Day of reckoning for the media handmaidens of war
It’s clear now that the invasion of Iraq and the 20-year GWOT couldn’t have happened without the Fourth Estate’s complicity.
It’s clear now that the invasion of Iraq and the 20-year GWOT couldn’t have happened without the Fourth Estate’s complicity.
The seeds of destruction were already planted with prior decades of colonialism propping up corrupt, weak governments.
The first American charged under the Espionage Act after the attacks asks whether empire has permanently replaced the republic.
While a country grieved, a surveillance state bloomed and began eating away at our basic Constitutional liberties.
Humanitarian assistance cannot depend on whether the insurgent group forms a government or what it looks like.
But it was a trap laid by Osama bin Laden that only Washington could spring. And it did.
For President Bush, the only option was revenge, but an alternative path was available.
Everyone except the military industrial complex lost the ‘war on terror.’
A $23.9 billion addition to the NDAA would have a greater longterm impact than Congress wants to acknowledge.
One can only surmise that a combination of saber rattling and fear mongering over China has truly had an effect.
The Taliban may be talked out of poppy production if the price is right.
Congress is ahead of the Biden administration with a proposal to cut military aid.
Reports that a key reactor has been restarted indicates Kim Jong Un is frustrated with Biden’s lack of diplomatic urgency. Is he right?
The foreign policy elite are focused on defending their reputations and privileges, not in confronting failure in Afghanistan.
CACI is a well-known company with a $907 million contract in Afghanistan — it also has undisclosed ties to think tanks opposed to withdrawal.
The administration is going to have to do a lot more than to troll China to show it’s diplomatically engaged with the region.
Start by asking who benefited from the protracted war, a question that will elicit uncomfortable truths about Washington.
Taiwan has increasingly become a test, though Japan’s interest in strengthening its security goes beyond Taipei.
Billions of dollars of US materiel is now in the Taliban’s hands; but which leader will be taken to task for it, or for anything?
It’s as predictable as the sun rising and setting, but that doesn’t mean we have to accept the games that the Congress and Pentagon play.
Biden is getting attacked on all sides for putting its ‘credibility’ on the Taiwan issue at risk. Will he cave to it?