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All Posts For - military

Trump Is Setting Himself up for a Coup by Packing Cabinet With Ex-Generals, Military Expert Warns

December 9, 2016 Current News Corruption Comments are off for this post

Civilian control of the military is necessary to preserve American democratic institutions.

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Through the Gates of Hell: From the Invasion of Iraq to Donald Trump

November 14, 2016 Current News class war Comments are off for this post

The one thing you could say about empires is that, at or near their height, they have always represented a principle of order as well as domination. So here’s the confounding thing about the American version of empire in the years when this country was often referred to as “the...

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Preparing for the Next Memorial Day

June 1, 2016 Current News activism Comments are off for this post

A practical reason for focusing on nonviolent approaches is that violence rarely works.

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How to Disappear Money, Pentagon-Style

May 25, 2016 Current News Defense Spending Comments are off for this post

The Pentagon’s budget is as close to a work of art as you’re likely to find in the U.S. government -- if, that is, by work of art you mean scam.

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War, What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing.

February 26, 2016 Current News Foreign Affairs Comments are off for this post

It may be hard to believe now, but in 1970 the protest song “War,” sung by Edwin Starr, hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. ... But here’s the strange thing: in a way its authors and singer could hardly have imagined, in a way we still can’t...

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Life as a Drone Operator

November 19, 2015 Current News drones Comments are off for this post

'Ever Step on Ants and Never Give It Another Thought?'

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Obama Does Have a Strategy in Iraq: Escalation

June 11, 2015 Current News Foreign Affairs Comments are off for this post

Even as Obama admits there's no military solution in Iraq, the Pentagon is pouring more U.S. troops and weapons into its floundering war on the Islamic State.

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The Years Since I Was Jailed for Releasing the ‘War Diaries’ Have Been a Rollercoaster

May 28, 2015 Current News Chelsea Manning Comments are off for this post

In 2010, I was considerably less mature than I am now, and the potential consequences and outcomes of my actions seemed vague and very surreal to me. I certainly expected the worst possible outcome, but I lacked a strong sense of what “the worst” would entail. I did expect to...

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Killing Ragheads for Jesus: On Watching ‘American Sniper’

January 26, 2015 Current News Domestic Issues Comments are off for this post

“American Sniper” lionizes the most despicable aspects of U.S. society—the gun culture, the blind adoration of the military, the belief that we have an innate right as a “Christian” nation to exterminate the “lesser breeds” of the earth, a grotesque hypermasculinity that banishes compassion and pity, a denial of inconvenient...

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Federal Prison Sentence Begins for Anti-Drone Activist

January 22, 2015 Current News Domestic Issues Comments are off for this post

I think it’s important to take these issues directly to the place where the grievance is occurring, and that’s certainly these military bases.

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