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War & Peace
Torturing Democracy
It is difficult to imagine how any democracy can avoid being corrupted when war becomes the foundation of politics, if not culture itself.
Cow Most Sacred: Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable
U.S. military outlays today equal that of every other nation on the planet combined.
Wars Are Not Fought on Battlefields
The notion of a battlefield has been expanded, to put it mildly.
Breaking the Israel-Palestine Deadlock
While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as “delegitimation” – …
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don't bet on it.
Ann Jones on “War Is Not Over When It’s Over: Women and the Unseen Consequences of Conflict”
War is not what we think it is, when we hear all these reports about soldiers and generals and strategies. War includes the whole population. War is fought on …
Did Bob Woodward Help the Military Subvert Obama and the Constitution?
The Pentagon gamed the process to exclude any possibility of Obama rendering a decision not to its liking.
Guitars Not Wars
What happens when music fails to inspire, but instead entertains only?
From Churchill to Petraeus
“I have not become her Majesty's first minister to preside over the dissolution of the British Empire.” It was hard not to remember this proud declaration of Winston Churchill, …
States of Paralysis: America’s Surrender to the Spectacle of Terror
The spectacle of terror and fear has developed a singular focus of communication and control.