Middle East

Well, once again we have Veterans Day upon us. With it comes the preponderance of overt militarism and military propaganda. Tune into any sporting event on the boob tube and you get the camouflaged soldiers and ROTC students (if a college game) staring into the camera. After all, aren’t we …

“As we celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is tragic that so many new walls have been built across Europe to keep out the most vulnerable people on our planet.”

Voter suppression as a tactic – from strict ID laws to closing polling places to purging voter rolls – is deliberately making it hard for minority communities in America to exercise their democratic right

Drones might undo the stealth advantages of nuclear submarines.

Defense secretary says national effort on par with World War II and space race needed to prevent Chinese military gaining ‘decisive advantage’

We are told that “as of September 24, 2019, 334 mass shootings have occurred in 2019… In these shootings, 1,347 people were injured and 377 died.

A growing share of people around the world see U.S. power and influence as a “major threat” to their country, and these views are linked with attitudes toward President Donald Trump and the United States as a whole, according to Pew Research Center surveys conducted in 22 nations since 2013.

 The pervasive bullying so far has not been matched by a comparable degree of positive results, as many have noticed.

The low-ball mudslinging and pantomime palaver among America’s political class is like a theater of absurd. Any form of vilification is now acceptable. President Trump and his Twitter rants may have helped set the bar of indecency to an all-time low, but Democrats and Republicans have quickly joined the descent …

In practice, the US has on occasion encountered difficulty in its Imperial progress, most often due to country leaders proving resistant to American colonization. In such cases, if payments of cash and the promise of free weapons fail to turn a patriot into a traitor, the obstacle must unfortunately be …