Americans will understand themselves less fantastically if they consider the extent to which the end of the Selective Service System a half century ago gave them permission to put their public selves to sleep.
Private contractors run the nuclear warhead complex and build nuclear delivery vehicles. To keep the gravy train running, those contractors spend millions lobbying decision-makers, writes William D. Hartung.
Environmental contamination, staggering cleanup costs and a culture of government secrecy: William J. Kinsella raises the toxic legacy of the Manhattan Project.
Across the U.S., anti-war veterans and their allies are working together in an effort to stop the U.S. military from reaching its recruitment goals, writes Ruben Abrahams Brosbe.
Pentagon officials acknowledge that it will be some time before robot generals are commanding vast numbers of U.S. troops and autonomous weapons in battle, writes Michael T. Klare. But they have several projects to test and perfect it.
The U.S. president isn’t trying to fool the Chinese government about the military buildup in the Pacific. His comments are aimed at the Western public and U.S. allies.
The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war.
When the author blew the whistle on the C.I.A.’s torture program in 2007, Daniel Ellsberg called to congratulate him and say he had friends at his side. Years later, at a red-carpet event in Hollywood, the “most dangerous man in…
If the war machine is alone responsible for placing checks on its nuclear brinkmanship, then there are no real checks on the nuclear brinkmanship of the war machine.
One of America’s most courageous men, who took on the most powerful government in the world to expose its lies about the Vietnam war, has died at 92.