Thursday, March 6, 2025

The war in questions

Making sense of the age of carnage.
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Mogadishu massacre: Hospitals run out of blood, antibiotics for victims in mass bombing killing...

The explosions came after the Trump administration stepped up a U.S. campaign against al-Shabab in Somalia.

Thou Shalt Not Kill

The U.S. military machine has committed egregious war crimes and serves not to democracy or freedom, but corporate profit. We should think before we bow to glorious violence and war.

America’s arms sales addiction

The 50-year history of U.S. dominance of the Middle Eastern arms trade.

A Letter of Apology to My Grandson

"Someday in the distant future, I hope you’ll read this letter and that, given the ingenuity of our species, given the grit to resist madness, given whatever surprises the future holds, you’ll smile indulgently at my worst fears."

Ex-Blackwater CEO Erik Prince makes a comeback under Trump selling mercenary armies around the...

House Democrats are accusing Prince of lying to Congress during his November 2017 testimony before the Committee, when he described a meeting in the Seychelles with a Russian banker before Donald Trump’s inauguration as a chance encounter.

Searching for Rojava

Rojava’s experiment is no more than a radical democracy, which grew out of a cult of personality. So why is an experiment in direct democracy under siege the best-kept secret in the Middle East?

President Nero

As so much of the world burns, America’s answer to Nero, rather than fiddling, seems intent on pouring more gasoline on the fires.

As Afghanistan faces economic crisis, U.S. could help prevent mass starvation by unfreezing funds

“At least preventing starvation in Afghanistan is still our duty.”

Moral injury and the forever wars

What Americans don’t want to hear...