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Archives: National Security State
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Is Steven Bannon marching America toward Messianic Apocalypse?
By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - What does it mean for international relations when the most powerful country in the world becomes a pariah state? [In] Der…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/prophets-130x137.gif)
Trump’s 5th Bankruptcy: Budget-Busting Trillions to US Department of War
By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - At over $600 billion a year and counting, the Pentagon already receives significantly more than its fair share of federal funds. …![German Ambassador 1933: “Hostility to Jews Aimed Mainly at ‘Immigrants'”](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/german-ambassador-1933-hostility-187x137.jpg)
German Ambassador 1933: “Hostility to Jews Aimed Mainly at ‘Immigrants'”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Here are two newspaper articles from spring, 1933. They concern the issue of early Nazi policy toward Germany's Jews. In the first, the…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/blnd2-1-187x137.png)
This time Dr. Strangelove is President: On the Political Psychology of Donald Trump
By Daniel Brumberg | (Informed Comment) | - - Is Donald Trump rational? Is he sane? Often posed before his election, this question is now a matter of urgent debate among commentators,…![Trump Is Carpet-Bombing . . . U.S. Foreign Policy](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/trump-is-carpet-bombing-u-s-fore-187x137.jpg)
Trump Is Carpet-Bombing . . . U.S. Foreign Policy
By Phyllis Bennis | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | - - Already Trump is super-charging U.S. militarism, gutting diplomacy, and punishing the victims of wars Washington started. Very soon, Donald…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/splinterlandspbk-2-180x137.jpg)
From Ugly American to American Bully
By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - I came of age during America's Cold War with the Soviet Union, witnessing its denouement while serving in the U.S. military.…![Your Presidency Sucks: The Republican Party and its Orange Bunny](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/your-presidency-sucks-the-republ-187x137.jpg)
Your Presidency Sucks: The Republican Party and its Orange Bunny
By David Faris | (Informed Comment) | - - When the late Roger Ebert saw director Vincent Gallo’s film The Brown Bunny at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003, he gave it…![Along with pardoning Manning, Obama should have repealed 1917 Espionage Act](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/along-with-pardoning-manning-oba-187x137.jpg)
Along with pardoning Manning, Obama should have repealed 1917 Espionage Act
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In a daring and bold move that showed his profound humanitarian side, President Obama has commuted the 35-year sentence of Chelsea Manning, a…![Dangers of Trump’s Militarization of Government](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/dangers-of-trumps-militarization-187x137.jpg)
Dangers of Trump’s Militarization of Government
By Rut Diamint | (The Conversation) | - - Should Latin Americans be concerned that Donald Trump has picked General John Kelly to lead the United States Department of Homeland Security? Kelly…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/assange-1-187x137.jpg)
Assange Agrees to Extradition if US Releases Chelsea Manning
TeleSur | - - Manning is currently serving a 35-year sentence in solitary confinement for handing over 700,000 sensitive documents from the U.S. State Department. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will agree to…![All the President’s Deniers](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/all-the-presidents-deniers-187x137.jpg)
All the President’s Deniers
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - This week, we've seen a parade of Donald J. Trump's far-right cabinet appointees attempting to tone themselves down (with help from pliant GOP…![Last Year the US Dropped 26,171 Bombs on 7 Muslim-Majority Countries](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/last-year-the-us-dropped-26171-b-187x137.jpg)
Last Year the US Dropped 26,171 Bombs on 7 Muslim-Majority Countries
TeleSur | - - The countries include Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. In the waning days of the Obama administration, new research by the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR,…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/bacevichamericaswar-180x137.jpg)
How the Arrogance of Cold War Triumph brought us this Low
By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - The fall of the Berlin Wall in October 1989 abruptly ended one historical era and inaugurated another. So, too, did the…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/51988225-1-187x137.jpg)
Comey should be fired if it’s the last thing Obama Does
By William W. Keller | (Informed Comment) | - - James Comey is keeping a low profile these days. Not even a peep. Not even after the FBI, CIA, and NSA finally…![Those Times the NSA Hacked America’s Allies](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/those-times-the-nsa-hacked-ameri-187x137.jpg)
Those Times the NSA Hacked America’s Allies
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The hysteria about Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee servers and the phishing scam run on Hillary…![Circus of Liars: How Trump & GOP are Twisted into Pretzels over Putin Hack](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/circus-of-liars-how-trump-gop-ar-187x137.jpg)
Circus of Liars: How Trump & GOP are Twisted into Pretzels over Putin Hack
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald J. Trump has picked another fight with the elders of his own Republican Party, over whether Russia engaged in hacking aimed at…![GOP Russia Hawks attack Trump: McCain Says he Must ‘Stand Up’ to Putin](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/gop-russia-hawks-attack-trump-mc-187x137.jpg)
GOP Russia Hawks attack Trump: McCain Says he Must ‘Stand Up’ to Putin
TeleSur | - - On Friday, Trump congratulated Putin for not retaliating to Obama's expulsions. On the same day a top aide to President-elect Donald Trump said the White House may have…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/splinterlandspbk-2-180x137.jpg)
President Big Brother: 1984 is 32 Years Late
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Can you doubt that we’re in a dystopian age, even if we’re still four weeks from Donald Trump entering the Oval Office?…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170224182808im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/gordonnuremberg-180x137.jpg)