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Medea Benjamin: Military-Industrial Complex Causes Perpetual War (Video)

Staff / Truthdig Dec 7, 2017 The Code Pink activist explores how the phenomenon named by President Eisenhower became one of the leading forces behind the now consistently bellicose state of the U.S. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Been There, Done That: The American Way of War as a Do-Over

By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch Mar 12, 2016 Yearly do-overs are a hell of a way to run a war, but they’re a great mechanism for ensuring that no one will need to take responsibility for a disaster of 14 years and counting. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Burying Vietnam, Launching Perpetual War

By Christian Appy, TomDispatch Feb 9, 2015 How do you commemorate the Vietnam War, the signature catastrophe of the 1960s? You probably know the answer: leave out every troubling memory and simply say: “Let’s honor all our military veterans for their service and sacrifice.” Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

The Fantasy of a Clean War

By Jeremy Scahill, TomDispatch Oct 31, 2013 The day Obama was sworn in for the second time, a U.S. drone strike hit Yemen. It was the third such attack in that country in as many days. Despite the rhetoric from the president on the Capitol steps, there was abundant evidence that he would continue to preside over a country that is in a state of perpetual war. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

Will the Pentagon Be the Next U.S. Institution to Crash?

William Pfaff / Truthdig Oct 3, 2008 Less apparent to most people than the economic crisis, but just as real, are the signs of an impending crash of an American military system in which, since the end of the Cold War, Pentagon dysfunction has metastasized so uncontrollably as to scandalize the men who have overseen it. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Digging In for the ‘Long War’

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Mar 16, 2006 "The Pentagon has decided to fight what it is now calling the 'Long War.' Has anyone asked you about this? Me neither." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )