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The Year of Living Dangerously

Even AI Is Suspicious of the Military-Industrial Complex

He's a "wartime" president!

Dominating Everyone Everywhere All At Once

The Mainstream Media and the U.S. Military

Escalatory Pressures in the Russia-Ukraine War

Peace Is Not Our Profession

Negotiate to End the Russia-Ukraine War

The Disastrous War in Ukraine

Bloodless War in Ukraine

Beware of Long Wars

Where's the Antiwar Movement?

War Dividends

A Peculiar Form of American Madness

We All Represent "Diversity"

Warfare Is Welfare for the Merchants of Death

Taking On the Military-Industrial Complex

How to Get Elected in America

Why Did Eisenhower Fail in 1961?

Democrats Keep Control of the Senate

Thank You For Your Service

The Military-Industrial Complex Wins Again!

When Losing Is Winning

Which Corporate Party Will Win on Tuesday?

Political Illogic in America

In 2022, What Are the Democrats For?

Time to Study War Some More

Thinking About the Russia-Ukraine War

Peace Is Pro-Life and Pro-Choice

Dammit, Where's My Peace Dividend?

Who or What Comes After Putin?

Bracing Views on Substack

Spoiling for a New World War

Do You Know What Your Candidate Stands For?

Don't Play the Sap for Any Government

The Business of America Is War

The Russia-Ukraine War as a World War

The Threat of Nuclear Weapons to America

Free Julian Assange

Hypocrisy and "Tactical" Nukes

How to Fix the U.S. Military's Lying Problem

Something Is Rotten in the U.S. Military

Why Burn Books When You Can Stop Them from Being Published?

To Help the U.S. Military, Slash the Pentagon Budget

On Thinking Smartly About War

More "Great Power" Competition!

The U.S. Military as a Bull

Is Ukraine Winning?

U.S. Propaganda Gets Even Heavier

Twenty Years After 9/11

Joe Biden's Failure to Raise the Federal Minimum Wage

Transvestism as a Cultural Phenomenon and a Political Issue

Unhappy Labor Day

Joe Biden's Red-Tinged Speech

"The Terminal List" and America's Vision of the Heroic

Vote for What You Believe In, Not for Crumbs

Biden Tackles Student Debt -- and Misses

The Betrayal of Dwight D. Eisenhower by His Own Memorial in Washington DC

Seeing the Dark Side of the Moon -- and of America

Are Joe Biden and Donald Trump Too Old to Serve?

Liz Cheney Loses

Raid on Trump!

The Ukrainian Boondoggle as a Black Hole

Why Did Nancy Pelosi Go to Taiwan?

Bully Boys with Bull Bars

Let Reagan Be Reagan

Of Products and Assets and Families

The Nasty Voices in Our Heads

American Exceptionalism

Destroying the Village in Vietnam

Trump and the January 6th Hearings

The Giant War Robot that Rules America

The Power Game

Democrats, Republicans, and the Need for Alternatives

Packing Heat in America

The Death of Democracy in America

We Live in A Sick Society

Going "Hard" in America's Schools

1972 and 2022, or Long Live the Fighters

SCOTUS Overturns Roe v Wade

Death and Violence in America

A Modest Plea for a Sane Defense Budget

The Pentagon Cowbird

Naked Power and Julian Assange

Military Spending Robs Workers and the Poor

Please, Joe Biden, Don't Run in 2024

The War in Yemen

"Responsible" Gun Laws

How Are We to Understand the Russia-Ukraine War?

My Graduation Speech to the Air Force Academy

American "Aid" to Ukraine May Hurt More than Help

Civilians, the Forgotten Victims of War

Memorial Day 1955 -- And Today

Weapons as "Gamechangers"

We Talk Strangely About Guns

Lockdown America and School Shootings

"Biden's Tough Words"

The Murderous Madness of Trillions for Nuclear Weapons

The Death of the Democratic Party

Priming the Pump for More War

Wednesday Worries

Tuesday Thoughts

Don't Think About the Unthinkable

Militarism Run Mad

Listening to Noam Chomsky and Julian Assange

Dominating the World Stage

Abortion and Men

Border Insecurity and Worthy Refugees

Pimps of War

Abortion in America

On Censorship and Disinformation

Joe Biden's Early Report Card

Prediction for 2014: War Will Continue to Find A Way

Edward Snowden and Turnkey Tyranny

The Language of War

Thursday Thoughts

War and Weapons Are Strictly Business

The American Empire Has No Moral Authority

Can't I Just Watch Baseball?

Can't Men Give It A Break?

Higher Military Spending Leads to Less Security

Reforming America's Elections the NOTC Way

Deplorable Leaders

Obama Humiliates Biden

War Itself Is the Crime

What Would It Take for the Pentagon Budget to Shrink?

The United States Is 100% in the Right

The Military-Industrial Complex Is Not a Way of Life at All

Hollywood, the Oscars, and America

Joe Biden's Careless Rhetoric

Tackling the Military-Industrial Complex

Pity Ukraine, and Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and any other War Zone

Critical Media Literacy

A Just Cause? Why Lie?

The New Cold War

Orwell Is Alive and Well in the U.S. and Russia

As Russia Weakens, Why Is Pentagon Spending Set to Soar?

Are Women the Secret Weapon in a Mass Antiwar Movement?

Dissent Is Needed More than Ever

Orwell's "1984" Holds Many Lessons for the New Cold War

In Search of Christianity Lost

The Keyboard Commandos

Testament of Youth

Condemning War

Let's (Not) Go To War!

The U.S. Mainstream Media and War

America's Twin Pandemics of Covid and Agency Panic

America's Disastrous 60-Year War

Many Decades of the Condor

A Few Thoughts About NATO and Russia

When In Doubt, Send Troops

Fixing NFL Overtime

Why It's So Hard to Give Peace A Chance in America

Russia, Ukraine, and the USA

Shouldn't Anyone Who's Sane Be a Peace Activist?

Stop the MADness

Air Force Core Values

America Needs A Can't Do Military

All the Insecurity Money Can Buy

Friday Morning Thoughts

Joe Says No

How to Prevent a Coup in Washington