Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Tag: U.S. Military

Backers of endless war deplore that many Trump supporters favor using...

Are some of Trump’s true believers are eager to adapt the violent precepts of perpetual war to American politics?

‘The greatest fighting force in human history’

A most exceptional military makes its wars and their ugliness disappear.

How America can better care for its veterans

Veterans deserve a system of care that serves them as reliably as they did the nation.

Report shows how military industrial complex sets media narrative on Ukraine

A recent report from the Quincy Institute (6/1/23) demonstrates just how much influence war profiteers have on the national discourse.

The patriotism of killing and being killed

Why are patriotism and war so intertwined in U.S. media and politics?

The wars we don’t (care to) see

It couldn’t be more important to make America’s disastrous wars of this century more visible.

The army we don’t see

The private world that our post-9/11 conflicts have bred.

Leaks reveal reality behind US propaganda in Ukraine

Like in previous U.S. wars, the veil of propaganda is unraveling around a senseless and unnecessary war that is killing a generation of young Ukrainians.

To hell and back

It is time to set in motion policies that would uplift veterans instead of pouring yet more staggering sums into a military that’s only sent so many of us to hell and back in this century?

Ukraine and the lessons of the Iraq War

Only those who have failed to learn the lessons of the Iraq War would fail to make the same demand of Russia as a prerequisite for a just peace today.

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