by Tom Engelhardt | Nov 8, 2017 | Democracy & Governance, Redev, War & Peace
Honestly, if there’s an afterlife, then the soul of Osama bin Laden, whose body was consigned to the waves by the U.S. Navy back in 2011, must be swimming happily with the dolphins and sharks. At the cost of the sort of spare change that Donald Trump recently offered...
by John Feffer | Oct 25, 2017 | Democracy & Governance, Redev
When the historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., published his bestseller The Disuniting of America in 1991, he didn’t seriously entertain the worst-case scenario suggested by the title. At the time, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were imploding, while separatist...
by Peter Certo | Oct 25, 2017 | Democracy & Governance, Redev, War & Peace
In our military-revering culture, it’s a strange thing for a president to start a war of words with the grieving families of slain soldiers. Strange, yes. But from Donald Trump’s campaign season feud with the parents of Humayun Khan, who died protecting fellow...
by Tom Engelhardt | Oct 23, 2017 | Redev, Uncategorized, War & Peace
It took 14 years, but now we have an answer. It was March 2003, the invasion of Iraq was underway, and Major General David Petraeus was in command of the 101st Airborne Division heading for the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Rick Atkinson, Washington Post journalist and...
by John Feffer | Oct 18, 2017 | Democracy & Governance, Environment, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
In the middle of September, Harvard University announced that it was inviting two controversial new fellows to the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School: former Trump administration spokesman Sean Spicer and whistleblower Chelsea Manning. At the august...
