Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies
Ambush at Kamikaze Pass.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the spies who prevented a criminal US with a nuclear monopoly...
Seventy-four years ago yesterday, the U.S. dropped the first-ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, a non-military target of several hundred...
Debating Democrats, please, no fighting in the war room
Direct your artillery at the real enemy, not each other.
The democratic debates need more questions about nuclear war
With the Trump administration unraveling what remains of the U.S. arms control regime, Democratic candidates desperately need to articulate their plans to avert a nuclear crisis.
Nuclear disarmament should be a top 2020 campaign issue but is being ignored
With none of the major presidential candidates raising this kind of nuclear disarmament program, it is up to the US peace movement and Green Party candidates up and down the ticket to inject these demands into the 2020 elections.
How America’s wars end (messily)
And the Afghan war will be no exception.
Iran: How Bolton tricked clueless UK conservatives into confrontation with Tehran
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Simon Tisdall at The Guardian explains the difference between Socialist Spain and the disorganized Conservatives in control of U.K....
Is Trump setting the US up for further al-Qaeda attacks by putting Troops in...
The impetus for the return of US troops to Prince Sultan Airbase in Saudi Arabia is the renewed tensions with Iran.
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.
Merger mania
When, in his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the “unwarranted influence” wielded by the “military-industrial complex,”...