The last continuously serving Vietnam War draftee on active-duty is retiring from the Army. His first response was to consider moving to Canada, but his mother, Dorothy, wouldn't hear it.
Sunday's leadership elections -- approved by Moscow despite intense Western pressure -- were only the latest addition to a growing sense that rebel areas have slipped near permanently from Kiev's control.
Tibor Machan was the subject of a recent Daily Bell interview. Having grown up in Eastern Europe, in this interview he occasionally brings a perspective and insight on the issues addressed that many in the West today might not have; at times he seem
The increasingly hostile divergence of views between Turkey and the United States over Syria is testing the durability of their 60-year alliance, to the point where some are starting to question whether the two countries still can be considered allie
In 1968 the government of Canada decided to openly admit Americans seeking to avoid being drafted into the US war on Vietnam. Before, would-be immigrants were technically required to prove that they had been discharged from US military service.
The U.S. government is not one thing or one entity. It is a collection of powers and agencies, turfs and fiefdoms, each of them being captured and used.
Senator Rand Paul is everywhere: campaigning for Republican candidates during the crucial midterm elections, on Fox News explaining to Hannity why going into Iraq with ground troops is a mistake, teaming up with Cory Booker to call for reform of fede
How the tactics of occupation came home...Much has been said about the shocking "militarization" of the police, and how this seemed to many like a provocation: police in Ferguson were encased in armor that one veteran remarked was heavier than anythi
Despite the public's persistent war weariness, the U.S. defense budget – the world's biggest by far – may be set to rise again, according to a new study released here this week by the Center for International Policy (CIP).
They are doing it again. "They" are the war-party politicians, Democrats and Republicans. "It" is scaring you into supporting another war in the Middle East.
The Department of Defense's planned expurgated history of the Vietnam War to commemorate its 50th anniversary is like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark.
Advance to Barbarism, FJP Veale
The exclusion of non-combatants from the scope of hostilities is the fundamental distinction between civilized and barbarous warfare.
I know many people have no interest in watching the boob tube because 99% of the programming is either mindless drivel or government sanctioned propaganda.