War

Amidst calls for peace, a night of retaliation heightens fears of an all-out war.

The most important thing is that people are gullible and malleable, since that allows us to keep the war going and eventually achieve our goals.

For a rich and powerful nation to conclude that it has no choice but to engage in quasi-permanent armed conflict in the far reaches of the planet represents the height of folly. Power confers choice.

Countless innocents died in the 20 years of war our country launched in the name of our 9/11 dead.

So why then does the American power elite hate Putin so? It can be dated back to the period of Boris Yeltsin.

Reports from Gaza reveal that Israel intensified its bombing of Rafah just minutes after the International Court of Justice ordered a halt to the military operations, prompting widespread international condemnation.

President Obama has announced his new "complicated plan" to deal with ISIL and it involves training a "third force", therefore creating a Free Syrian Army to attack al-Qaeda and ISIL. But is this a practical option to fighting the radical extremists?

Americans are tired of war, yet Donald Trump’s budget sends an unfortunate but clear message.

Likely, down the line the US will get pulled right back into Iraq, because it refuses to recognize the real power dynamics there at the level of policy rather than just of tactics.

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.