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Unpopularity of war puts $1.5 trillion defense budget in crosshairs
The debates in the Senate and House Armed Services Committees this month over this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Pentagon’s annual…
Congress loves to buy failed jets and ships then make your kids pay
As Congress debates the 2027 defense budget, members must confront an essential reality: their children and grandchildren will be left footing the bill….
Don’t be fooled by the new China-North Korea love fest
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang earlier this month celebrated their decades-long alliance, with both…
The forgotten fugitives of US forever wars
To commemorate World Refugee Day (June 20) without confronting the American militarism driving the crisis is just plain hypocrisy. Data from the United…
Hyper-militarized ‘war on narco-terror’ is not stopping drug flows
For the past year, the Trump administration has undertaken a lethal campaign of strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern…
Old Iraq war architects rise up to wag finger at Trump’s Iran deal
Assume, for the sake of argument, that you think the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) just signed by President Donald Trump in Versailles…
Trump ended his idiotic Iran war. Good.
I have spent years fighting against Trump’s push toward war with Iran, and I have the scars to prove it. When Trump withdrew…
Meet the biggest winner of the war with Iran
After months of on-and-off talks, Iran and the United States are set to end their war and sign an interim peace agreement on…
The Strait of Hormuz to re-open. Now what?
In a flurry of diplomatic activity over the last days, Iran and the U.S. appear at last to have reached an initial agreement…
After the Iran War, is UAE the odd man out?
The roles played by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey in facilitating the “Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding” underscore the extent to which regional…
