From guns to militarism, the national religion is the religion of us vs. them. Every bullet fired into a crowd penetrates the national soul—or so it seems to me, as I continue to grapple emotionally with the Trump rally shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, which left one attendee …

NATO’s new focus on China harkens back to the belligerent alliance’s early days. At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington, DC, last week China was a big part of the agenda. The NATO summit’s final declaration mentioned the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) 14 times. It noted that …

Since the end of the Cold War and the Clinton administration coming to power in 1992, the United States has undergone a systemic decay in its political body. Policies increasingly favor the interests of an oligarchic and powerful elite more often than not at the expense of the public. The …

It would be hard to get a more striking sense of just how deeply the century has aged than by watching two elderly men once again running for president in an American world that distinctly seems on the downhill slope. It’s not a happenstance or some sad mistake that, barring …

Preserving hegemony is no longer a possibility for Washington. Given the unstable situation in the U.S., it is worth analyzing the possible impacts of geopolitical changes on American foreign policy. Amid the elections and rising domestic social tensions, the future of the U.S. appears extremely uncertain – largely because American …

The USA in the only country in the world where there are more firearms than people. 46% of all households have a firearm. This is the average. In some places this can be over 60%. About 48,000 people die in gun-violence in a year, the majority of this being suicide …

Hawaiian Activists Call On Nations Who Condemn The Genocide In Gaza To Withdraw From Rim Of The Pacific War Games. The games are organized by the US military and illegally hosted on Hawaiian land. Every two years, the Indo-Pacific Command Center of the United States convenes the largest maritime war …

Introduction At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable. All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which categorized the nuclear bomb as “a weapon of last resort”, have been scrapped. Let us also recall the unspoken history of …

Forty years ago, Congress thought it was a good idea to fund peacemaking, but it was no match for War Inc. This year the United States Institute of Peace is 40 years old, and most Americans and U.S. government officials have little to no awareness that Congress funds an institute …

Far from serving as a stabilizing force, NATO’s presence in the Indo-Pacific would inflame regional tensions without providing increased security. Since identifying China as a “systemic challenge” in its 2022 Strategic Concept, NATO has been pursuing closer strategic and operational relations with Japan, Australia, South Korea, and New Zealand, collectively known …