Friday, January 10, 2025

The U.S. Military Suffers from Affluenza

An institutional report card with so many deficits and failures, a record of deportment that has led to death and mayhem, should not be ignored. The military must be called to account.

Threatening military intervention in Venezuela during a pandemic?

President Trump has no business deploying U.S. military assets against Venezuela, a country that in no shape or form represents a threat to the security of the United States, especially not now when a pandemic is raging around the world and in our own country.

With nearly 400,000 dead in South Sudan, will the US change policy?

It's a war as brutal as the one in Syria. Will the Trump administration pay any serious attention to it?

How the Gaza war can be big news and invisible at the same time

The horrors in Gaza are being propelled by the U.S. war machine, but you wouldn’t know it from the standard U.S. media.

ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas leader in landmark decision

The ICC’s decision follows months of investigation into allegations of atrocities committed by both Israeli forces and Hamas, marking a pivotal moment in international justice.

Manchurian Amerikans

Well, it is 2017 and what we see here in our Amerika is the ‘deep state’ AKA the super rich run Military Industrial Empire.

More tragedy in Afghanistan is just beginning after the US withdrawal

Afghan civilians have always disproportionately experienced the effects of war and they will now also disproportionately experience what may be an even worse peace — if one can even call it that.

How US wars abroad are intimately tied to police brutality at home

The linkages between U.S. violence in the heart of the empire and places around the world are many, and the need to deepen an awareness of them is urgent.

“Nothing short of a slaughter”: 1 million Syrians in Aleppo under siege with no...

The United Nations is warning nearly 1 million Syrians are living under siege, double the number last year.

Why Russia won’t leave Syria

Were the Tomahawk strikes impulsive?