By Alfred McCoy / TomDispatch Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin…
This amounts to one arms shipment every 1.5 days.
Andrea Mazzarino compares American reactions to the present nightmare in Israel and Gaza to those about our own never-ending global wars.
Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old soldier in the United States Air Force, died on Sunday after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC in protest of Israel's…
By Ralph Nader / Nader.org Among the puzzling questions that the media chooses to ignore is asking high government officials why they are exercising the illegal use of power that…
June 8, 1967, Another Date That Lives in Infamy
The White House says the US response to the Jordan drone attack won't be a 'one-off'.
By Matthew Hoh / CounterPunch Two press reports stood out to me this week: the release of the names of two US Navy SEALs who drowned two weeks ago in…
The US might attack Iran directly if an American is killed.
The ultimate irony is that a nation that is so secure because of friendly borders north and south as well as protective oceans east and west has become so insecure.
What US foreign policy shamelessly amounts to is this: 'We make the rules so we get to break the rules."
The US has threatened to 'act' if the terms of the 1995 Dayton Accords are not followed and said no one has the right to 'secession'.
Prior to 2001, U.S. wars were financed through a mixture of higher taxes and budget cuts, and funded mostly through the regular defense budget. The post-9/11 war funding pattern was…
The US and UK are preparing to bomb Yemen.
Mohammed al-Sudani and his government are unhappy with the US for launching airstrikes in Iraq.
