War

( Tomdispatch.com) – Hypersonic weapons close in on their targets at a minimum speed of Mach 5, five times the speed of sound or 3,836.4 miles an hour. They are among the latest entrants in an arms competition that has embroiled the United States for generations, first with the Soviet Union, today with China and […]

War

The Pain Remains: The Living Literature of War

Nick Turse

( Tomdispatch.com) – Do you remember July 8, 2011? Where you were? What you did? Whom you talked to? Anything at all? I couldn’t pin down one single thing for that day. I couldn’t even locate an email I had sent or a photo I might have taken. It’s all evidently lost in the ether, […]

Climate Change

From Concentration Camps to Environmental Collapse: How America became a Dystopian Nightmare

Andrew J. Bacevich

( Tomdispatch.com ) – [Editorial note: This remnant of a manuscript, discovered in a vault near the coastal town of Walpole, Massachusetts, appears to have been part of a larger project, probablyenvisioned as an interpretive history of the United States since the year 2000. Only a single chapter, probably written near the midpoint of the […]

Pentagon

No, Neocons, it Isn’t Always 1939, and WW II wasn’t such a ‘Good War’

Andrew J. Bacevich

(Tomdispatch.com) – How best to describe the recently completed allied commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France? Two words come immediately to mind: heartfelt and poignant. The aged D-Day veterans gathering for what was probably the last time richly deserved every bit of praise bestowed on them. Yet one particular refrain […]

Climate Change

You have an Earth, Madame, if you Can Keep It: Politics of Planetary Destruction

Tomdispatch

By David Bromwich | – (Tomdispatch.com) – More and more, we look into our screens and gizmos. And this helps us — almost as if they were made for that purpose — not to think about the weather outside. Kept busy “curating” our own lives, we are regularly spared evidence of the coming catastrophe. Long […]

War

Trump’s Plan to Pardon War Criminals is Outrageous, but the Higher-Ups were Never even Charged

Rebecca Gordon

By Rebecca Gordon | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Memorial Day has come and gone and President Trump did not issue his pardons after all. There was substantial evidence that he was planning to use the yearly moment honoring the country’s war dead to grant executive clemency to several U.S. soldiers and at least one military contractor. […]

War

The US Cult of Bombing & Endless War: Ten Tenets of Air Power That I Didn’t Learn in the Air Force

William J. Astore

( Tomdispatch.com ) – From Syria to Yemen in the Middle East, Libya to Somalia in Africa, Afghanistan to Pakistan in South Asia, an American aerial curtain has descended across a huge swath of the planet. Its stated purpose: combatting terrorism. Its primary method: constant surveillance and bombing — and yet more bombing. Its political […]

War

US Army Tweeted ‘How has Serving Impacted You?’ It didn’t Go Well.

Common Dreams

Tweet Inadvertently Triggers Responses Revealing ‘Real, Painful, and Horrifying Human Costs of War’

Donald Trump

Why did the Trump Admin. Obstruct UN Resolution against War Rape that Amal Clooney Supported?

The Conversation

Trump is a vulgar libertine with overwhelming support from evangelicals