FORTY years after the end of the Vietnam War this is a country which should be rising back to its feet. Instead it is crippled…
Vietnam War
Ecclesiastes says there is a time to be silent and a time to speak. The fortieth anniversary of the ugly end of the U.S. adventure in Vietnam…
In the twenty-first-century world of drone warfare, one question with two aspects reigns supreme: Who counts? In Washington, the answers are the same: We don’t count and they don’t…
As I traveled to DC to risk arrest in an action organized by the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) I was feeling nervous, but…
If our wars in the Greater Middle East ever end, it’s a pretty safe bet that they will end badly -- and it won't be…
John Grant, a member with host Dave Lindorff of the ThisCantBeHappening.net collective and a Vietnam War veteran and long-time peace activist, talks about a Veterans…
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun. This year brings a 50th anniversary commemoration of the Vietnam War sponsored…
[The following is slightly adapted from chapters two and three of Grégoire Chamayou’s new book, A Theory of the Drone, with special thanks to his publisher, the New…
In last month’s Anti-Empire Report, I brought you the latest adventure of U.S. State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki trying to defend the indefensible. She said then: “As…
Next to secret warfare, new militarism has involved a selected range of major and overt “quickie” interventions… Western militarism constitutes, next to climate change and…
The year was 1968. I had just earned a master’s degree in history at Georgetown University, where I had also helped found the university’s chapter…
Policy intellectuals -- eggheads presuming to instruct the mere mortals who actually run for office -- are a blight on the republic. Like some invasive…