Friday, April 4, 2025

Why spend $54 billion more on the Pentagon? To start a war, obviously.

The president apparently wants to put the U.S. on a permanent war footing to sustain his unpopular presidency.

America’s longest war winds down

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

Demand another Camp David Accord

Whatever the solution, it has to be one in which the populace is disarmed and cannot confront one another.

Energy Wars of Attrition

In the end, the oil attrition wars may lead us not into a future of North American triumphalism, nor even to a more modest Saudi version of the same, but into a strange new world in which an unlimited capacity to produce oil meets an increasingly crippled capitalist system without the capacity to absorb it.

Parliamentarians study nexus of youth, refugees and development

The Asian Population and Development Association has engaged in activities working towards social development, economic progress, and the enhancement of welfare and peace in the world.

Mosul on my mind

What it really means to be on a “flattening” planet.

Ground zero Nagasaki

It’s essential for us to remember such grim details, not just for the sake of history, but for our future.

One brother gave the Soviets the A-Bomb; The other was honored for designing US...

Newly released FBI files explain a 70-year-old mystery.

How Trump could easily expand the war against ISIS to the entire Muslim world

It’s time the Trump administration start learning the lessons of the past and stop making the same mistakes again and again.

For starving Afghans, no carrots, many (economic) sticks

Continuing the war through economic means should be called what it is: a crime against humanity.