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More than simple racism or discrimination, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination.
Nikhil Pal Singh
The barrage of attacks that followed Trump’s decision to reduce the U.S. military presence in Syria obscures the decades-long bankruptcy of the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
Andrew J. Bacevich, Rajan Menon
From PTSD to dissenting.
Rosie Gillies, Boston Review
During the Cold War, the “police apparatus” was held up as a prime example of Soviet repression. Yet in its efforts to fight subversives, the United States ended up with its own carceral state.
Stuart Schrader
Wars may begin like they always have, but they no longer end as they once did. We need an ethics of war termination to hold politicians accountable.
Elad Uzan
In 2001, three frameworks for handling international crises emerged: the War on Terror, an ill-defined "responsibility to protect" struggling countries, and the Caribbean movement for reparations. The first two have failed, but the third may still have something to tell us.
Adom Getachew
With virtually no democratic oversight and over 6,500 missiles in the United States alone, the use of nuclear weapons is almost inevitable. So why is it so hard to think about nuclear war?
Elaine Scarry, Rachel Ablow
The Doomsday Clock is set to two minutes to midnight—the same position it held in 1953, when the United States and USSR detonated their first hydrogen bombs. So why don't we make movies about nuclear war anymore?
Stephen Phelan
It reflects, like a funhouse mirror, a twisted image of U.S. imperialism.
Jeanne Morefield
The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Your fourth of July reading.
Trump has promised a Korean "peace regime." But whose peace is being insured? And who is subject to its imposition?
Jessie Kindig
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