US Wars and Military Action

Inside the Secretive US Air Campaign In Somalia

Inside the Secretive US Air Campaign In Somalia Inside the Secretive US Air Campaign In Somalia

Since Trump took office, figuring out whom the US is killing and why has become nearly impossible.

Feb 7, 2019 / Feature / Amanda Sperber

John Bolton Colombia

For Trump’s Regime Changers, Venezuela Is Just the First Step For Trump’s Regime Changers, Venezuela Is Just the First Step

The other big target on their hit list is Cuba.

Feb 7, 2019 / Peter Kornbluh

Who Is Matt Duss, and Can He Take On Washington’s ‘Blob’?

Who Is Matt Duss, and Can He Take On Washington’s ‘Blob’? Who Is Matt Duss, and Can He Take On Washington’s ‘Blob’?

Bernie Sanders’s foreign-policy adviser is part of a new generation of progressives fighting an entrenched status quo.

Feb 6, 2019 / Feature / David Klion

Trump discusses immigration proposals

‘Let Them Eat Trump’ ‘Let Them Eat Trump’

The media’s preoccupation with this administration’s scandals often distract us from more important matters—especially America’s never-ending wars.

Feb 5, 2019 / Andrew J. Bacevich

Anti-Nuclear War Demonstration

Trump Is Igniting a Perilous New Nuclear-Arms Race Trump Is Igniting a Perilous New Nuclear-Arms Race

Enforcement, not abandonment, is the answer to violations of the INF Treaty.

Feb 5, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin

Trump’s Withdrawals From Afghanistan and Syria Are Hardly ‘A Gift to Putin’ Trump’s Withdrawals From Afghanistan and Syria Are Hardly ‘A Gift to Putin’

Why would Moscow want to fight terrorists without the US? It doesn’t.

Jan 30, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen

Mining Lapis in Afghanistan

Peace in Afghanistan? Maybe—but a Minerals Rush Is Already Underway Peace in Afghanistan? Maybe—but a Minerals Rush Is Already Underway

And that rush is a direct result of Trump’s pressure on the Afghan government to open up the country to foreign corporations.

Jan 30, 2019 / Antony Loewenstein

Juan Guaidó

Venezuela: Call It What It Is—a Coup Venezuela: Call It What It Is—a Coup

The power grab of the right’s Juan Guaidó is brazenly unconstitutional.

Jan 25, 2019 / George Ciccariello-Maher

Trump at a military base in Iraq

The American Empire’s History of Amnesia The American Empire’s History of Amnesia

Trump’s recent comments on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan demonstrate the country’s reluctance to remember its foreign policy indiscretions.

Jan 24, 2019 / Tom Engelhardt

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Letters From the February 11-18, 2019, Issue Letters From the February 11-18, 2019, Issue

Military-industrial complexity… Worth 1,000 words… Parsing the new NAFTA… Greenspan’s historical amnesia…

Jan 24, 2019 / Our Readers

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