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War and Peace

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Air Force photo/Sgt. J.T. Armstrong)

Nuclear Weapons Profiteers are Driving the Nukes Debate

Ose Okooboh, Ben Freeman 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.

American Soldier in Iraq staring into distance (Photo courtesy of Rob Chavez on Pixabay)

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.”

State parade in North Korea. (Image courtesy of Pixabay).

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.