by William Hartung | Aug 16, 2018 | Redev, War & Peace
American weapons makers have dominated the global arms trade for decades. In any given year, they’ve accounted for somewhere between one-third and more than one-half the value of all international weapons sales. It’s hard to imagine things getting much worse —...
by Peter Certo | Aug 15, 2018 | Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
On an otherwise sleepy August day, President Trump signed the John McCain National Defense Authorization Act. Named for the dying Arizona senator who’s championed military budgets for his entire career, the bill increases U.S. military spending to an astonishing $717...
by Tom Engelhardt | Jul 27, 2018 | Redev, War & Peace
There was a period in my later life when I used to say that, from the age of 20 to my late sixties, I was always 40 years old; I was, that is, an old young man and a young old one. Tell that to my legs now. Of course, there’s nothing faintly strange in such a...
by John Feffer | Jul 24, 2018 | Redev, War & Peace
As presidencies approach their midpoints, pundits begin the inevitable search for that elusive creature: the doctrine. It’s often a quixotic quest, since presidents rarely boil down their foreign-policy visions — if they even have them — to some pithy essence. Then...
by Khury Petersen-Smith | Jul 18, 2018 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
People across the United States and around the world have been rightly outraged by U.S. federal agencies’ detention of migrants and separation of their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Shortly after, the Supreme Court’s ruled to uphold the Trump...
