War

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

Children

Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields

Karen J. Greenberg

Children around the world are suffering, increasingly unsafe, and preyed upon in ever larger numbers

Green Energy

No More Wars for Oil? Wind & Solar will reduce Energy-Related Conflicts

contributors

Political power will get more decentralised and diffused

Climate Change

Climate Sabotage & Forever Wars: Is America the Most Dangerous Country in the World?

Tom Engelhardt

On Climate Change, quagmire seems like an appropriate image, as long as we keep in mind that we are the aggressors.

War

All America’s Quagmires: Why We’re still at War in so Many Countries

William J. Astore

( Tomdispatch.com) – As America enters the 18th year of its war in Afghanistan and its 16th in Iraq, the war on terror continues in Yemen, Syria, and parts of Africa, including Libya,Niger, and Somalia. Meanwhile, the Trump administration threatens yet more war, this time with Iran. (And given these last years, just how do […]