These installations exist somewhere between light and shadow. While acknowledged as foreign military outposts, they are excluded from the official inventory… Read More Bases, Bases Everywhere… Except in the Pentagon’s Report
To call the move of some 2 to 5,000 troops and their supporting civilian contractors from Syria and into new bases in Iraq a “disengagement” from the whole Middle East is obviously bollocks… Read More NYT Laments U.S. Disengagement Even As There Is None
One of those rare, precious moments when good overcame evil on a large scale, albeit fleetingly… Read More The Christmas Truce, 1914
In an even marginally sane world, the fact that a nation’s armed forces are engaged in daily military violence would be cause for shock and alarm, and pulling those forces out of that situation would be viewed as a return to normalcy. Instead we are seeing the exact opposite… Read More Endless War Has Been Normalized And Everyone Is Crazy
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of War… Read More “Alexa, Launch Our Nukes!”
Don’t look now, but Vladimir Putin has racked up another win in his latest skirmish with the West… Read More Vladimir Putin Outmaneuvers the U.S. Yet Again
Using a time-honored trick, a bipartisan congressional panel argues we should boost the president’s record defense bill even more.… Read More Trump’s Defense Spending Is Out of Control, and Poised to Get Worse
Civilian casualties in the three-year horror in Yemen has been vastly underestimated by mainstream organizations… Read More Yemeni War Deaths Have Been Underestimated by At Least 5 to 1
Americans are rightly horrified at Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder, yet most fail to recognize that their own leaders’ murderous ways may be little different than those who ordered Khashoggi’s death… Read More Killer Politicians
Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who disappeared in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week, is not quite the critic of the Saudi regime that the Western media says he is.… Read More Khashoggi Was No Critic of Saudi Regime
“For the sake of all parties, we demand that the Saudis only kill people who hardly anyone in America cares about”… Read More Trump Administration Urges Saudis To Stick To Killing Random Yemeni Civilians
John Bolton warns of joint action in Syria, calling on the UK and France to join. Talk of regime change. The excuse: weapons of mass destruction. Sounds familiar?… Read More The Coalition of the Willing Is Back — This Time for Syria
