NATO & G8 Imperialism
NATO & G8 Imperialism NATO (or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is, according to its website, a political and military alliance founded in 1949 to protect its member states from attacks by...
View ArticleReduce the U.S. Military to a Defensive Force
Dannel Mccollom DEFENSE To say that I am unimpressed with the President’s latest announcement regarding the department of defense is a colossal understatement. What is especially troubling is the...
View ArticleNATO & G8 Imperialism
NATO (or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is, according to its website, a political and military alliance founded in 1949 to protect its member states from attacks by non-member states. It...
View ArticleShooting the Messenger: Reflections on the Court Martial of Whistle Blower...
I spent five days in and around Fort Meade military base in Maryland, attending the first two days of the court martial of the whistleblower, Bradley Manning. The trial started on June 3rd, after he...
View ArticleUS Labor Against the War
The level of violence in Iraq is rapidly escalating and the country is falling apart. There are calls for sending back US troops. Syria’s catastrophic civil war is being fueled by arms shipments from...
View ArticleThe Assault on Gaza
Throughout the current Israel’s assault on Gaza, President Obama, the Congress, and the media have been sounding off the mantra of “Israel’s right to defend itself” against rockets from Gaza—a...
View ArticleAlternative to U.S.-Led War
Sarah Lazare is a staff writer for Common Dreams and an independent journalist whose work has been featured in The Nation, Al Jazeera, TomDispatch, Yes! Magazine, and more. She is also an...
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 ArticleThe 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 ArticleThe Assault on Gaza
Throughout the current Israel’s assault on Gaza, President Obama, the Congress, and the media have been sounding off the mantra of “Israel’s right to defend itself” against rockets from Gaza—a...
View ArticleAlternative to U.S.-Led War
Sarah Lazare is a staff writer for Common Dreams and an independent journalist whose work has been featured in The Nation, Al Jazeera, TomDispatch, Yes! Magazine, and more. She is also an...
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”...
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