How Many Dead Kids Before We Admit US ‘National Security’ Is a Lie?
A new defense budget looms. Maybe we're running out of wars to fight, but no matter. The proposed figure before Congress is bigger than ever: $778 billion. How fascinating – and how irrelevant – that the vote is scheduled just a few days after the New York...
Haiti and Ecuador: Two Plays, One Plot
Though their long histories of wishing America would leave them alone and of trying to assert their own democratic voice are uniquely their own, the recent story of American interference in Haiti and Ecuador seem to be following the same plot. Act I: The Coup In...
Joe Biden Said He Was Against Endless Wars: But His Defense Secretary Is for Endless Entanglement
Can’t America ever walk away? Like an abused spouse, Washington keeps returning to the Middle East and prostrating itself before vicious dictatorships, antediluvian monarchies, sectarian oppressors, lazy looters, and selfish aggressors. Washington’s latest kowtow to...
US Policy on Taiwan Is a False and Dangerous Two-Step
On November 15, US president Joe Biden and Chinese president Xi Jinping held a “virtual summit” covering a number of subjects and resulting, for the most part, in banal public pledges of “cooperation” to “ease tensions.” Biden,...
Conscripting Women Will Produce Equal Slavery, Not Equal Rights
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) may as well declare the 1984 doublespeak maxim, "Freedom is slavery," as she cites women’s rights in support of subjecting them to forced military conscription. Her amendment – requiring female Americans to register with...
Iraq Daily Roundup: 17 Killed
From Pegasus to Blue Wolf: How Israel’s ‘Security’ Experiment in Palestine Became Global
The revelation, a few years ago, that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been conducting mass surveillance on millions of Americans has re-ignited the conversation on governments' misconduct and their violation of human rights and privacy laws. Until recently,...
The Difference Between US and Chinese Foreign Policy in a Word
On November 15, US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met for a three and a half hour virtual discussion. Though little of real significance was accomplished, for talks held with a hope of cooling a second cold war, that both sides simply described the...
US Killer Drone Attacks Kill Innocent Civilians
As a people represented by our government, what gives us the right to go into other countries and indiscriminately assassinate people? Do we think that "American exceptionalism" gives us that right? How would we feel if the roles were reversed? Families...
