The Trump administration maintains that the government of Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb. The reason? Because the leaders of that land are allegedly lunatics. The primary concern appears to be that dissident factions sponsored by Iran—including Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis—could wreak untold devastation, were they to gain access to such weapons of mass destruction (WMD). In reality, the only government which has ever explicitly and credibly threatened to deploy WMD against entire populations of mostly innocent people is that of the United States of America. Not only...

As outrageous as the comportment of the current U.S. president may be to many people throughout the world, there is a silver lining to Donald Trump’s endless series of threats, whether overt or implied, against the citizens of Canada, Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, Colombia, Cuba, and beyond. In a matter of months, Trump has succeeded in revealing what many antiwar critics have been pointing out for years. The fact that plausible moral pretexts for military intervention can be devised and disseminated through the use of persuasive rhetoric—state-promulgated propaganda—in no way demonstrates...

“I don’t think we’re gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We’re gonna kill them. You know? They’re gonna be like dead. Okay.”- President Donald Trump, October 23, 2025 As of today, the Trump administration has launched missile strikes on at least nineteen boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, terminating the lives of more than seventy unnamed persons identified at the time of their deaths only as "narcoterrorists." The administration has claimed that the homicides are legal because...

The U.S. government has been executing suspected terrorists without indictment, much less trial, since the dawning of the Drone Age, on November 3, 2002. On that day, the George W. Bush administration used a Predator drone to dispatch six alleged terrorist suspects in a car driving down a road in Yemen, far from any battlefield. This unprecedented act of extrajudicial execution was precipitated by the attacks on U.S. soil of September 11, 2001, which set the stage for a new, sanguinary, period of military history. Officials such as John Brennan, Barack Obama’s CIA director, and former CEO...