Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
ICE Brings War Home
Killing, wounding, threatening, or investigating observers are just some of the many abuses and violent tactics of immigration officers in the era of Donald Trump.
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Africa | Online Blog | USA
The Pentagon Proclaims Failure in its War on Terror in Africa
America’s Global War on Terror has seen its share of stalemates, disasters, and outright defeats. During 20-plus years of armed interventions, the United States has watched its efforts implode in spectacular fashion, from Iraq in 2014 to Afghanistan in 2021. Its greatest failure however, may not be in the Middle East, but in Africa.
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Afghanistan | Online Blog | Terrorism | USA
What U.S. Africa Command Doesn’t Want You to Know
A telling reminder of just what a strange and unnerving American world of war and secrecy we’ve been plunged into since September 11, 2001.
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War Torn: Continental Drifters and the Nationless Nation
The number of people displaced by war, general violence, or human-rights violations last year swelled to a staggering 84 million, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency. If they formed their own country, it would be the 17th largest in the world, slightly bigger than Iran or Germany.
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The War on Terror is a Success…for Terror
On Sept 20, 2001, President Bush declared a “war on terror”. It has meant a 20-year slide to defeat in Afghanistan, a proliferation of militant groups across the Middle East and Africa, and a world-spanning war that has killed about 300 times the number of people murdered in America on 9/11.
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This Vanishing Moment and Our Vanishing Future
Reading about John Hersey’s Hiroshima experience in a world that somehow refuses to grasp, even on an increasingly apocalyptic planet, what nuclear war truly means.
