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Wars, Secrecy, and Lies

Hating America?

Top Stories of U.S. Foreign Policy in 2019

Shaking the Money Tree in the Wine Cave: The Democratic Debates, Part 6

An Open Letter to Tulsi Gabbard on Voting "Present"

Rewarding the Pentagon for Lying

Troop "Reduction" in Afghanistan!

Too Far Left?

Impeaching Trump the Cynical Way

America's Afghan War: Lies and More Lies

Why I Still Watch NFL Football

Random Thoughts on Death, Dying, and the Reality of America’s Wars

War Train, Soundin' Louder

The Smearing of Tulsi Gabbard

The Democratic Debate for 2020, Part 5

Ten Years Ago, Obama Went to West Point to Sell His Afghan Surge

No Money, No Speech, No Say

Thomas Paine on War and Empire

My Dad's Silver Dollars

Democracy and War

Don't Vote for the Person You Believe In!

Healthcare in America: No Pony for Us

Why America's Wars Never End

Edward Snowden and Turnkey Tyranny

The Militarization of Everything

Education in America: Of Hungry Wolves and Docile Sheep

The Democratic Debate That Wasn't

Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight

With Syria, the Senate Neocons Are at It Again

Trump and the Generals

Trump Treason?

The Dangerous Myth of Patriotism

Trump's Impeachment

Of Premature Withdrawals, Forever Wars, and the U.S. Military

Global Strikes, Global Warming, Global Change

Trillions for Warplanes: The Case of the F-35

Joe Biden: Clueless and Incoherent

James Mattis, the General Who Couldn't

America's Manufactured Culture War

Putting Labor back in Labor Day Weekend

On Still Not Getting the Vietnam War

The Death of Education in America

A Revealing Moment at the Democratic National Convention

The Persistence of War

America's Militarized Profession of Faith

Trump is a Trump Supremacist

Trump, Time Magazine's Narcissist of the Millennium

Mass Shootings and American Carnage

Torture USA

Donald Trump and America's Confused Values

Trump's True Treason

U.S. Folly in Afghanistan and Media Complicity

Yes, Trump is a Racist

Stop Exporting Violence, America

The Language of Politics: Aristotle, Ronald Reagan, and Bernie Sanders

American Militarism Is Riding High

Iran Wants War!

Made in China

A Surprise Winner in the Democratic Presidential Debates for 2020

Citizen-Soldiers and Defending the Constitution: The Ideal versus the Reality

Can we be a superpower morally and ethically?

Random Thoughts, Mostly Military

When Will We Ever Learn?

Plenty of Money for Warplanes

Monday Musings About America

Ten Cautionary Tenets About Air Power

Of Super-Patriots and War Fever

Trump's Priorities For Action

Memorial Day 1955 -- And Today

William Westmoreland and the Vietnam War

America’s Peculiar Military Dictatorship

Is Masculinity Under Attack in America?

The U.S. Army’s New, Retro, MAGA Uniform

Why Academic Tenure Is Vitally Important

The Pentagon's Long Con

The NFL Draft and America First

The Dream Democratic Ticket for 2020

Wikileaks and America's Boorish, In Your Face, Diplomacy

After the Mueller Report, Should Trump Be Impeached?

The Death of Education in America

"Great-Power Rivalry" Is Back

Are Drone Strikes Cowardly?

What Do Leading Democrats Believe In?

How Do You Justify A $750 Billion Budget?

Dreaming Big About the U.S. Military

No Collusion, Says the Mueller Report

America's Senior Generals Find No Exits From Endless War

Democratic Candidates for President in 2020

Big Walls, Fruitless Wars, and Fortress America

An Anti-War Democrat Can Win the Presidency in 2020

The Syrian Troop Withdrawal That Wasn't

Jared Kushner's Top Secret Clearance

Trump and North Korea

Of Historical Statues and Monuments

The U.S. Military is Everywhere

Blackface and White Nationalism

America's Mad Nuclear Weapons Surge

Monday Military Musings

American-Style Drone Warfare and How and When Humans Count

The Absurdity of America's Afghan War

The U.S. Military: Overfunded, Overhyped, and Always Over There

Domination and the U.S. Military

Trump Questions NATO: The Horror!

Trump, the Wall, and Ruling by Emergency Decree

The Bankruptcy of Conventional Wisdom at the Pentagon

A Few Observations on War, Sports, Fortresses, America, and Life