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.
‘Israel’s 9/11’ is a slogan to rationalize open-ended killing of Palestinian civilians
“The horrific cycle of violence in the Middle East will not end until the Israeli occupation ends—and a huge obstacle to ending the occupation has been the U.S. government.”
Politicians and feminist scholars unite in demanding an end to Gaza ceasefire
Is the growing coalition of feminist scholars and politicians is forcing a reckoning?
‘This is just terrorism’: Israel bombs world heritage site in Lebanon, threatens major hospital
The Israeli military has also attacked the ancient city of Tyre, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site, and killed three Lebanese soldiers in a strike in southern Lebanon, all while continuing to defy international calls for a ceasefire.
Identified Paris Attackers Were Not Refugees
Contrary to previous reports, all identified terrorists involved in the Paris attacks last week were European nationals. Does this affect the outlook on Syrian refugees resettling in foreign countries?
Burning Raqqa
The U.S. war against civilians in Syria.
Erik Prince, the failson face of privatized war
If the face long associated with modern mercenaries were more successful at his business, we might already live in a much more dystopian world.
How the warfare state paved the way for a Trumpist autocracy
Is this the real cost of war?
Failed States and States of Failure
We have no idea what it means at this point in history to turn a region, city by city, country by country, into something like a vast failed state and then continue to bomb the rubble.
Gaza’s children face extreme heat and starvation under Israeli blockade
UN reports visible signs of wasting among Gaza’s children as aid deliveries falter and temperatures soar.