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More Arms to Israel

"Slavery" Seems to be the Hardest Word

Health Care as Wealth Care in America

The End of War?

Establishment Democrats Boost Donald Trump

Thoughts on War in Gaza and Ukraine

How to Beat Trump

'Tis the Season for War

Solving Homelessness in America

Saturday Snippets

The Massacre of Gaza

Israel as a Conquering State

Lessons from Diana Rigg

War, what is it good for?

U.S. Power Sets All the Wrong Examples to the World

Democratic Party Paradox

The Obliteration of Gaza

Biden to Israel: Don't Ethnically Cleanse Too Fast

Is the Russia-Ukraine War Sputtering to an End?

The U.S. Military's Alleged Recruiting Crisis Isn't the Problem

Operation Ongoing Bullshit

The Benefits of Hunting

On Black Friday, the Hologram Is Revealed

A Quick Message of Thanks

A Phantasm of Camouflaged Violence

15,000 Bombs Equivalent to Two Hiroshimas

Liberty at the Point of a Sword

Preacher Mike Johnson

Shameless Secrecy by the Biden Administration

Why I'm A Lapsed Catholic

Biden 2.0?

When Collateral Damage Is the Strategy

Israel is "Daddy" to the U.S. Congress

America, Land of Innocents

The New Merchants of Death

When Is a Stalemate Not a Stalemate?

Violence Never Settles Anything

Nothing Screams Christian Values Like Massacres and Mass Weapons Sales

More Lethal "Aid" for Israel

"When the Devil Is Loose in the Village"

What Gaza Needs Now Is Mercy

Israel, America, and Going "Massive"

America's New Godly House Speaker

Israel, Gaza, and the Language of War

Biden's BS Bundling

Biden's Trigger Treats for Ukraine and Israel

Can We Agree on a Few Basics?

Nothing Screams Peace Like the Deployment of Warships

Peace Dividends? Not in Our Lifetimes

What, Exactly, Is "Repugnant" About Efforts to Stop Mass Killing?

6000 Bombs in Six Days

War Destroys History

What War Does to Us

Democrats Are Undemocratic

The War Party Rules Washington

I Won't Play the Sap for You

War as an "Investment"

Governor Newsom Selects Political Operative Laphonza Butler to Replace Sen. Feinstein

Canada Applauds a Waffen-SS Soldier

The Rambo Mystique

Imagining a Progressive Pentagon

Martial Virtue: Promise and Peril

Everything that's wrong with America in one sentence

For the Children!

RFK Faces the Nation and Questions Its Conscience

Impeach Joe Biden?

The Dogs of War Are Winning

Talking and Writing Honestly About War

The Bitter Alchemy of War

Putting Labor Back in Labor Day Weekend

Kleptocracy USA

Vote for Biden Because Trump

What Ever Happened to Gary Cooper?

Fighting and Writing Against America's Forever Wars

Integrity Last

Come On, Ukraine, Learn from the U.S. Military

Atavistic War

Seven Reasons Why We Can't Stop Making War (2010)

Biden/Harris Campaign Slogan: No, We Can't

The Rich Have No Sympathy or Use for the Poor

Dystopia USA

The False Comfort of Illusions

"The Greatest Fighting Force in Human History"

Silencing Voices for Peace

Trump and Death by 1000 Indictments

The Temptations of Drone Warfare

Putting Warheads on Foreheads

A Famine of Peace

Gerontocracy and the Decline of the U.S. Empire

The "Rationale" of America's Wars

The Russia-Ukraine War and the Management of Expectations

Norman Mailer for Secretary of Defense

The Circus Tiger Bit Back

Praise the Lord and Pass the Cluster Munitions

Higher Military Spending Will Save Democracy

In Praise of Jimmy Carter

Top Dove: Peacenik

Masters of the Universe

Cluster Munitions for Ukraine

Americans Place Too Much Faith in War

The Global War on Terrorism

Embrace the "Nuance" of Nuclear Weapons

Biden, Trump, and White Male Privilege

If Biden Loses, I'm to Blame

Turmoil in Russia!

Does Russia Have Legitimate Security Concerns?

The Ukraine Counteroffensive and the Costs of War

God Save the Queen, Man

The "Campaign Cash Dash" of Biden/Harris

Hype and Hope in Ukraine's Counteroffensive

Education Is About Social Control

U.S. Foreign Policy in One Image

Policy Over Politics and Party

Clinging Bitterly to Guns and Religion

Is Real Change Possible in America?

Biden Trips and Falls

Getting Giddy About War

Will Artificial Intelligence Be Too Human?

Memorial Day Weekend

Quick Words on Ron DeSantis

Mobsters of the Mind

The Maniacal Purposes of Loyalty Oaths

You can make a lot of money off sick people

Trump Wants to Stop the Killing in Ukraine

Fighting the Military-Industrial Complex

America's Mercenary Wars

Are the Best Years of My Country Behind Me?

Rot at the Supreme Court

America's Faith in War

A Depressing Presidential Political Scene

Joe Biden Is Running Again

Stand Your Ground Shouldn't Mean Blast Away

Shootings Are Us

Strange Factoid on the F-35 Jet Fighter

Learning Nothing from the Iraq War

The U.S. Military's Recruitment Problem, Solved!

Pentagon Leaks! Mass Shootings!

Philip K. Dick on the Need to Confront Reality

The Trump Indictment

A Baseball Game or a Military Parade?

A Nuclear War Dilemma

Questions to Ask in the Russia-Ukraine War

The Second Cold War

Meet the New Holocaust Missile and Armageddon Submarine

Dwight Eisenhower on the Cost of Permanent War

Strange Doings in the Democratic Party

Learning Little from the Iraq War

Of Bank Failures, Train Wrecks, and Broken Promises

With the Twitter Files, Democrats Support Government Censorship of Lawful Speech

Peaceful Sightseers at the Capitol!

Junior ROTC Shouldn't Exist

Daniel Ellsberg and the Madness of Nuclear Weapons

The Military-Industrial Complex and American Fascism

East Palestine, Ohio and the Oblivious Democrats

Magical Weapons for Ukraine

America's Foreign Policy and Cody Jarrett

Are Biden and Trump Too Old to Run Again?

Enough Is Enough

The Militarized Super Bowl

Why I'm Pro-Russia

Another "Kill" for America!

The State of the Union

Winning the Great Balloon War

MIC on the Brain

Thinking About Nuclear War

George Santos, the U.S. Military, and Lying

Can the Military-Industrial Complex Be Tamed?

Honk if you like guns

Who Determines U.S. Foreign Policy?

Let the Weapons Flow and the Body Count Grow

Another Mass Shooting in America

German Panzers in Ukraine

What's the best way to end a war?

The Pentagon's National Defense Strategy Drives Record Military Spending

Military Haves and Have-Nots

A Note on Bracing Views and Payments

Don't Get Too Big For Your Britches

The Madness of U.S. Militarism

Talking About War, War Culture, Police, and the U.S. Military

The Fight Over the Speaker of the House

History Is Un-American