Biden team ratchets up counter-terrorism talk — but to what end?
Has it occurred to anyone that the rise of extremists in more places is proof that the GWOT has backfired spectacularly?
Has it occurred to anyone that the rise of extremists in more places is proof that the GWOT has backfired spectacularly?
Congress’s blank check helped launched conflicts, many currently ongoing, that have nothing to do with the terrorist attacks.
The seeds of destruction were already planted with prior decades of colonialism propping up corrupt, weak governments.
While a country grieved, a surveillance state bloomed and began eating away at our basic Constitutional liberties.
In new book, Spencer Ackerman shows how the post-9/11 Global War on Terror gave us neither the peace or stability it promised.
Former Air Force analyst Daniel Hale is going to jail for revealing the extent to which US drones kill civilians.
The War on Terror-era neocon is at it again, scolding America for withdrawing from Afghanistan and advocating we stay in the game.
What would our world actually be like if you simply declared peace and came home?
The administration is applying greater oversight across the range of military operations. Such oversight does not imply the end of the endless wars.
The Afghan War made a pivotal and particularly mournful contribution, definitively exposing as delusionary claims of U.S. military supremacy.
‘Like it or not,’ the United States is a superpower, and according to this primacist, the military is key to preserving that order.
Most of the suffering doesn’t happen in the moment of combat amid the bullets, bombs, and IEDs on America’s foreign battlefields.
The way war drives our scourges at home and exacerbates the fissures, escapes many. MLK knew better.
Just look at the disastrous regime wars and persecution of Muslims after 9/11 to sense where this could go.
Americans today are prisoners to a culture of endless war, militarism, and ever-rising defense spending.
Time for a critical reckoning with the War on Terror and the global Islamophobia that fueled it.
The Emirates have managed to frame suppression of domestic dissent as counterterrorism, and the U.S. says nothing.
Even as he’s reducing the number of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, Donald Trump is expanding and deepening the War on Terror — and making it deadlier.
Donald Trump’s feelings of invulnerability are partly rooted in America’s failure to hold anyone responsible for crimes committed in the “war on terror.”