Learn From the Afghan War—or Repeat It
The real takeaway from both Vietnam and Afghanistan, is that invasions and occupations rarely work, aren’t ethical, and shouldn’t be attempted in the first place.
Demand for ‘Moratorium on Drone Warfare’ Follows Latest U.S. Killing of Afghan Civilians
Activists and civil rights groups are calling for the Biden administration to put a halt to covert warfare in and beyond Afghanistan.
Maj. Danny Sjursen: America’s War Machine Refuses to Let Afghanistan Go
On this week's "Scheer Intelligence," the veteran weighs in on the U.S. exit from Afghanistan and Gen. David Petraeus’ dangerously false narrative about our country’s longest war.
A Hell of America’s Own Making
The Pentagon’s escalating dystopian scenarios, its fixation with being overstretched by climate crises and great power conflict to the point of collapse, and its more recent goal of reducing its…
The Danger of an Afghanistan ‘Threequel’ from Biden
Don't assume we have left for good, says Maj. Danny, even though we haven't helped anybody by being there.
America’s $1.3 Trillion National Security Budget Isn’t Making Us Safer
Despite the fact that developments of the past year and a half have underscored that the greatest threats to American lives are anything but military in nature, the Biden administration…
Biden’s Lawless Bombing of Iraq and Syria Only Serves the Weapons Industry Funding Both Parties
U.S. citizens derive no benefit, but instead suffer great loss, from endless war in the Middle East. But their interests are irrelevant to decisions of bipartisan Washington.
Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?
If the two greatest greenhouse-gas emitters on this planet can’t work together, we’re all going to be living in a more or less literal hell.
What the U.S. Could’ve Done With the $2 Trillion Spent on the Afghanistan War
Rather than leave 240,000 people dead, the U.S. could have greened half its electrical grid--for starters.
The Fine Print on Biden’s Afghanistan Announcement
Contrary to what Joe Biden has said and corporate media has parroted, U.S. warfare in Afghanistan is set to continue well beyond September 11, 2021.
We Should All Be Afraid of the New Cold War
2021 looks a lot like 1981—and that should scare us.
The National Security State Has Militarized Our Democracy
A particular irony of this century has been that the less effective the U.S. military has been abroad, the more it’s come to be treasured here at home. In the…
Joe Biden Must Learn from America’s Failed Wars
Have any of our leaders really come to grips with the striking American ability in the last 60 years to get into but not out of wars?
America’s Christmas Gift to Africa? War Crimes
Considering a US AFRICOM Angle to Tigray, Ethiopia, and Uncle Sam’s role on Africa’s Horn.
Michèle Flournoy’s Fall Proves What Progressive Pushback Can Do
Activism succeeded in changing “Defense Secretary Flournoy” from a fait accompli to a lost fantasy of the military-industrial complex.