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Budget Woes Sign of a Dysfunctional Empire
Budget Woes Sign of a Dysfunctional Empire The bloated military budget is justified on the assumption that the United States can and should police the entire world, but this approach is fundamentally unsustainable, warns Jonathan Marshall. President Donald Trump’s latest $4.4 trillion budget proposal calls for boosting military spending by nearly $200 billion over the […]
Lavishing Money on the Pentagon
Lavishing Money on the Pentagon Exclusive: It seems like it’s always Christmastime at the Pentagon where the stockings are full and budget-cutting is for those domestic social-program guys, as Jonathan Marshall explains. Wise parents who celebrate Christmas advise their young children not to make unreasonably grandiose requests of Santa. After all, he has to squeeze […]
Trump Resists Progress on Global Warming
Trump Resists Progress on Global Warming Exclusive: Market trends now favor renewable energy as a cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels, but President Trump’s resistance to this good news is doing real damage in the fight against global warming, reports Jonathan Marshall. With petrochemical billionaires Charles and David Koch paying many of the GOP’s bills these […]
The Risk of NATO’s H-Bombs in Turkey
The Risk of NATO’s H-Bombs in Turkey Exclusive: As the world nervously assesses North Korea’s claims about having a hydrogen bomb, another danger point is in Turkey where an erratic leader could seize NATO’s H-Bombs, warns Jonathan Marshall. Even in this contentious era, one proposition still enjoys near-universal support: the United States should make it […]
Inflating the Russian Threat
Inflating the Russian Threat Exclusive: The U.S. mainstream media, led by The New York Times, has behaved as classic propagandists, hyping a Russian military “threat” and promoting a new Cold War hysteria, as Jonathan Marshall describes. Readers of the New York Times have more to sweat about than hot summer weather in the Big Apple. […]
The New Trump: War President
The New Trump: War President Exclusive: President Trump’s reversal on the Afghan War – now promising to “win” not withdraw – further makes him a “war president” along with his “fire and fury” belligerence over North Korea, as Jonathan Marshall observes. Say what you will about Charlottesville, the national debate over neo-Nazis at least took […]
European Union’s Imperial Overreach
European Union’s Imperial Overreach Exclusive: The European Union’s haughty and hasty expansion into low-wage Eastern Europe may be its undoing, as the Brexit vote shows popular resistance to the westward migration of workers that followed, writes Jonathan Marshall. While few analysts are putting it this way, the European Union suffers from a self-inflicted crisis of overexpansion […]
Ticking Closer to Nuclear Midnight
Ticking Closer to Nuclear Midnight Exclusive: President Obama embraced Japanese survivors of the Hiroshima bomb, but his policies, such as heightening tensions with Russia, have raised the potential for a far worse nuclear catastrophe, explains Jonathan Marshall. Even if you’ve never won an office raffle, a sports pool or a lottery, consider yourself supremely lucky. Unlike […]
Deadly Blowback from Neo-Imperial Wars
Deadly Blowback from Neo-Imperial Wars Exclusive: The E.U.’s crisis – with the post-World War II project to unify Europe spinning apart amid economic stress, refugees and terrorism – can be traced back to E.U./U.S. neo-imperial wars in the Arab world, says Jonathan Marshall. In what may be the most dramatic blowback yet from Western military intervention in […]
How US Helps Al Qaeda in Yemen
How US Helps Al Qaeda in Yemen Exclusive: The Obama administration, eager to assuage Saudi Arabia’s anger over the Iran nuclear deal and the failure to achieve “regime change” in Syria, has turned a blind eye to Riyadh’s savaging of Yemen, even though that is helping Al Qaeda militants expand their territory, writes Jonathan Marshall. For […]
NATO’s Provocative Anti-Russian Moves
NATO’s Provocative Anti-Russian Moves Official Washington’s demonization of Vladimir Putin and the neocon “group think” about “Russian aggression” have fueled a reckless drive to move NATO forces up to Russia’s border, thus heightening risks of nuclear war and not serving real U.S. national interests, writes Jonathan Marshall. Twenty-seven years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO is […]
Turkey’s Revival of a Dirty ‘Deep State’
Turkey’s Revival of a Dirty ‘Deep State’ Exclusive: NATO keeps backing Turkey, one of its members, despite its aid to the Islamic State and other jihadists fighting Syria’s secular government — and even though Turkey’s erratic President Erdogan may be leading NATO into a risky showdown with Syria’s Russian allies, writes Jonathan Marshall. Turkey’s embattled President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is […]
Feeding the Military-Industrial Complex
Feeding the Military-Industrial Complex Exclusive: Because he had commanded Allied forces in World War II, President Eisenhower understood the excesses of the war industry and warned Americans about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, a force that continues to siphon off tens of billions of tax dollars, as Jonathan Marshall explains. America’s military procurement machine may […]
How ‘Obscure’ Bureaucrats Cause Wars
How ‘Obscure’ Bureaucrats Cause Wars Exclusive: Official Washington’s anti-Russian “group think” is now so dominant that no one with career aspirations dares challenge it, a victory for “obscure” government bureaucrats, like Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, as Jonathan Marshall explains. History isn’t just made by impersonal forces and “great men” or “great women.” Sometimes relatively obscure men and […]
More Anti-Russian Bias at the NYT
More Anti-Russian Bias at the NYT Exclusive: The anti-Russian bias of the New York Times is hard to miss as it consistently puts Moscow’s actions and intentions in the worst possible light, in stark contrast to the warm glow that usually surrounds military actions by the U.S. and its “allies,” as Jonathan Marshall observes. Someone at […]
