The depth of the militarization of the United States and the harshness of its wars abroad have been concealed by converting death into something sacred, writes Kelly Denton-Borhaug in an address to U.S. veterans on Veterans Day.
There is a time-honored and destructive tradition in the U.S. of citizens approaching their political causes with blind faith.
Since Zawahiri did not pose “an immediate international threat,” Marjorie Cohn says he should have been arrested and brought to justice in accordance with the law.
Nick Turse reports on the proliferation of U.S. military targets since U.S. Congress gave successive presidents an essentially free hand to make war around the world.
Gareth Porter reports on the echoing by some corporate press of a counter-terrorism narrative that threatens a goal shared by Washington and Kabul: eradicating the IS-K organization.
Wars were planned, writes Caitlin Johnstone. And the public was psychologically brutalized into accepting them.
With communities across the country in dire need of investment, Lindsay Koshgarian says the case for avoiding more pointless wars couldn’t be clearer.
Airwars puts the death toll between 22,000 and 48,000, with that large gap reflecting the difficulty of tracking these fatalities.
The U.S. capacity for official lying has struck once again, as it has repeatedly for the last 60 years, writes Gordon Adams.
The survivors’ latest push for declassification follows a call by several Democratic senators for a review of the FBI documents just short of 20 years after the attacks.