Drone Race to a Known Future
Tom Engelhardt : Afghanistan War
Armed drone aircraft in Afghanistan and Pakistan are only the latest wonder weapon to promise us the world.
Tom Engelhardt : Afghanistan War
Armed drone aircraft in Afghanistan and Pakistan are only the latest wonder weapon to promise us the world.
Michael T. Klare : US Military
The ghosts of Vietnam are everywhere, as counterinsurgency makes a comeback in the Pentagon budget.
Frida Berrigan : U.S. Economy
World War II defense spending helped pull us out of a depression, but don't count on that happening this time.
Terry Jones : Humor
It's not that I'm keen on killing people. It's just that the money's so good.
Chalmers Johnson : U.S. Economy
If we don't reduce military spending now, the bankruptcy of the United States is inevitable. We don't have much time left.
An Air Force contract to build an obsolete B-2 refueling tanker has suddenly become a campaign issue--and the Democrats are on the wrong side.
Jonathan Schell : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
During the cold war, the driving force was the bilateral arms race; now it's proliferation.
Jonathan Schell : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
Richard Rhodes's Arsenals of Folly, sequel to the book that defined the atomic age, captures the political struggle that brought it to an end.
The failure of Bush's foreign policy should open the way for Democrats to present substantial alternatives and rethink what makes us safe. Sadly, that is not happening.
Two US officers are caught delivering weapons to a Colombian paramilitary group.
Robert Scheer : Government Programs
Has the United States become like ancient Rome, in love with costly conquest?
Robert Scheer : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
Trying to follow the US policy on the proliferation of nuclear weapons is like watching a three-card monte game.
William D. Hartung & Michelle Ciarrocca : US Foreign Policy
The US may have won the war, but US companies are in danger of losing the peace.
Jonathan Schell : US Foreign Policy
The revival of nuclear danger means we have already lost.
