Medea Benjamin responds to leaders of the Atlantic alliance setting a military-spending target for themselves so staggering it exceeds that of the U.S.
NATO’s Obscene 5 Percent Pledge
Tag: U.S. President Donald Trump
The US-Israeli Compulsion for War
Democracy has nothing to do with the chokehold that the warfare state has on the American body politic, writes Norman Solomon.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: How Iran Allowed Israel to Attack
When the history of this period is written, Tehran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with the U.S. administration of a lame-duck president will be depicted as a trap.
Caitlin Johnstone: Rebooting Iraq-War Lies for Iran
We’ve seen this before: The lies circulating about Iran are just a much dumber, much more obvious version of those that U.S. officials used to push for the invasion of Iraq.
Trump, War & the Constitution
The U.S. Constitution is in the hands of those who ignore it, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. The consequences are deaths of innocents and the undermining of constitutional norms.
Trump: US Forces ‘Could Get Involved’ With Israel Against Iran
The U.S. president’s remarks Sunday alarmed lawmakers who have warned that further involvement would be illegal as well as disastrous, Jake Johnson reports.
Israeli Attacks Kill Key Iranian US-Nuclear Negotiator
After Israel’s strikes, which killed Ali Shamkhani, a top aide to Supreme Leader Khamenei, Iran suspended already-tenuous negotiations in Oman.
As Trump Sets Military Against Civilians, Soldiers Have Duty to Disobey
The Marines are trained in combat, not crowd control, writes Marjorie Cohn. People are likely to get hurt.
Trump’s Authoritarian Leap
If the feds can characterize an unarmed assemblage of protesters as an invasion, Andrew P. Napolitano asks whose freedoms are safe.
Chris Hedges: The Rule of Idiots
Thomas Paine writes that a despotic government is a fungus that grows out of a corrupt civil society. This is what happened to past societies. It is what happened to us.