Randolph Bourne, who broke with his Progressive comrades a century ago and opposed Woodrow Wilson on US entry into the Great War, is famous for writing, “War is the health of the state.” He also wrote this:
“Willing war means willing all the evils that are organically bound up with it.”
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United Nations officials are warning that displacement figures in the West Bank are at their highest levels since 1967 when Israel’s illegal occupation began. This is due to the skyrocketing killings, violence, and property theft against Palestinians perpetrated by...
The intertwining of military aid, global alliances, and political positioning takes center stage as Dave DeCamp, news editor at AntiWar.com, joins Kyle Anzalone to unpack the most pressing foreign policy developments happening beneath mainstream headlines. Trump's...
“War,” Randolph Bourne wrote, is “the health of the state.” But war is also, it has recently and quietly become clear, the cheapest and quickest antidote when the state gets sick. This antidote, in fact, represents the most significant part of President Donald Trump’s...
