Maj. Danny: America’s Libyan Detritus: The One Time Trump Was Right – It Was All Obama’s Fault
Nine years on – and one pandemic later – the Libyan 'shit show,' has gone full mercenary … and few notice.
Andrew Bacevich: A Greatest Generation We Are Not
We’re two decades into a new century, one in which the U.S. has been fighting a series of wars that won’t end and in which this country has only recently…
Netanyahu Uses Apparently Faked Docs to Push US Toward War with Iran
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli fabrication designed to trigger US military conflict with Iran.
Plague Journal #7: Remembering the Shock of Reporting on Kent State
A mostly forgotten element that bridges the Nixon-Trump eras is the thuggish fact-free ways Trump et al are dividing the country to preserve their electoral viability. As is the search…
Maj. Danny: Eugene Debs and the Age of Corona
In this pandemic-era, it has become increasingly clear that we are only as healthy as the least insured—hence the poorest—in our society.
An Army of Humanity to Fight Crimes Against Humanity
A United Nations Rapid Deployment Force would give individual citizens all around the world the ability to volunteer to do more than just “serve their countries.” It would give them…
Tom Engelhardt: ‘The Killer-in-Chief’
Historically speaking, killing Afghans or Iraqis or Syrians or Yemenis or Somalis has always been one thing, but Americans? That’s another story entirely, no? As it happens, the answer is…
Maj. Danny: Heaven Protect Us from Another President’s West Point Graduation Speech
Thus far, the media focus has unsurprisingly been on either the foolishness – or near criminality – of President Trump "requiring” West Point’s seniors to return to campus for the…
Netanyahu Confident Trump Will Let Him Annex Vast Swathes of Palestinian Territory
Since Europe is weak and pusillanimous when it comes to dealing with Israeli aggression, or in some cases is simply perfidious, the issue has been left in the hands of…
Kevin Cooper: Experiencing COVID-19 on Death Row
A letter from Kevin Cooper to Death Penalty Focus.
Sam Husseini: Contrary to Claims, the Pandemic May Have Come from a Lab — and Regardless, It Exposes the Threat of Biowarfare Arms Race
Regardless of the source of this pandemic, there is considerable documentation that a global biological arms race going on outside of public view could produce even more deadly pandemics in…
Foreign Correspondent: Washington’s COVID Blame Game
Scapegoating China serves a twofold purpose: It distorts China’s actual progress in combating the pandemic and aims to help Trump get re-elected.
The Still Exceptional Empires: Neo-Imperialism, Franco-American Style
While all historical analogizing must proceed cautiously – and with recognition of the limits of deduction – the broad similarities are staggering. It is the very grandiose idealism – and…
The Wrong Side of History: America’s ‘Veto’ and ‘Abstention-Imperialism’
On Tuesday, March 17, 1970, Charles Woodruff Yost, America’s ambassador to the United Nations, entered the international body’s headquarters building on the far east side of Midtown Manhattan. He was…
The Last Empire?: Portugal’s Cautionary Tale and the Costs of Forever War
The lack of even a corona-blip on the militarist radar ought raise solemn questions regarding the degree of democracy in the "democratic" U.S. national security structures, and the state of…