Saturday, January 11, 2025

War pay

Here is what the coming boom years are likely to look like for the Pentagon, the arms makers, and their weaponry.

North Korea is walking back war—and pundits are strangely disappointed

Pundits seem more concerned about the North driving a "wedge" between the U.S. and the South than about preventing nuclear war.

Special ops at war

From Afghanistan to Somalia, Special Ops achieves less with more.

Mapping a world from hell

76 countries are now involved in Washington’s War on Terror.

F-35 jet program budget exceeds $406 billion, yet universal healthcare too costly

Members of Congress say the U.S. is "too broke" to increase spending on programs that intend to improve education and healthcare, but $27 billion more could go to F-35 jet program.

Time to call out US militarism for what it is: The key threat to...

The evidence clearly shows that national security is far better achieved by intelligent diplomacy than by war.

Libya, Syria, Ukraine – one script, three stories

The fundamental ploy in Libya, Syria and Ukraine was the same: rile up the population and then stage a coup in the midst of chaos, while claiming to liberate the people.

Global special ops out of control under Trump

Elite commandos deployed to 149 countries in 2017.

North Korea: The costs of war, calculated

Even a limited war with North Korea would kill millions, devastate the environment, and bankrupt the U.S. Preventing it should be the peace movement's highest priority.

How the US could provoke a new Korean War

The bare bones of a deal with North Korea may exist, but senseless provocations could set off a conflict long before then.