Lloyd Austin’s Theatrical Visit to the Middle East

Joe Biden’s retreat from Afghanistan IN 2021 did not remove US interests and military presence from a region of the world no longer invested by Washington with the same sense of urgency that it had had two decades earlier under George Bush. Nor did it cancel a focus on war.

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The Colossal Corruption of the Two-Party System

The US has declared itself to be the global leader in democracy through its mass media, powerful economy and extensive military. However, the US needs many reforms before it can claim to be truly democratic. Disposing of the two-party system would be a good place to start.

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The US Military is Winning. No, Really, It Is!

The Pentagon has spun decades-long stalemates into Beltway gold, while leveraging its inability to beat the Taliban, al-Shabaab, or even al-Qaeda into a justification to rearm for great-power competition. Its battlefield defeats have proven to be signature wins for the Pentagon’s civilian high command, the generals, their industry partners, and their many camp followers.

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Ukraine: How Lies Fuel a New Bloody War of Attrition

The authors argue that none of the stakeholders in this war — the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the USA and its NATO allies — has leveled with its own people to honestly explain what it is fighting for, what it really hopes to achieve and how it plans to achieve it. All sides claim to be fighting for noble causes. But in this war of shameless spin, real people are being...

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