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BC guest Commentator WJ Astore is the Creator of Bracing Views. Contributor to TomDispatch, Truthout, HNN, Alternet, Huffington Post, Antiwar, and other sites. Retired AF lieutenant colonel and professor of history. Senior fellow, Eisenhower Media Network.
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This week at Fox News, Tucker Carlson suggested the rioters were mostly peaceful respectful sightseers.
Yoda, the Jedi Master, once told Luke Skywalker that the future is difficult to see because it’s always in motion. So too is the past. Always…
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we need to talk a lot less about “gun rights,” as if guns are people instead of tools that kill people, and much more about personal responsibility.
More mass shooting in America followed by more empty words by politicians. What can we do? Even if we cut the number of guns in America…
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Where are the leaders with the courage to advocate for peace whenever possible in place of more and more war?
As a teenager in the 1970s, I recall talking to my dad about fears of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. My…
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Permanent war is the new normal in America, justified as always in terms of making the world safe for democracy.
W.J. Astore In 1961, in his famous farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned America about the military-industrial complex. He said it potentially posed a grave…
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What we can look forward to is two more years of divided, do-nothing government in Washington, DC, with politics being dominated by Donald Trump’s new run for the presidency
I woke up to the news the Democrats will keep control of the Senate through 2024. Democracy is saved! I guess the Russian bots didn’t steal…
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How are we to make sense and reach sound decisions about war if we refuse to study and understand it?
We sure could use honest and critical teaching about military history and war in America. I don’t mean celebratory BS. I don’t mean potted histories of…
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As long as war remains a business for the U.S., and as long as people are profiting from it, not just in monetary terms but in terms of power, war will remain supreme in U.S. foreign policy.
War is the business of the state. That can be read in more than one way. Back in the 17th and 18th centuries, many wars were…
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Don’t worry, it’s just a “little” tactical nuke!
With Russia issuing warnings about using all weapons at its disposal to protect its position in Ukraine, it’s a good time to talk about the distinction…
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It's time to use logic and make major cuts. Force the military to think rather than to spend.
If you truly want to help the U.S. military, slash its yearly budget. It's counter intuitive, right? We think more money will help the Pentagon field…
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