With friends like the Pentagon, the environment has no need of enemies, real or imagined
David Swanson
Assume that the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen are not people. Read news reports on the wars not ending. See if they don’t make a lot more sense that way.
Here’s all I ask regarding the project of keeping the promise to end the endless wars: End a fucking war. That’s it. Pick one and end it. Now
The USA Today has gone beyond the limits of every other big corporate U.S. media outlet, and beyond what any member of the U.S. Congress has done, in a big new series of articles on wars, bases, and militarism
Universality strengthens support for maintaining a program into the future, rather than opening up the means to chip away at it until it’s gone
It matters because a precedent has to be set for presidents who try to overturn elections through fraudulent actions, dishonest demagoguery, and the instigation of violence
I’m old enough to remember when drone murders were shocking. Heck, I even recall a few people calling them murders
Before Neera Tanden can become Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Senators must approve. And before that, they must ask questions. Here are some suggestions for what they should ask
Either everything will change for the better or one or both of the twin dangers of environmental and nuclear apocalypse will change everything for the worse
Can we make opposing militarism mainstream, respectable, acceptable? Can we make warmongering marginal, shameful, despicable? We have to try