Inside the Devastation of America's Drone Wars
• Pratap Chatterjee and Tom EngelhardtIn our part of the world, it's not often that potential "collateral damage" speaks, but it happened last week.
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In our part of the world, it's not often that potential "collateral damage" speaks, but it happened last week.
The Matriarch of the pro-life, pro-family, Christian Right movement is the elegant stateswoman Phyllis Schlafly. She has no peer; there is no close second. At age 91, she remains the icon of America's pro-life community.
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The Baltic Sea, South China Sea, North Korea, the Black Sea, Russia, China, Iran -- it seems the US faces "threats" from enemies everywhere. Do they hate us because we are so rich and free? Or might it have something to do with the US military being
With the dispatch of 200 more troop to Iraq, bringing the total to some 4,000, the buildup to the Third Mideast War is approaching its climax.
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It took two warmongering politicians to unleash the "shit storm" that the U.S. created in Libya: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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Moral obtuseness led us into the delta in Vietnam--and later the deserts of the Middle East.
This week, SU-24 fighter-bombers buzzed a U.S. destroyer in the Baltic Sea. The Russian planes carried no missiles or bombs.
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If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, Washington's Syria policy is a textbook case of abject lunacy. Just as the Syrian government has ISIS on the run in eastern Syria, the US is shipping
Let's face it: in times of war, the Constitution tends to take a beating. With the safety or survival of the nation said to be at risk, the basic law of the land -- otherwise considered sacrosanct -- becomes nonbinding, subject to being waived at
Hillary Clinton and CIA director David Petraeus had a brilliant idea: they would fund, arm, and train a proxy army in Syria, overthrow the regime of strongman Bashar al-Assad, and jump on the rapidly moving train of the "Arab Spring" to extend US
Elders who fled the holocaust in the 1940's write letters of hope to Syrian refugees.
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Although we are seemingly in a permanent war, the US Congress has been AWOL in fulfilling its Constitutional responsibilities. They would rather hide behind the false idea that the president as commander-in-chief somehow has the ability to authorize
US Central Command intelligence analysts claim the military has punished them for coming to conclusions at odds with Pentagon leadership over the viability of US-backed rebel groups in Syria. Are we seeing the Iraq fiasco all over again?
Last week Defense Secretary Ashton Carter laid a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington in commemoration of the "50th anniversary" of that war.
Much has been written about just war theory in recent years--some of it to justify the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and some of it to condemn them. Robert Meagher does neither. He weighs just war theory in the balances and finds it wanting.
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Once upon a time, if a war was going to destroy your world, it had to take place in your world. The soldiers had to land, the planes had to fly overhead, the ships had to be off the coast. No longer.
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The Express reports, VLADIMIR Putin sent Russian mercenaries to fight in Ukraine and Syria in secret black ops missions he could deny any involvement in, a report has claimed.