Joe Biden’s 2022 defense budget proposal, for instance, is $754 billion, up $14 billion from Trump’s last defense budget

Is it asking too much that the media bring values, at least as deep as the U.N. Charter, to its reporting, when it comes to matters of war and peace?

Bombs and missiles are one thing, but the United States and its allies have learned how to soften their effect with public relations

Racism remains embedded in its social infrastructure. Much of the country is “protected” by an occupying army

We not only wage war, we celebrate it. We sing about it. It’s no wonder that so many lost souls trying to reclaim their lives embrace this myth and project their troubles beyond themselves, onto others, then find a gun

Deb Haaland brings a different set of values, and a different understanding of Planet Earth, into the game

“For Washington, it seems that whatever the problem is, the answer is bombing.”

The cornerstone of every social structure is its belief system, and those who control and benefit the most from the system have one primary job: Keep its myths and scapegoats viable

One recent and shocking – but hardly surprising – piece of news is the huge scramble in legislatures, especially the Republican-controlled ones, all across the country to draft and pass legislation restricting the ability of Americans (some of them, anyway) to vote

They did not come prepared to seek understanding, then act from that understanding