Senators Paul and Merkley to Trump: Are we 'stumbling' into another war?

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

The war over war with Iran has just begun

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

Massie interview: Houthi strikes 'not America First'

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

Even if the war ended tomorrow, Ukraine could end up broke by 2026

by [deleted] to /s/For_Slavs from responsiblestatecraft.org

The Israeli-American Trump mega-donor behind speech crackdowns

by Drewski to /s/politics from responsiblestatecraft.org

Another weapons industry exec brought into Trump's Pentagon

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

Why are we still at war in Syria?

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

Trump and the viable road to peace in Ukraine

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

If true, Trump move to withdraw US military from Syria is the right one

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

The Gaza ceasefire likely won't last

by Drewski to /s/PalestineIsrael from responsiblestatecraft.org

Tulsi Gabbard vs. the War Party

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

Will Trump keep promise to rein in War, Inc.?

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

Top defense stock traders in Congress in 2024

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

F-35: $2T in 'generational wealth' the military had no right to spend | The Joint Strike Fighter had a $200B price tag in 2001, now babies born that year are out of college and the plane is still not ready for prime time

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

US fielding new charges of hypocrisy over Kenya | Is the Biden administration downplaying crackdowns because it needs President Ruto's police in Haiti?

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Prolonging the Ukraine war is flirting with nuclear disaster

by penelopepnortney to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Suddenly, the 'nuclear age' is today

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

Russian warships are in Cuba, try not to overreact

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

Droning Russia’s nuke radars is the dumbest thing Ukraine can do

by penelopepnortney to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

BRICS and de-dollarization, how far can it go?

by Drewski to /s/WorldPolitics from responsiblestatecraft.org

The elusive Chinese boogeyman in Latin America | But it's Washington's big foot that prevails here, whether US policymakers want to acknowledge it or not.

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

In Red Sea, US Navy paying the price of shipbuilding failures | The Littoral Combat Ship was designed with the current crisis in mind, instead it turned into a boondoggle. Here's why.

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Russia, China dump the dollar as Moscow announces new trade corridors

by Drewski to /s/WorldPolitics from responsiblestatecraft.org

Will Democrats hold Biden accountable for arming Israel? | Despite allegations of international law violations, administration keeps sending weapons to Tel Aviv

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Senators want to dust off 'Truman Committee' to out war profiteers

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Neocon Iraq war architects want a redo in Gaza

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

Munich dispatch: Gaza "wind blowing against the West" | EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warns the world smells hypocrisy as Israel readies death blow in Rafah

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Terrorism in Africa increased 100,000% during 'war on terror'

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Unreal: White House still denies Mideast turmoil linked to Gaza | Acknowledging the connection would make it harder to justify unconditional backing for Israel’s war.

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

No magic US weapon left for offensive Ukraine victory

by chakokat to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

No magic US weapon left for offensive Ukraine victory

by Drewski to /s/WorldNews from responsiblestatecraft.org

US troops should have left Syria and Iraq long ago

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

Don't like radical Houthis? Blame Bush's wars

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Ukraine aid benefits arms industry, not US economy ¦ President Biden is selling assistance to Kyiv as an American jobs program but it's really just another inequitable wealth redistribution

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Is US helping to create new global jihadists? | After spending over 20 years fighting al-Qaida and ISIS, a new cadre of terrorists may be on the horizon

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Why Trump is right about North Korea

by Drewski to /s/politics from responsiblestatecraft.org

Evidence of ethnic cleansing growing in West Bank and Gaza

by Drewski to /s/WorldNews from responsiblestatecraft.org

Do venture capitalists want forever war? | These shrewd billionaire investors are jumpstarting today’s rising stars in defense. In a risky business, peace is against their bottom line

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Rand Paul to force vote on Syria troop withdrawal

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

The warfare of starvation ¦ The siege will kill Palestinian civilians and by doing nothing, the US is supporting it.

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

On foreign policy, Argentina’s Milei leans neocon, not libertarian

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Germany gets a new antiwar party, this time on the left

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

US nuke panel packed with weapons industry interests ¦ Nine of 12 members of the commission proposing a bigger, better arsenal have financial ties to defense contractors.

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Is this the beginning of the end of the war in Ukraine?

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

US is barreling toward another war in the Middle East

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

What Paul Krugman gets wrong about the military industrial complex ¦ The NYT columnist uses irrelevant metrics to argue for giving more money to the Pentagon.

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Wall Street eyes big profits from Israel-Hamas war. Aside from the callousness of casually discussing the financial benefits of far-off armed conflict, the comments raise questions about whether these major institutional shareholders of weapons stocks are abiding by their own human rights policies

by Budget-song-budget to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Senate shoots down effort to withdraw US troops from Niger

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Abraham Accords Set the Stage for Israel-Gaza Conflict

by Drewski to /s/WorldPolitics from responsiblestatecraft.org

Danger for US deepens as Gaza crisis escalates

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

Why does Egypt fear evacuating Gaza?

by Drewski to /s/WorldPolitics from responsiblestatecraft.org

One year later, why is the Nord Stream attack still a mystery?

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

When 80 percent of US generals go to work for arms makers ¦ The revolving door between the Defense Department and the weapons industry spins — a new report offers ways to slow it down.

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Actually, China's military isn't going global

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Buying and selling arms stock while voting on war should be illegal | Yet lawmakers sitting on the powerful committees determining military policy and budgets do it all the time.

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Thanks to Biden, the War Party is back

by CollisionResistance to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Buying and selling arms stock while voting on war should be illegal

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

How US media builds public support for confrontation with China ¦ A recent NBC Nightly News threat hyping segment exemplifies the fourth estate’s complicity in a march to a new cold war with Beijing.

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

How Lockheed’s $7.9B stock buyback bonanza is paid for by you ¦ The arms industry titan pockets billions a year in federal contracts then turns around and uses it to enrich its shareholders.

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Uber Russia-hawk Victoria Nuland rises to acting deputy secretary of state ¦ She’s done as much as anyone to sour US-Russia ties; now, she is one of Washington’s top diplomats.Establishment BS

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Zaporizhzhia and the danger of media blinders in war

by penelopepnortney to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Weapons firms, donors tied to industry-friendly Atlantic Council report ¦ Surprise: a think tank commission pressing for more greased skids is stacked with people with ties to SAIC, Raytheon, and more.

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

You know your warmongering is extreme when AOC won't even go along with it. Banned cluster munitions were a war crime when Russia uses them but A-OK when the Ukraine Nazis do.

by Chipit to /s/politics from responsiblestatecraft.org

Over clusters, Biden faces harshest resistance yet from his left flank

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

Why the American people should push for peace

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

NATO’s Article 5 does not override Congress’s war powers | We must make clear that ‘an attack on one is an attack on all’ does not automatically trigger a US military response. ( It is a sad day when Rand Paul has become one of the few voices of reason)

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Do laws preventing Chinese from buying US land even make sense?

by penelopepnortney to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Branko Marcetic: Is the US military more intent on ending Ukraine war than US diplomats? - There are growing reports that unlike the guys with guns, the civilians are discouraging negotiations and talk of a ceasefire.

by Inuma to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

The eight commissioners reviewing Biden’s National Defense Strategy (NDS) are "largely comprised of individuals with financial ties to the weapons industry and U.S. government contractors."

by Chipit to /s/corruption from responsiblestatecraft.org

McCarthy weighing $75B defense budget cut in quest for speakership

by Drewski to /s/politics from responsiblestatecraft.org

Did Russia and China sign a secret defense pact?

by Drewski to /s/WorldPolitics from responsiblestatecraft.org

Survey: Americans want to scale back military entanglements

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

Why Germany's pursuit of peace in Ukraine is paralyzed - Responsible Statecraft

by penelopepnortney to /s/WayOfTheBern from responsiblestatecraft.org

Why the US must press for a ceasefire in Ukraine

by [deleted] to /s/WarWatch from responsiblestatecraft.org

Biden’s abysmal response to the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh

by Drewski to /s/politics from responsiblestatecraft.org

Boris Johnson interfering with a possible peace deal for Ukraine

by [deleted] to /s/WarWatch from responsiblestatecraft.org

How even a limited nuclear war would destroy the planet

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

US foreign arms sales spike to nearly $20B in the dog days of summer

by [deleted] to /s/WarWatch from responsiblestatecraft.org

Why is Biden joining the warpath against Iran?

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

The horrible dangers of pushing a US proxy war in Ukraine

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

Rand Paul: Promoting negotiations over war doesn't make you a Putin sympathizer

by Drewski to /s/politics from responsiblestatecraft.org

Putin's move on Donetsk, Lugansk is illegal but falls short of new 'invasion'

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

The 'imminent' Taiwan conflagration: two questions to ponder

by Drewski to /s/politics from responsiblestatecraft.org

Rand Paul wants to kill $650M missile sale to Saudi Arabia

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

Has neo-Orientalism killed our ability to sense the limits of Western influence? The failure of Afghanistan should open our eyes to the fact that we don’t really know other countries and cultures at all.

by Chipit to /s/WorldPolitics from responsiblestatecraft.org

Top defense firms spend $1B on lobbying during Afghan war, see $2T return – Responsible Statecraft. Everyone except the military industrial complex lost the ‘war on terror.’

by Chipit to /s/corruption from responsiblestatecraft.org

Politico runs Lockheed Martin puff piece amid sponsorship questions – Responsible Statecraft. A recent article on the company’s secret weapons facility read more like promotional content.

by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from responsiblestatecraft.org

Why is CNN doing PR for a Middle Eastern dictatorship? The cable news giant is an ‘official broadcaster’ of an upcoming UAE state-run, six-month ‘expo’ that is seemingly meant to burnish its global image.

by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from responsiblestatecraft.org

'A horrible mistake': Recovering from America’s imperial delusions. If policymakers fancy that the United States has some sort of obligation to “lead,” then they’ll have to reimagine what leading really means.

by Chipit to /s/WorldNews from responsiblestatecraft.org

Has neo-Orientalism killed our ability to sense the limits of Western influence? The failure of Afghanistan should open our eyes to the fact that we don’t really know other countries and cultures at all.

by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from responsiblestatecraft.org

Don’t let the Afghanistan generals deflect, displace, or dissemble. Top commanders are looking for absolution (while blaming their civilian masters). But what we need is accountability.

by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from responsiblestatecraft.org

I blew the whistle on my government after 9/11 but fear it did not matter – Responsible Statecraft

by Budget-song-budget to /s/Antiwar from responsiblestatecraft.org

US plays unnecessary hand, pledging to 'go nuclear' to defend allies

by Drewski to /s/news from responsiblestatecraft.org