Funding evil in Afghanistan (and beyond)
It may seem cynical to say so, but after almost 18 years of occupation, it sometimes seems that an entire country, one of the poorest in the world, has been turned into a kind of live fire training ground for U.S. and allied forces.
500 years is long enough! Human Depravity in the Congo
For more than 500 years, the Congo has been brutalized by the extraordinary violence inflicted by those who have treated the country as a resource – for slaves, rubber, timber, wildlife and minerals – to be exploited.
Narco-corruption, ISIS 3.0, and the terror drone attack that never happened
If the Pentagon’s war-gamers are to be believed, far worse is yet to come.
The pawns of war
Memorial Day is here again, and it seems ‘The Dogs of War’ are at it as always.
An empire of nothing at all?
The U.S. military takes us through the gates of hell.
Gearing up for the third Gulf War
Will Washington, Tel Aviv, Riyadh, and Tehran face off in a future cataclysm?
Arms and influence
How the Saudis took Donald Trump for a ride.
War and the imperial presidency
Congress offers a bipartisan blank check to Donald Trump.
Two-faced Trump: Peace in Korea, World War in the Middle East
Welcome to the impossible world of America’s two-faced president.
Why can’t the world’s best military win its wars?
Americans need to rethink war and look honestly at ourselves and our friends.