National Security State

(Tomdispatch.com) – When you think about it, Earth is a relatively modest-sized planet — about 25,000 miles in circumference at the Equator, with a total surface area of 197 million square miles, almost three-quarters of which is water. It’s not so hard, if you’re in a certain frame of mind (as American officials were after […]

Donald Trump

The Irrelevance of Trump: America was a Plutocratic Nat’l Security State and Still Is

Andrew J. Bacevich

Boston ( Tomdispatch.com) – Donald Trump’s tenure as the 45th U.S. president may last another few weeks, another year, or another 16 months. However unsettling the prospect, the leaky vessel that is the S.S. Trump might even manage to stay afloat for a second term. Nonetheless, recent headline-making revelations suggest that, like some derelict ship […]

Climate Change

Is America Sclerotic or still Youthful Enough to take on Imperial Presidency and Climate Change?

Tom Engelhardt

There was a period in my later life when I used to say that, from the age of 20 to my late sixties, I was always 40 years old; I was, that is, an old young man and a young old one. Tell that to my legs now. Of course, there’s nothing faintly strange in […]

National Security State

For 40 Million US Working Poor, Trillion-Dollar Foreign Military Adventures Don’t Bring Security

Rajan Menon

The greatest threat day-to-day threat for millions of Americans isn’t terrorism or North Korea, it’s economic insecurity

National Security State

The Escalating Tragedy of American Imperial Overstretch

Tom Engelhardt

One of these days we may be facing “regime change” on a planetary scale

National Security State

When “Infinite War” becomes a Gravy Train in the United States of Amnesia

Andrew J. Bacevich

We’re repeating the Costly Mistakes of WW I Today

National Security State

Terrorizing ourselves Silly: Surreal Pentagon Nightmares underpin $700 bn Budget

Nick Turse

Military war games anticipated many of the fears articulated in Trump’s December 2017 National Security Strategy

Donald Trump

Should Trump Have the Discretion to Murder at Will? His Drones Are at It

Rebecca Gordon

The post-9/11 Authorization for the Use of Military Force is still used as justification for an expanding drone program

Militarization

America’s Forever Wars as Spectator Sport

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By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The purpose of all wars, is peace. So observed St. Augustine early in the first millennium A.D. Far be it from me to disagree with the esteemed Bishop of Hippo, but his crisply formulated aphorism just might require a bit of updating. I’m not a […]