Militarism

As George Bush and his national security team marched the US off to war in Iraq, they were aided by key news outlets, especially the neocon-dominated Washington Post.

Noam Chomsky continues to offer trenchant analysis of how US hegemony is a self-destructive force.

“The US may be pulling out most troops, but the conflict in Afghanistan continues, and so does the US debt to that nation.”

The invasion has almost nothing to do with Islamism, and almost everything to do with the acquisition of resources.

It is much more than evangelical Christians hoping for the rapture.

Stephen Zunes tracks the history of John Kerry from Vietnam War critic to Iraq war hawk.

Jeremy Scahill: The appointment of Brennan to CIA, to me, is the greatest symbol of how deeply invested in covert war and an expansion of wars around the world.

The time is so late, the danger so great, that I call upon all the forces which believe in peace to take a lesson from the labor movement, the …

The question of whether a sacrifice has been worth the effort often remains an open question for a very long time.

Although many will dispute his exclusion of other forms of aggression as violence, few will argue that Timothy Leary's assertion is more valid than ever now: Violence is killing …