Since 9/11, the US military has been making inroads in Africa. Despite repeated assurances that military activities on the continent were minuscule, a 2013 investigation by TomDispatch exposed…
War
What happens when a war ends and an army comes home? It’s been a vexing problem for centuries. Now the United States faces the problem again.
In a troubling twist to modern warfare, public squares are now common sites of protest and violence, while hospitals treating the wounded are considered fair game. But perhaps…
When President Obama released his budget for 2015 on Tuesday, which included $495.6 billion for the Pentagon, the likely suspects screamed that the sky is going to fall.
Whenever Washington winds down its wars and our troops become needy veterans, interest in their welfare always flags. Clearly, Congress and the White House are much better at…
Hagel’s proposal is already receiving pushback from Congress.
In order to stop the never-ending warmongering of US foreign policy, the US government itself must be fundamentally transformed.
The Washington Post is claiming that the Russian military intervention in Crimea illustrates President Obama is too reluctant to use military force.
In January 2009, Barack Obama entered the Oval Office projecting idealism, broadcasting five commandments by which life in his new world of national security would be lived. Five…
David Swanson nominates support for war as “stupidest Idea in the history of the world.”