反击:退役陆军退伍军人哀悼美国中东政策
由于美国军方,空中力量以及中央情报局的无人机部队即将进入第18年的“战争”,抱怨正在孕育,阴谋正在展开,新的恐怖组织正在招募新兵。
由于美国军方,空中力量以及中央情报局的无人机部队即将进入第18年的“战争”,抱怨正在孕育,阴谋正在展开,新的恐怖组织正在招募新兵。
这个国家从来没有如此依赖赤字支出来支付其冲突。预计后果对于美国的长期财政健康是毁灭性的,但它们远远超出了经济。
In the name of the fight against terrorism, the United States is currently waging “credit-card wars” in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere. Never before has this country relied so
Stephanie Savell is co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. An anthropologist, she has conducted research on security and civic engagement in the U.S. and in Brazil. She co-authored The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life.
The costs of America’s wars, still spreading in the Trump era, are incalculable and go far beyond the trillions spent on perpetuating America’s wars.
As I was putting the finishing touches on my new book, the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute published an estimate of the taxpayer dollars that will have gone into America’s war on terror from September 12, 2001, through fiscal year 2018. That figure: a cool
Tom Engelhardt created and runs the Tomdispatch.com website, a project of The Nation Institute where he is a Fellow. He is the author of a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture, and of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing, as well as a collection of his Tomdispatch interviews, Mission Unaccomplished. Each spring he is a Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
Given the destructiveness of the wars throughout the Middle East, can one honestly say some blowback was not inevitable?
作者 Ian Berman
The bombing in Manchester was a horrific event by any measure. There’s no justification for the senseless loss of lives. Yet given the destructiveness of the wars throughout the Middle East, can one honestly say some blowback was not inevitable? As recently revealed, the British
Manchester is the latest iteration of a scenario we’ve gone through so many times now, like some groundhog-day dream.
作者 Jim Kavanagh
On November 20, 2015, two jihadi militants attacked the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali, seizing about 100 hostages and “leaving bodies strewed across the building.” When it was over, 22 people (including the attackers) had been killed. As the New York