Turkey has NATO's second biggest army, and its military love affair with Russia may be in its infancy now, but it undermines NATO's military deterrence against Russia...
"As a veteran of two imperial wars, a witness to the dark underside of America’s empire-denial...There are times when I wish that the United States would just drop the charade and declare itself a global empire..."
While US Administrations engaged in “regime change” have generally tried to mask their real intentions, this US-backed coup is remarkable for how honest its backers are being...
The fact that it still exists after seventy years shows enormous dedication to maintenance of an organisation that should have been disbanded at the same time as the Warsaw Pact...
"Modernization of the US strategic nuclear deterrent, often referred to by those who oppose it as 'dangerous nuclear schemes', will require multiple decades to complete... a bipartisan consensus needs to continue annually..."
Our battered American common culture and its expression in political consensus ought to start with the foundation of the social contract: the agreement to not slaughter each other.
