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Pop Culture Portrays Aerial Bombardment of Middle East as “Business as Usual”
By showing drone strikes as the “answer” to terrible dilemmas, popular culture legitimizes brutal warfare.
We Need an International Treaty to Ban Weaponized Drones
Drone attacks exemplify a form of one-sided war -- a video game for one side and devastating horror for the other.
The National Security State Doesn’t Protect Us. Let’s Redefine Security for All.
Living under COVID for the past year has driven home the reality that militarization doesn’t buy security.
With Biden’s Backing, Space Force Threatens to Accelerate the Arms Race
With Democrats and Republicans now both firmly behind the Space Force, it seems there is no going back.
Biden Should Use Peace-Driven Policies to “Lead With the Power of Our Example”
Change to the military-industrial complex, if and when it comes, will have to be driven by the people.
More Military Influence and Spending Has Not and Will Not Make Us Safer
As the Biden years begin, it’s time to give some serious thought to how to demilitarize our democracy.
Instead of Propping Up a Dying Empire, It’s Time to Finally End US Wars
The “war on terror” has truly become a war of generations.
A Think Tank Echo Chamber Is Thirsting for a New Cold War With China
Many of the top think tank recipients of foreign funding are also top recipients of funding from US weapons makers.
The Art of the Weapons Deal in the Age of Trump
If Donald Trump is reelected, don’t expect U.S. sales to the Middle East -- or their murderous effects -- to diminish.
Trump Needs Accomplices at Every Level of Government to Pull Off a Coup
Are we doomed to suffer a coup d'état no matter the outcome of the election?