Four months ago the satirical news site The Onion posted the headline, "John Bolton: ‘An Attack On Two Saudi Oil Tankers Is An Attack On All Americans’".I remember the post because it cracked me up a the time. Like many Onion headlines, the joke came from
Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw has a popular post going around on Twitter at the moment admonishing Senator Bernie Sanders for saying that the US government should not go to war if it can’t afford to take care of its veterans.“Watching Bernie pander to different groups
I'm expected to write something about the Trump administration's warmongering against Iran over an attack on a Saudi oil refinery, because that's typically what I do in this ongoing improvisational exercise of mine: I write about the behavior of the US war machine and the
American liberals and progressives talk a bit about white privilege, male privilege, straight privilege etc, but one thing I never hear them talk about is American privilege: the ability their nationality gives them to have a relationship with this world that the rest of us
We each have a miniature John Bolton living rent-free inside our heads, ruining our peace and promoting world domination at every opportunity.Hear me out.The most common objection I hear when I advocate non-interventionist foreign policy can essentially be boiled down to something like, "But- but-
Whenever I criticize the foreign policy of the current US administration, I always get some pushback from Trump supporters who insist that this president is doing more good than harm by "fighting the Deep State" and, even more commonly, by "keeping us out of wars".This
American Values, an excellent Twitter account which publishes daily information about US atrocities, has just posted a thread for the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and I think everyone should have a look at it today. It reads as follows: "On this day
One of the most common labels people use to describe what I do is some variation of "anti-war journalist" or "anti-imperialist blogger", and I'm always a tiny bit surprised when I see it. Not because I disagree with it; opposition to US-centralized warmongering probably constitutes
In an excellent new essay titled "We’re Not the Good Guys -- Why Is American Aggression Missing in Action?", Tom Engelhardt criticizes the way western media outlets consistently describe the behavior of disobedient nations like Iran as "aggressions", but never use that label for the
If you were to have asked me what news reports I definitely did not expect to see when checking my news feed this morning, "Malignant plutocrats join hands across partisan divide to end America's forever war" would probably have been among my first guesses. And