We once again owe the great reporter Seymour Hersh a serious debt for his reporting, in this case for his London Review…
I am going to keep pushing the U.S. war machine forward in every possible way, and the consequences be damned
When you go back 75 years to find a justification for the institution of war, the biggest public project of the United States for each of the past 75 years, you’re going back to a different world
If people would stop speaking in the first person about the crimes of their country’s military, and start identifying with all of humanity, we might achieve peace
The new film narrated by Roger Waters, The Occupation of the American Mind, traces the rise of Israeli war propaganda in the…
Two goals outweigh all others for the U.S. government: U.S. domination of the globe and arms sales
The fact is that Barack Obama has slaughtered human beings with missiles and bombs in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and Somalia
This is a story of courageous sacrifice, dedication, excitement, adventure, solidarity, and a service truly worthy of thanking the story’s hero for
This is Obama’s dream eulogy when the first drone warrior king is finally laid to rest
At the root of the new U.S. priority for overthrowing Syria is then, once again, the desire to run an oil pipeline through Syria
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