The 2018 U.S. Militarized Budget
The 2018 U.S. Militarized Budget My premise is that the military budget, as proposed by the current administration, is a principal reason for the strangling of our civil society. This article explains...
View ArticleThe U.S. Military in Africa: a Workshop for the Militarization of Foreign Policy
After four American servicemen were killed in in Niger in October, social media discussion fixated on President Trump’s insensitive remarks to the widow of one of the slain soldiers and questions about...
View ArticleCongress must end American support for Saudi war in Yemen
By Mark Weisbrot The New York Times editorial board recently took an unusual position of denouncing what it called “war crimes” by a U.S. ally, in a war in which the United States is actively...
View ArticleThe Honduran Crisis: Not Quite Your Father’s Oligarchy…
At first glance the political crisis in Honduras seems depressingly familiar: a military coup against a left-leaning President in 2009, continued repression of opposition groups, and now a...
View ArticleHiroshima 1945 and the Threat of Nuclear Catastrophe
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” – Albert Einstein, 1946. “To hell with these maniacs.” – Premier...
View ArticleAttacks on the Campus Left Then and Now: Fighting Student Activists on...
In the 1930s, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was home to a thriving anti-war and anti-imperialist community of different radical, socialist, and communist groups. The National Student...
View ArticleIndependence Day 2016
We have just celebrated the independence of our nation with fireworks and other reminders of the “glories” of war. Only a few weeks ago I saw our president laying a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown...
View ArticleForeign Relations, Domestic Security, and the Trump Era
The foreign policy outlook for the near future is bleak, but not just because of the incoming Trump administration’s proposals. Trump’s public statements about rolling back U.S. investments in “soft”...
View ArticleOUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND, THE HIDDEN COSTS OF WAR
“War is a racket!” This was a famous quote from retired U.S. Marine Corp General Smedley Butler in 1934. Butler stated that “I spent 33 years in the Marine Corp, most of my time being a high-class...
View ArticleCounting the Costs of War
“The refugee crisis” is a big and scary concept, but to many of us it is just that, conceptual. However, a September 2020 study has found that between 37 and 59 million people from 12 different...
View ArticleGoing Dark in Afghanistan
In April President Biden announced he was “ending America’s longest war” by bringing US troops home from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021. If only this war were that simple. Biden isn’t really ending...
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