Chris Hellman, Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch.com. May 22, 2012.
If you've heard a number for how much the U.S. spends on the military, it's probably in the neighborhood of $530 billion. But that's merely the beginning of it.
The CIA’s global drone assassination campaign has long been a bragging point in Washington, even if it couldn’t officially be discussed directly before, say, Congress.
If Obama is the president of next to nothing on the domestic policy front, he has the powers previously associated with the gods when it comes to war-making abroad.
William D. Hartung, TomDispatch.com. March 20, 2012.
When it comes to the American military, the leading Republican presidential candidates evidently only learned to add and multiply, never subtract or divide.
In 2012 it looks like we can expect the Obama administration to continue to barrel down the path that has already taken us far from the country we used to be.
The troops are protesting "by any other means" their entrapment in a no-win landscape where Washington politicians keep a war going beyond the limit of sanity.
Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus. February 28, 2012.
Netanyahu may calculate that an election-season Israeli attack might force the Obama administration to back a war and/or damage Obama’s re-election chances.
Adam Hochschild, TomDispatch.com. February 26, 2012.
The First World War is suddenly everywhere in pop culture, from "War Horse" to "Downton Abbey" but why do all the portrayals miss the people who fought for peace?
Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch.com. February 19, 2012.
A war that once occupied center stage in national politics has now slipped to the periphery, with legal and moral questions raised by the war left dangling in midair.
Drones crossed into a new frontier in military affairs: an area of entirely risk-free, remote and even potentially automated killing detached from human behavioral cues.
