The worldwide distribution and deployment of active duty army personnel looked radically different at the time of the 9/11 attacks – and so were the prospects for a budding soldier.
'Where Have You Gone, Daniel Ellsberg?' Nowhere. Now 90, he’s been here all along, still calling out our government's bullshit.
Wide-ranging discussion on evolving towards dissent, what’s cooking in recent foreign policy absurdity news …and also, well, life & love & loss, ultimately.
Who needs dystopian novelists or absurd satirists when otherwise banal bureaucrats of the U.S. national security state do the job for them? It’s an old story with a new tech-savvy…
“Explainers" of the conflict between Armenia-Azerbaijan read like Wikipedia-ripoffs filtered through Washington's built-in "blame Russia” colander.
The military says they can't find evidence to support it, yet the New York Times and others have not repudiated the reports or issued corrections.
Joel Rayburn was a favorite professor at West Point. Sadly, he later rejected intellectual consistency and championed rather than challenged America’s hopeless and ethically indefensible wars.
This Mideast mirror was ready to burst well before the recent Beirut blast. And here’s a hint for Washington: it’s not about us!
One’s opinion on the multiplicity of Russia-inflected-'gates' is now a lucidity litmus test. Spoiler alert: D.C. is apparently an open-air psych ward.
Blocking withdrawal from a hopeless Afghan War opposed even by its veterans, counts as criminally heinous – and par for the congressional course.
Our nation faces a perfect storm of crises and may be teetering on the brink of widespread communal violence.
File it in the rapidly-brimming "biggest-stories-of-2020-you-haven’t-heard-about" folder.
Planet Earth circa 2020: this is Orwell’s world; we’re just living in it.
Faced with an investigation of possible U.S. war crimes, the administration’s 'enforcers' retaliated with textbook mob tactics.
Our messianic belief that we are the chosen nation has been disastrous for so many here and abroad.
