How did we get here? The right wing has identified Critical Race Theory as this week’s Threat Against America and has accused the U.S. military of “wokeness” because it has used this framework to assess the influence of white supremacists[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The U.S. military presence in Niger made headlines again, only briefly, when more remains of U.S. Army Sergeant La David Johnson were found and shipped home last week. Johnson and three other soldiers were killed in an ambush last month,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the praise he received for bombing Syria (a decision made over a “delicious” chocolate cake ), the American president sorta-kinda oversaw the dropping of a MOAB on Afghanistan and enjoined North Korea in a game of One Upping the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This process seems to have accelerated among people who use Twitter and other social media as a means of reacting to current events. It only got worse once The President, John McCain and the usual party liners began asserting American[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So The Guardian reports that Libyan villagers attempting to help downed U.S. airmen were rewarded for their efforts by U.S. forces firing on them: Libyans who went to investigate the US warplane’s crash site said that a US helicopter had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The France-led (sic) international coalition military intervention “Odyssey Dawn” operation against Gadaffi forces in Libya is necessarily controversial. Liberal Democrats are upset that Obama has side-stepped his constitutional responsibility to consult Congress in matters of war waging (Kucinich is already[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As ever, the promised reduction in nuclear stockpiles is a good thing: The treaty would require each side to reduce deployed strategic nuclear warheads to roughly 1,600, down from 2,200 now, officials have said. It would also oblige each side[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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