Hedges: The Pimps of War
The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a…
Hedges: The Greatest Evil Is War
Russia was baited into war but that does not absolve its criminal act of aggression.
Hedges: Chronicle of a War Foretold
After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were…
The True Costs of America’s All-Consuming War-Culture
This country has sacralized its version of global war and now the world is reaping what we sowed.
Hedges: Democrats, the More Effective Evil
The US is a de facto one-party state where the ideology of national security is sacrosanct, unsustainable debt props up the empire and the primary business is war.
The Antiwar Movement That Wasn’t Enough
While so many Americans ignored our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq along with the global war on terror more generally, a surprising number of American vets (and sometimes even active-duty…
Lowering the Throne of America’s Delusion
The U.S. will not face reality about its foreign policy disasters but rather retreats to fantasy worlds that exist only in its own imagination, writes Michael Brenner.
What Our Forever Wars Really Cost You
Why is it so hard for so many in Washington to imagine spending the sort of money on our needs that they wouldn’t think twice about forking over to the…
Seeing the Future When No One Believes You
Alone among members of Congress in the days after the 9/11 attacks, Barbara Lee grasped what the future held and voted against the initial congressional Authorization for the Use of…
Stephen Davis: The British-American Lie That Started 30 Years of Carnage in the Middle East
The investigative journalist documents in detail the lead up, cover up and aftermath of a 1990 hostage crisis that few recall.
Hedges: The Evil We Do Is the Evil We Get
The hijackers who carried out the attacks on 9/11, like all radical jihadist groups in the Middle East, spoke to us in the murderous language we taught them.
What Really Matters in the US of A
The Decline and Fall of the Roman …whoops! … American Empire
Hedges: The Empire Does Not Forgive
The Americans, like the British and the Soviets before them, dug their own graveyard in Afghanistan.
Can Hope Rise in Afghanistan? Lessons Learned From Vietnam Show It Can.
The Afghans feel betrayed, understandably, just as the South Vietnamese did in 1975. Although we Americans cannot do much about that now, we can create policy measures to ensure Afghans…
The Endless Shadow of the War on Terror
However unsuccessful, the war on terror will continue. The only difference: It won’t be called a war anymore.