Not only did we waste $6.4 trillion, we continue to wast trillions more on war industries that don’t actually do us any good or make us perceptibly safer. by Juan Cole, published at Common Dreams...
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Coronavirus is Killing More Americans than 20 Years of War in Vietnam
It took 20 years for the US to lose 58,220 to the war in Vietnam. In less than four months, just as many will have died from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Peace & Planet News Issue #1, Spring 2020, now online
The entire issue is now available online. Print, view, and share the PDF of Issue #1.
A New Pentagon Papers or the Same old Almost Endless War?
Howard Machtinger's commentary on the Washington Post's "Afghanistan Papers," published March 2, 2020 at Portside.com....
Creating a National Insecurity State: Spending More, Seeing Less
Originally published March 1, 2020 by TomDispatch.com, with this Tomgram: Mandy Smithberger, Letting the Pentagon...
Risk of Nuclear War Rises
As reported on Democracy Now! February 7, 2020: U.S. Deploys a New Nuclear Weapon for the First Time Since the Cold...
The Art of the Deal, Pentagon-Style
This article was originally posted with accompanying Tomgram introduction on February 4, 2020, at TomDispatch.com....
Boondoggle, Inc.: Making Sense of the $1.25 Trillion National Security State Budget
A careful look at the real totals of U.S. defense expenditures from a May 2019 article from Tom Dispatch. Let's keep...
Many Soldiers Want to Stop Fighting. Let’s Build a Movement That Welcomes Them.
This piece by Rory Fanning, a veteran twice deployed to Afghanistan with the 2nd Army Ranger Battalion over a decade...
Noam Chomsky: US Is a Rogue State and Suleimani’s Assassination Confirms It
C.J. Polychroniou conducted the following interview with Noam Chomsky, published by Truthout on January 7, 2020. It's...
With Iran, Trump Throws Matches in the Gas Tank
"As we are caught up in the moment, here on the knife’s edge, it would be easy to forget how we got here, how we set...
Short-term Tough Guy, Long-term International Menace
This piece by Vietnam veteran John Grant was originally posted January 4, 2020 on the blog, This Can't Be Happening...
Trump Threatens Afghan Armageddon
Read the original Tomgram with Tom's intro as posted by author Nick Turse January 5, 2020, on TomDispatch.com. By Nick...
VIPS Memo: Doubling Down Into Another “March of Folly”?
“We write with a sense of urgency suggesting you avoid doubling down on catastrophe,” VIPS tells Donald Trump in its...
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