With its huge advertising budget, the Pentagon’s turning war into just another game.
Sorry, but the Super Bowl Promotes War
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War & Peace
U.S. Needs to Think Twice Before Reprising the Cold War
We barely survived the Cold War with Russia — do we want to go through that again?
Latest Round of Syrian Peace Talks Stumbles Out of the Blocks
Washington has been focused on deposing Syrian President Assad to secure oil fields and pipeline corridors for Western oil companies.
The Evil Genie U.S. Let Out of Bottle in Iraq Continues His Rampage
As time passes, whatever responsibility Americans took for atrocities in Iraq, which are ongoing, has almost completely disappeared.
The Candidate Our Foreign Policy Deserves
Our foreign policy is aggressive, parochial, and hard-hearted. Unless voters finally demand differently, our next president will be the same.
Let’s Talk About Bernie Sanders and the Middle East
On foreign policy, the Vermont independent’s “political revolution” hasn’t done much to distinguish itself from Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
Nuclear Deterrence: Giving Common Sense a Bad Name
And clouding the minds of the public and policymakers for six decades.
Adding Up the Costs of Hillary Clinton’s Wars
Clinton’s foreign policy is more polite than the “make the sands glow” atavism of the GOP. But in the end, it’s death and destruction in a different packaging.
If Ramadi Is What ‘Victory’ Against ISIS Looks Like, We’re in Trouble
City by city, state by state, the Middle East is being laid to waste — and then we’re bombing the rubble.
Life in the Gray Zone
While ISIS makes war on the world’s vast majority of “moderate Muslims,” hardliners in the West pretend they don’t exist.