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Getting out the vote in Pennsylvania

A Very American Malaise

Demanding Palestinian recognition at the convention

The American state has lost the capacity for concentrated and decisive effort at the forefront of technology and the associated science.

The military industrial complex is suiting up for a new arms race, far beyond the stratosphere

The world is finally talking about them.

But Is It Truly the Arsenal of Democracy?

Technically, drone technology has been around for quite a long time, going back to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. It is only in the last two decades when drones have been weaponized with guns, bombs, and missiles.

Several new memoirs from disillusioned military veterans reflect on the horrors of war. They’re essential tools for challenging US empire.

Those now promoting the path to war with ever more, ever heavier weapons, sparing no thought for the costs, are the expression of a veritably apocalyptic mood in our society which no longer believes in real social progress