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The Misuse of American Military Power and Mideast Chaos

By Danny Sjursen | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - The United States has already lost -- its war for the Middle East, that is. Having taken my own crack at combat soldiering in…

Pentagon To Recommend US Deploy Ground Troops in Syria?

TeleSur | - - Countries opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will meet on Friday for the first time since Donald Trump's U.S. administration took office. The U.S. Defense Department may recommend…

Could Trump’s War of Words with China turn Hot?

By Rajan Menon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Forget those “bad hombres down there” in Mexico that U.S. troops might take out. Ignore the way National Security Adviser Michael Flynn put…

Yemen withdraws blanket approval for US action after Trump’s botched Raid

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The the Arab press, reports that that government has withdrawn blanket permission from the Trump administration to conduct raids and drone strikes on…

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. …

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.…

Along with pardoning Manning, Obama should have repealed 1917 Espionage Act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…

US Iraq-Afghanistan ‘Burn Pits’ – Poisoning America’s Soldiers

Reviewed by H. Patricia Hynes | (Truthdig) | - - “The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers” A book by Joseph Hickman They are called “this generation’s Agent Orange”—the open fire…

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,…

Mr. Trump: Government and War are too Serious to be entrusted to the Generals

By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - America has always had a love affair with its generals. It started at the founding of the republic with George Washington…

Why is the US at War in Yemen and will Trump Escalate?

By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - The long national nightmare that was the 2016 presidential election is finally over. Now, we’re facing a worse terror: the reality of a…

All the President’s Men: The Warmongering Washington Blob is Back

By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Shortly after taking office in 1969, President Richard Nixon devised his “madman theory.” It was the height of the Vietnam War,…

The Election that Changed everything and Could be History’s Deal-Breaker

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - For decades, Washington had a habit of using the Central Intelligence Agency to deep-six governments of the people, by the people, and for…

Trump’s Pentagon Hunger Games: The Generals “haven’t done the job.”

By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com | - - President-elect Donald Trump’s message for the nation’s senior military leadership is ambiguously unambiguous. Here is he on 60 Minutes just days after…

Will Trump bolster the Military-Industrial Complex?

By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - As with so much of what Donald Trump has said in recent months, his positions on Pentagon spending are, to be…

Will Trump really be Isolationist? Or will he March us to War?

By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - “So is he going to win?” The question washed over me as I slumped in my hard plastic chair. I had passed the day…

US Goes to War with Houthis in Yemen (Openly)

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US Navy in the Red Sea fired Tomahawk missiles into Yemen early Thursday morning, taking out three radar stations. Those facilities had…

Iraq: Bush DoD paid PR Firm millions to Plant fake I.S. Videos, False Stories

By Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith | ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism ) | - - The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run…

If Spec Ops are the future of the US Military, it isn’t Winning many Wars

By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Americans expect to be number one. First Lady Michelle Obama recently called the United States the “greatest country on Earth.” (Take that, world public opinion, and your…

America’s New Reality: Mad Bombers, Merchants of Death, & Lawmaking Harlots

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Recently, sorting through a pile of old children’s books, I came across a volume, That Makes Me Mad!, which brought back memories.…