Trump: Doubling Down on Dystopia
Today’s dystopia is not your grandfather’s 1984.
The Most Important Election of Your Life isn’t This Year
Donald Trump’s campaign has highlighted a division between “America A” and “America B,” but a much more ominous political force could emerge in 2020.
The European Union May Be on the Verge of Collapse
The complex federal project of the EU has proven fragile in the absence of a strong external threat.
Beating Swords Into Solar Panels: Re-Purposing America’s War Machine
Why should we maintain our grossly expensive military-industrial complex when tax dollars are so desperately needed at home?
How Dystopian Secrecy Contributes to Clueless Wars
Bradley Manning Has Done More for U.S. Security than SEAL Team 6
Too Soon to Tell
Hope and history are sisters: one looks forward and one looks back, and they make the world spacious enough to move through freely.
How Contractors Got Billions for Bases
The Pentagon controls a huge collection of global military bases. The question is: Who is benefiting?
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?
The Great Afghan Corruption Scam
The U.S. flooded Afghanistan with military and aid funds, while expediently skipping any process of oversight, and so turned Operation Enduring Freedom into Operation Enduring Corruption.
Climate Change as History’s Deal-Breaker
Climate change, global warming, extreme weather — call it what you will — is the obvious deal-breaker in human, if not planetary, history.
The Latin American Exception
In one region of the world – in this century at least – the sun never rose on US-choreographed torture.
Dumb and Dumber: A Secret CIA Drone Base, a Blowback World, and Why Washington Has No Learning Curve
The Washington Post, along with other news outlets, had by “an informal arrangement” agreed two years ago to suppress news of a secret Saudi drone base – at the request of the Obama administration.
Living in a Constitution-Free Zone
The advance of the homeland security state along the U.S.-Canada border, funded and supported by Congress, seems both uncontroversial – and unstoppable.
The Hagel Hearings: The Last Best Chance for the Truth About a Lost War and America’s War-Making Future
Chuck Hagel may well be, as Mr. Obama contends, “the leader that our troops deserve.” But don’t the American people deserve a little honesty from that leader about the war that shaped him?
The Pentagon as a Global NRA
No one seems to see the slightest contradiction in an administration that calls for legal limits on advanced weaponry in the U.S., yet is working assiduously to remove barriers to the sale of advanced weaponry overseas.