Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society ─ its worldview, its basic value... Read more
The fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk has intensified consideration about potential threats, experts said. British authorities had already made extensive security plans. [...]
In a notice to Congress, the Trump administration said the additional $58 million would go to the U.S. Marshals Service. It also said it supported additional security for lawmakers. [...]
Representative Michael McCaul, an 11-term Texas Republican who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced on Sunday that he would retire from Congress. [...]
The secretary of state is visiting Israel to consult with officials on security issues including the war in Gaza, which is testing relations with the United States. [...]
Activists tend to see the climate crisis and US militarism as two separate issues. However, the hard-hitting documentary Earth’s Greatest Enemy persuasively argues that, in fact, the two are inextricably [...]
PAVN troops, circa 1966 US Army, Command and General Staff College, Combined Arms Research Library, Center for Military History: Vietnam Studies. PAVN troops, circa 1966 US Army, Command and General [...]
Many of those righteously condemning the rise of "political violence" have supported two years of genocidal violence in Gaza and recently celebrated when the President of the US released a [...]
Trump has sought to undermine every stabilizing institution of American political or civil society: Congress, the courts, federal agencies, universities, law and medicine. Were his goals not so corrupt and [...]
Trump’s obsession with violence is more than a grotesque fixation on power and cruelty; it is a commentary on politics as pathology, a grim theater in which authoritarianism reveals its [...]