The National Nuclear Security Administration has seized on safety as its ticket to secure funding for major nuclear warhead modifications.
Nuclear Weapons Stewardship a Victim of Mission Creep
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War & Peace
Impressive Taliban Attack on Embassy Eclipses Success for Afghan Security Forces
Its attack on the U.S. embassy reveals a Taliban either conflicted or divided within itself about talking with the United States.
The New Scramble for Africa
Is current U.S. foreign policy in Africa following a blueprint drawn up almost eight years ago by the right-wing Heritage Foundation, one of the most conservative think tanks in the world? Although it seems odd that a Democratic administration would have anything in common with the extremists at Heritage, the convergence in policy and practice between the two is disturbing.
Libya and the Bully Problem
Elias is Swedish and has buck teeth. These are two strikes against him at the Danish school he attends. The resident bully, along with his fawning entourage, calls Elias “Rat Face” and subjects him to endless indignities. That all changes, however, with the arrival of Christian, an exchange student who is appalled at the treatment of sweet-natured Elias. Christian follows the bully into the bathroom where he is about to inflict yet another humiliation on Elias. But this time it is Christian who metes out the punishment, hitting the bully repeatedly with a bicycle pump and threatening him with a knife if he dares to throw his weight around again.
The Motive for Terrorism That Officials Dare Not Acknowledge
During the war on terror, the military, the Pentagon and the CIA — and their political and corporate allies — have accumulated enormous resources and power in a collapsing economy.
The Military: Unlikely Advocate for Green?
When the military’s green programs achieve real success in the form of jobs created, costs reduced, and lives saved, the military will have definitively demonstrated that a viable economy is not a casualty of climate preparedness.
The Hidden Culprit of 9/11: Clinical Depression
Preventing another 9/11 — and suicide terrorism at large — requires addressing abusive childrearing techniques that may well have produced the damaged individuals responsible for it.
Ian Williams’s Lost 9/11 Chronicle, Part II
Since he lived not far from the World Trade Center, it was only natural that Canadian Broadcasting avail itself of his reporting services.
Ian Williams’s Lost 9/11 Chronicle, Part I
Since he lived not far from the World Trade Center, it was only natural that Canadian Broadcasting avail itself of his reporting services.
The Imperial Mentality and 9/11
This is, of course, the week before the tenth anniversary of the day that “changed everything.” And enough was indeed changed that it’s easy to forget what that lost world was like. Here’s a little reminder of that moment just before September 11, 2001