Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? These questions should be addressed in a national debate over the U.S. military involvement in Ukraine and Israel. Sadly, there …

From Jeff Bezos to Elon Musk, America’s oligarchs are using media control to shape politics, grow profits, and destroy the prospect of a better future for all. I cancelled my Washington Post subscription Friday evening. Jeff Bezos, Mister “Democracy Dies In Darkness” (the Post’s slogan on their masthead), by blocking …

New research finds that dark money think tanks still dominate committee witness lists A video on Congress.gov, overlayed with an uplifting guitar melody, explains what committee hearings are supposed to do; A hearing “provides a forum at which committee members and the public can hear about the strengths and weaknesses of a proposal from …

The Intercept followed AIPAC’s money trail to reveal how its political spending impacts the balance of power in Congress. For decades, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee had been an influential presence on Capitol Hill, working behind the scenes to lobby politicians and their staffers in support of Israel. But ahead …

The 2024 presidential election should be seen as part of a longer-term political conflict that will end with either the eradication or the restoration of the country’s historical racial hierarchy. The Republican Party’s lurch toward authoritarianism and pursuit of minority rule cannot be understood in any other terms. CAMBRIDGE – …

Far from being a stabilizing force, the deployment of these missiles raises the stakes for everyone involved, including American military personnel and bases stationed in the region. This month, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin authorized the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to Israel, along with …

The US National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) has reportedly recently manufactured its first plutonium core since 1989 with the stated aim of renewing all its warheads. The Department of Defense plans to incorporate it into the W87-1 warhead of the intercontinental ballistic missile Sentinel and its production will be increased …

It hardly matters what day you check out which news report when it comes to Gaza or now Lebanon. Amid the accounts of chaos and further destruction, there are always the children, even if often hidden away in the odd paragraph somewhere in the piece. Take a typical New York Times report on …

At the current spending rate, in another generation we will have a lot of rich contractors and no aircraft or Naval fleets to speak of A basic truth in Washington is that almost every single new weapon system ends up costing significantly more than the one it is replacing. As …

Order Out of Chaos – ‘E Pluribus Unem’–  thanks to its being imprinted on the US Dollar bill, is a well known epithet. It is accompanied by a pyramid in whose apex is embedded the all seeing Eye of Horus. You won’t find a more stark symbol of the ambition of the …