William Astore

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. Omer Bartov is a historian who specializes in German military history and genocide studies.

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern coined the term MICIMATT to describe America's sprawling national (in)security state. It's an expanded version of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's military-industrial-congressional complex, which Ike warned America about in 1961. (Ike originally included Congress in his warning, but in the speech he gave he left it out so as not to offend the DC elites.)

Whether they like it or not (and they seem very much to like it), the Democratic Party has become America's war party.

Ninety-nine American healthcare workers who volunteered to work in Gaza and who've witnessed the effects of the Israeli onslaught there suggest that nearly 120,000 Palestinians are already dead.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country faces war on seven fronts and called them the “enemies of civilization.” Heavy Israeli airstrikes pounded southern Beirut overnight, with the military saying it was targeting Hezbollah.

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. Originally posted for Veterans Day in 2020. I come from a family of veterans.

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. Trump and the war hawks. Or war sluts . Or war pigs. I thought about all three of these.

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. I woke to this disconcerting story from CNN:

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. In my morning news feed from the New York Times came this article on Tulsi Gabbard:

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. What is the point of playing Russian roulette – with Russia?