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Where's the Antiwar Movement in America?
Is It MIA or a POW?
Feb 13 • Bill Astore
America Hasn't Paid Attention to Ike's Warning
A Huge Military-Industrial Complex Threatens Our Rights, Our Liberties, Our Democracy
Feb 12 • Bill Astore
Will Iran Be the Next Forever War?
Lessons from Afghanistan
Feb 11 • Bill Astore
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Biden to Israel: Don't Ethnically Cleanse Too Fast
Dec 2, 2023 • Bill Astore
Edward Snowden Is a Traitor! Say it! Say it!
Jan 30, 2025 • Bill Astore
Kamala Harris and William Westmoreland
Nov 2, 2024 • Bill Astore
War, what is it good for?
Dec 9, 2023 • Bill Astore
What, Exactly, Is "Repugnant" About Efforts to Stop Mass Killing?
Oct 14, 2023 • Bill Astore
DeepSeek Steals My Thunder on the Military-Industrial Complex
Feb 1, 2025 • Bill Astore
This Isn't Freedom, It's Madness
Trump and Hegseth Call for a Bigger Iron Cross
Feb 10 • Bill Astore
"Guardrails"
The New Dishonest Word of the Moment
Feb 9 • Bill Astore
What Is Genocide?
Man's Inhumanity to Man
Feb 8 • Bill Astore
And Justice for All?
James Baldwin on "Respect for Law"
Feb 7 • Bill Astore
Wrecking Democracy in America
A Meditation on Trump's "Dream Military"
Feb 5 • Bill Astore
Beware of Stab-in-the-Back Myths
It's Never the Generals' Fault
Feb 2 • Bill Astore
FDR as an Effective War Leader
Remember when America had leaders of warmth, intelligence, and skill?
Feb 1 • Bill Astore
AI as a Runaway Bullet Train
Bursting Through the Guardrails
Jan 30 • Bill Astore
Insurgencies and America's Defeat in Vietnam
An Old Paper from 1993
Jan 29 • Bill Astore
Bracing Views
Bracing Views
U.S. militarism and politics. Making sense of a vexing and perplexing world.
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