Friday, April 4, 2025

Trump’s Iran aggression deserves full-throated opposition

Trump is betraying his voters and threatening millions of lives. Call him on it before it’s too late.

Can the Military-Industrial Complex be tamed?

Cutting the Pentagon's budget in half would finally force the generals to think.

Never having to say you’re sorry

No accountability and no apologies...

Trickle down, wealth tax, and war

The central advantage to a wealth tax is that it spreads the power to spend wealth throughout the society and thereby can better the society if done in an appropriate way.

20 million Muslims march against ISIS and the mainstream media completely ignores it

The way to truly defeat ISIS is by rendering their fear and divisive tactics impotent.

New bill introduced to hold US military accountable to civilian casualties

“Maximizing transparency will prevent further loss of life.”

‘Escalation dominance’. . . and the prospect of more than 1,000 Holocausts

Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.”

Back to the future at the Pentagon

Why 2021 looks so much like 1981 — and why that should scare us...

The age of great expectations and the great void

History after “the end of history.”

But I thought the Cold War was supposed to have been about ideology.

The Cold War should have ended in 1991 when communism and the Warsaw Pact did, but instead it continued on in the form of NATO.