War

TeleSur | – – The official said the deal will be good for the U.S. economy. The United States is close to completing a series of arms deals forSaudi Arabia totaling more than $100 billion, a senior White House official said on Friday, a week ahead of President Donald Trump’s planned visit to Riyadh. The […]

Militarization

How Many Defeats have Americans bought with $5 Trillion in War Costs?

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By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – When Donald Trump wanted to “do something” about the use of chemical weapons on civilians in Syria, he had the U.S. Navy lob 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield (cost: $89 million). The strike was symbolic at best, as the Assad regime ran bombing […]

Foreign Policy

American Amnesia in the Garden of War

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By John Dower | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Some years ago, a newspaper article credited a European visitor with the wry observation that Americans are charming because they have such short memories. When it comes to the nation’s wars, however, he was not entirely on target. Americans embrace military histories of the heroic “band […]

Climate Change

Climate March: Can we Save the Planet without Taking on the Pentagon?

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By H Patricia Hynes | ( Portside ) | – – If we are not united in peace, we cannot save the planet. – Thich Nhat Hanh War and Warming: Can We Save the Planet Without Taking on the Pentagon? Looking out to my audience of young climate change activists and older peace activists gathered […]

Donald Trump

Trump’s Warmongering on Steroids: But who Supplied the Steroids

Juan Cole

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – MOAB sounds more like an incestuous, war-torn biblical kingdom than the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, aka “the mother of all bombs.” Still, give Donald Trump credit. Only the really, really big bombs, whether North Korean nukes or those 21,600 pounds of MOAB, truly get his […]

Afghanistan

Taliban Attackers Kill at Least 140 Soldiers at Afghan Base: Officials

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TeleSur | – – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani visited the base on Saturday, and in a statement condemned the attack as “cowardly” and the work of “infidels.” At least 140 Afghan soldiers were killed by Taliban attackers apparently disguised in military uniforms, officials said on Saturday, in what would be the deadliest attack ever on […]

Donald Trump

Is Trump Taking Us to War Everywhere?

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By Olivia Alperstein | (Otherwords.org) | – – No one expected Trump to be a peace president, but he seems bent on taking us to the verge of World War III. No one ever expected Donald Trump to be a peace-loving president. On the campaign trail, he endorsed torture, said he’d bomb the families of […]

Bashar al-Assad

Washington’s Supreme Hypocrisy on Chemical Weapons and Civilian Deaths

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The use of chemical weapons by the Syrian Army in Idlib is an atrocity and the pictures of dead children tug at the heart. But the outrage of American politicians inside the beltway about it draws on the myths of American exceptionalism and Alzheimer’s of the […]

Militarization

How our Standing Wars are Warping Us

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Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – On successive days recently, I saw two museum shows that caught something of a lost American world and seemed eerily relevant in the Age of Trump. The first, “Hippie Modernism,” an exploration of the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s (heavy on psychedelic posters), was appropriately enough […]