sky, U.S. Navy fighter jets ...
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