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Mapping the Chinese Conquest of the Planet: Exterminatory Worlds, Then and Now
In 2014, what strange pleasures — and horrors — can be found in rising adult fears in an exterminatory world?
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War Makes Us Poorer
Over two thousand years after Sun Tzu lived, the nature of war has not changed. War still impoverishes most people today.
New Data Raise Further Doubt on Official View of August 21 Gas Attack in Syria
New information makes an attack by opposition forces far more plausible than first thought.
Pivot for Peace, Not for War
President Obama travels to East Asia this week to reinforce his administration's military pivot to Asia and the Pacific and to rescue the faltering Trans-Pacific Partnership “free trade” agreement.
The Enemies of Economic Stimulus
Private enterprises, the military and the super-rich are among those buying politicians and hurting the working class.
Fighting for Coveted Combat Badges and Patches
The problem with a professional military that is self-defined as “warriors.” is its members desire war: a chance, so they think, to test themselves in the crucible of combat.
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John Pilger | The Strangelove Effect – or How We Are Hoodwinked Into Fighting a New Cold War
While President Obama seeks more money for nuclear weapons than at the peak of the Cold War, the era of the comedy movie, “Dr. Strangelove,” it's no joke …
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We Don’t Want You to Swim in the River
The last time North Korea got frisky, the Navy showed off an anti-missile laser. Now, with the crisis continuing in Ukraine, the Navy is showing off something even scarier.
Many Faces of War
Iraq has been occupied for over 11 years now. Over two million troops have flown in and out of theater, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and …
Big Revamp of Pentagon’s Troubled Mission to Find Missing Soldiers Looks a Lot Like Old Revamp
Without change of leadership throughout, meaningful change could be elusive, critics say.