The Militarization of American Democracy
Neta C. Crawford
February 4, 2021
We don’t just have a right-wing violence problem. We have a democracy problem fueled by a war problem.
Topic
War and Peace
Nuclear Weapons Profiteers are Driving the Nukes Debate
Ben Freeman, Ose Okooboh
November 17, 2020
With a price-tag of more than $1.2 trillion dollars, there’s intense debate about plans to overhaul U.S. nuclear forces. What many don’t realize is that there’s considerable money within this debate, and it’s coming from the very companies that will make billions if the United States upgrades its nuclear forces.
The Things We Know, But Do Not Say, About the Costs of American War
Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.)
November 17, 2020
“Well, we like war. We’re a war-like people,” the comedian George Carlin, whom I’ve been missing of late, pronounced way back in 1992, on the heels of America’s triumphalist First Persian Gulf War “victory.”
Why a Peace Agreement Remains Critical to Resolving the Security Crisis in Korea
Henri Feron
November 17, 2020
As President Obama left office in 2016, he warned the incoming President Trump that North Korea would be “the most urgent problem” that he would face. That problem remains today, and in many ways has worsened.