
Let's Make Ending Militarism Our New Year's Resolution
Only by restructuring the entire legal framework for American war-making can we begin to imagine a more humane foreign policy.
Only by restructuring the entire legal framework for American war-making can we begin to imagine a more humane foreign policy.
We revere our troops as warriors. But it's dangerous to believe their mere presence in the Greater Middle East can achieve the miraculous.
Actions in the United States that are illegal versus legal are inverted from what they should be in an evolved culture.
With dubious legal sanction in domestic or international law, the U.S. military is engaged in active combat in at least seven countries.
The apathy and ignorance of Americans enable a militarized nation to wage forever wars.
Elite troops were deployed to 149 nations in 2017, according to U.S. Special Operations Command.
The media, military, policymakers, political leaders and even the public propagate dangerous myths and platitudes that enable perpetual war.
The U.S. military's probe of the deadly ambush in Niger will avoid answering the most critical questions—including why our soldiers are deployed there.
Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson say the Trump administration has all the legal authority it needs to begin hostilities.
The secretary of energy says electrification using hydrocarbons would prevent sexual assaults in rural Africa. But such fuels can just as well be blamed for mass rapes during wartime.
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