Monday, March 31, 2025

Tag: U.S. Military

The new age militarists

What's their threat to our common future?

American troops as migrants

What the MAGA crowd don’t recognize: the troops they plan to rely on to carry out the deportations of potentially millions of people are, in their own way, also migrants.

The military to prison pipeline

Trading one uniform for another.

The return of war to the home front

Don't look for restraint from Donald Trump's military.

Senate rejects Sanders’ push to halt US arms sales as weapons...

The Senate overwhelmingly voted against the measures, leaving advocates of peace and human rights questioning U.S. complicity in the alleged war crimes unfolding in Gaza.

Israel bombs Gaza refugee camps following $5.2 billion deal for US...

The attacks killed at least 22 people, according to reports, and add to the growing concerns about the role of American military aid in facilitating violence against civilians.

Powder keg in the Pacific

Such seeming strength contains both a heightened risk of great power conflict and possible political pressures that could fracture America’s Asia-Pacific alliance relatively soon.
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Ex-US Army major who resigned over Gaza warns against Biden sending...

This marks the first significant deployment of American troops to Israel since the beginning of its assault on Gaza, though the U.S. has spent an estimated tens of billions of dollars on the Israeli military and related operations.

Who wants to kill and die for the American Empire?

The U.S. policy of proxy war, relying on allies to do the killing and dying in order to avoid domestic political blow back over U.S. casualties, has led us to the brink of war with Russia and Iran.

Senator Sanders demands US withdraw military aid as Israel escalates attacks...

Amidst escalating violence in Rafah, Senator Bernie Sanders challenges the U.S. administration to cease military support for Israel, citing severe humanitarian risks and a potential large-scale tragedy.

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White House orders Social Security shutdowns and service cuts as Trump nominee faces Senate...

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The dark and sinister ideology driving Elon Musk’s actions

The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been, and their power as elected officials sworn to uphold the Constitution is far greater than an unelected billionaire’s artificial power as Donald Trump’s hatchet man.
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‘Kidnapped’: 1,000+ protest after masked ICE agents abduct Tufts Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk

Surveillance video shows agents approaching her on the streets near her home Tuesday evening and handcuffing her while she screamed for help.

The infinities of genocide abroad feed secret police at home

Strange how horror can oscillate into absurdity and back at ever accelerating rates. And strange how it rebounds to undermine basic American rights at home.