Military

There exists a near perfect inverse symmetry between the real story of Amasa and the fictional story of Ahab, with each representing a face of the American Empire.

The US spends nearly a trillion dollars a year on national defense, to include wars, homeland security, a bewildering array of intelligence agencies, and the maintenance of nuclear weapons. …

Recent conflicts surrounding World Bank-supported projects in Honduras demonstrate that the World Bank is beyond reform, and needs to be shut down.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders proposes restoring money in the budget for military pensions by using war funding, and giving us a true cost of war at the same time.

It's a critical time to support Japanese efforts to oppose Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's nationalist refashioning of his country.

Neither the Iraq War nor US involvement in it has ever really ended.

It's been 12 years since the prison at Guantanamo Bay opened, and the fundamental issues of indefinite detention and perpetual war remain.

While the Obama administration promises to investigate drone strikes, civilians in Yemen are dying and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is garnering new recruits.

Nick Turse: Since September 11, 2001, US Special Operations forces have grown in every conceivable way, from their numbers to their budget.

Tom Engelhardt: When I check the latest news on Washington's global war-making, I regularly find at least one story that fits a category that I call: What Could Possibly …