Trillions of dollars have flowed through the Pentagon’s war budgets in the last two decades The departure of American troops from Afghanistan is being lamented (or hailed — see the Chinese press, passim) as a defeat. But this is a shortsighted attitude, at least from the point of view of the …

You get a lot of moral clarity when you realize that the US government is the most despotic and corrupt regime on the entire planet by a very wide margin. This clarity informs your perspective in a way that helps you see through a lot of the propaganda narratives that …

Despite the reality, smaller minds obviously see space as merely a extension of the fixed rules of imperial geopolitics that have been used for millenia to keep human beings locked like rats in a cage managed by oligarchs. 75 years ago, Winston Churchill delivered a speech in Fulton Missouri announcing …

The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the American empire — and nobody will be held accountable. The debacle in Afghanistan, which will unravel into chaos with lightning speed over the next few weeks and ensure the return of the Taliban …

What Americans Don’t Want To Hear. This summer, it seemed as if we Americans couldn’t wait to return to our traditional July 4th festivities. Haven’t we all been looking for something to celebrate? The church chimes in my community rang out battle hymns for about a week. The utility poles in my …

U.S. Should Stop Pushing Russia Into China’s Arms The exciting days of America as the unipower, the essential nation, the hyperpower, the sole superpower, the embodiment of worldly glory and virtue, are long over. That heady moment, evident to all after the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of …

A new GAO report finds gaping holes in oversight in the military’s unwieldy private security contractor biz. One might reasonably assume that in the over 20 years since the 9/11 attacks, the Pentagon would have finally managed to figure out how to exercise effective supervision and control over its private …

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time an atomic bomb had ever been exploded outside of testing. Three days later, the United States dropped a second nuclear bomb on Nagasaki. An estimated 110,000-210,000 people died in these attacks that changed the …

Ideas won’t matter if there is no America to preserve anyway. The International Institute for Strategic Studies recently published an article titled Misplaced Restraint: The Quincy Coalition Versus Liberal Internationalism in Survival, its house journal. The article’s authors, Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry, fire broadsides at what they call a profoundly deficient “understanding of the wellsprings …

Climate activists demand COP26 reduce military carbon emissions The dog days of summer are upon us —and the record high temperatures killing hundreds in the Pacific Northwest and bringing 118 degree heat to Siberia serve as a harbinger of even hotter, more dangerous days unless we address the elephant in the …