How Contractors Got Billions for Bases
The Pentagon controls a huge collection of global military bases. The question is: Who is benefiting?
In Tehran, All Eyes on North Korea
Developments on the Korean peninsula will almost certainly influence calculations made in Washington and Tehran.
Video: Drums Beat for U.S. Military Intervention in Syria, but Israel Finds a Weakened Assad “Convenient”
The humanitarian disaster in Syria is mostly ignored as external powers vie for position to control the outcome of civil war.
Video: Stephen Hawking Confirms Support of Israel Boycott
Hawking’s boycott of Israel will shake Israeli public the way sports boycott affected South Africa.
Expand Nuclear Weapons Programs to Protect Missileers’ Tender Psyches
Nuclear missile officers jobs weigh heavy on them but not for the reasons you’d think.
Spirit of Boondoggle Departs Quashed Los Alamos Project, Finds New One to Possess
The construction of an expensive new plutonium pit facility has been abandoned. Will it be replaced a collection of smaller buildings?
Portugal Struggles to Meet Troika Conditions
In order to qualify for the next loan installment, Prime Minister Coelho must convince the European Union and the IMF that he can make draconian cuts.
Infantalizing North Korea
It’s time for us to grow up in our assessments of North Korea.
Syria: Great Game or Just a Tug of War?
Too many states, large and small, see themselves as having a vested interest in Syria’s outcome.
Mining for Profits in International Tribunals – Updated
How transnational corporations use trade and investment treaties as powerful tools in disputes over oil, mining, and gas. / Como las empresas mineras transnacionales utilizan las reglas de los acuerdos de inversión y de comercio como poderosos instrumentos a su favor en las disputas por el petróleo, la minería y el gas.
Imperial Gigantism and the Decline of Planet Earth
What if the unipolar moment turns out to be a planetary moment in which previously distinct imperial events fuse into a single disastrous system?
Make Migrants, Not War in North Korea
North Korea policymakers must look beyond the nuclear issue to consider the human rights of the population.
Would Pakistan Respond to India’s Use of Conventional Weapons With Tactical Nukes?
Theoretically Pakistan is poised to respond to Indian military retaliation for a terrorist strike with tactical nukes.
Our Stake in Guatemala’s Genocide Trial
Thirty years after Rios Montt’s atrocities, U.S. military policy in Latin America remains a human rights disaster.
How We Pay for CEO “Performance”
A gaping tax loophole pads executive pay and the federal debt.