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Showing posts with label War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War. Show all posts
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Analysis: The Riddle of Why Russians Don't Protest Against the War in Ukraine

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by Nomad Although now a British citizen, Oxford-educated political philosopher Vlad Vexler was born in the Soviet Union. For this reason...
Saturday, March 5, 2022

Putin's Disastrous Misadventure in Ukraine

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by Nomad
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Why the Trump Administration Threatened to Veto a UN Resolution on Wartime Rape

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by Nomad E ver since the human species climbed out of the jungle trees and began throwing rocks at one another, one of the recogniz...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Gates of War: Donald Trump and the Temple of Janus

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by Nomad Keeping the decision to go to war out of the hands of a single person has long been considered a prudent policy, dating back ...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Congress Demands Legal Justification for Trump's Syrian Missile Attack

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by Nomad Dear Mr. President Y ou might not have seen the joint press release from Congressman Adam Schiff and Senator Tim Kaine ...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Spiraling Out of Control: The Dangerous Fallacies of General Mattis

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by Nomad Contrary to what the Defense Secretary apparently believes, there's a lethal risk in basing American foreign policy o...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

Could We Soon Be Witnessing the Fall of ISIL?

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by Nomad L ast Friday, while most of the US media was myopically focused on the collapse of Donald "Genitalia-Grabbing" Tr...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Syria and ISIS: A Five Minute History of How We Got to This Point

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by Nomad Information is our best defense. Here's a fairly good video that answers the question: How on earth did the world let ISIS h...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

Meaningless Mea Culpa: All about Tony Blair's Dishonest Apology for the Iraq War

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by Nomad F ormer British Prime Minister Tony Blair finally made an apology. To many, it was a startling admission. In fact, it was typ...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Rebellion, Retrospect,and Regret: The 50th Anniversary of a Vietnam Peace March

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by Nomad Fifty years ago on this date, April 17, 1965, Washington saw one of the first and largest peace marches in its history. It was...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Molly Ivins: War-Mongering is Not an American Tradition

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 by Nomad
Saturday, August 23, 2014

Desolation Row: Scenes from the Syrian Civil War

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by Nomad Scenes of destruction in Syria demonstrates what national suicide looks like. H ere are some images of the devastation in th...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Fastening The Shackles: How the Militarization of the Police was Prophesied a Century Ago

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by Nomad Progressive reformers and anti-imperialists from a century ago warned us about what happens when a nation uses its military to...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Apocalypse Avoided: Did Nazi Germany Plan to Nuke New York City?

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by Nomad Two years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, a claim  by a top level US missile defense chief reveals how close we came to ...
Friday, April 4, 2014

Police Brutality: Is This The Price of Empire?

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by Nomad Recent cases of police overreaction have led to public outrage. But the question is: Is this the inevitable consequence of i...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

The Shocking Truth about Freedom Fries, the French Boycott and Fox News

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by Nomad An exclusive look back at the Conservative revenge against the French for not joining its coalition of the willing: the crusade...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Obama’s Impeachment: Mr. Jones and the War Powers Act 2/2

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Obama’s Impeachment: Mr. Jones and the War Powers Act 2/2 by Nomad In the previous post in this series , we examined in detail the res...