By Branko Marcetic on Oct 14, 2025 12:05 am There is good news and bad news for critics of the United States’ bloated 21st century war machine. The good news: the “war on terror” is dead. Read in browser »
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos on Oct 13, 2025 06:36 am Calling Donald Trump the "best friend Israel ever had in the White House" the Israel parliament welcomed the American president hours after the remaining 20 living hostages were released to Israel as part of last week's brokered ceasefire deal. As Trump prepared to speak before the Knesset, 2,000 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel were being readied for their own release. Read in browser »
By Jack Hunter on Oct 13, 2025 12:05 am When it was reported this week that former President Joe Biden’s FBI may have targeted the cellphones of eight Republican senators in the "Arctic Frost” investigation related to the January 6, 2021 Capitol Hill riot, the Republicans that were supposedly surveilled were not happy about it. Read in browser »
By Lee Schlenker on Oct 13, 2025 12:05 am It appears that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is emerging victorious in the internal Trump administration battle over the direction of U.S. policy toward Venezuela. Read in browser »
By Gabe Murphy on Oct 10, 2025 12:05 am Last week, analysts from three think tanks penned a joint op-ed for Breaking Defense to make the case for mobilizing the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program, a pivot from one exceedingly costly approach to nuclear modernization to another. Read in browser »
By Ted Galen Carpenter on Oct 10, 2025 12:05 am Donald Trump has long been a fan of using the U.S. military to wage a more vigorous war against drug cartels in Latin America. He also shows signs of using that justification as a pretext to oust regimes considered hostile to other U.S. interests. Read in browser »