Senate Votes to End Support for Saudi War in Yemen
45 years after War Powers Act, a first successful challenge
In a vote on Thursday, the Senate passed S.J. Resolution 54, in a vote of 56-41. The resolution is a War Powers Act challenge to...
Hunting Human Beings is not The Good Life: Brett Velicovich´s Drone Warrior
I saw reported somewhere that 50% of books purchased are never actually read—at least not to the end. I have also noticed in my own reading of contemporary books that many of them start...
Trump’s Sanctions Meet His Trade War
President Trump’s sanctions against Iran have just intersected with his trade war against China. The intersection comes in the form of the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, an executive with Huawei Technologies, one of the...
Washington’s Dangerous Ukraine Entanglement
Dangerous tensions between Russia and Ukraine are spiking again. The latest catalyst was a November 25 clash between Russian and Ukrainian warships in the Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea to the Sea...
Gen. Dunford: US Must Stay in Afghanistan or Get Another 9/11
With war fatigue finally setting in a generation into the US occupation of Afghanistan, there is talk of negotiating a peace deal, or withdrawing. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford opposes this...
TGIF: War Over Ukraine?
Today, the United States and Allies conducted an extraordinary flight under the Open Skies Treaty. The timing of this flight is intended to reaffirm U.S. commitment to Ukraine and other partner nations.
The United States...
Just Another War Movie
There is a bitter beauty to the uniformed misery of men as they cut through the jungles or trudge into the mud, their unique characters entertaining us, the engaged voyeur. The captivating arcs of...
Trump Foreign Policy: Doing the Same Thing and Expecting a Different Result
After a week of insisting that a meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Argentina was going to happen, President Trump at the last minute sent out a Tweet explaining...
Trump: Experts All Say US Troops Need to Stay in Afghanistan
With three US troops killed in Afghanistan earlier this week, President Trump was pressed on the matter of why, 17+ years in, the US military remains in the country. He told interviewers that “every...
TGIF: Gassing Migrants
The Trump administration and its apologists are quick to point out that Barack Obama was as willing as Donald Trump himself to tear-gas desperate people trying to protect themselves by crossing America’s southern border....
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