War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. It kills innocent adults and little girls. It often ruins the post-war lives of the killers. It is young men violently fighting old men's power games. It is ...
Politicians say they can "make the economy work better." I once believed they could. But years of reporting taught me that politicians' attempts to "fix" the economy usually make things worse. Twenty years ago, Republicans and Democrats helped create the Great Recession by telling ...
The Philadelphia Inquirer says the Cost of the war with Iran keeps rising Donald Trump spent the weekend threatening to commit war crimes in Iran, only to back away Monday morning — just in time for financial markets to rebound. Trump postponed his ultimatum to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants for another five days, claiming “good” talks to end the conflict. (It is unclear who the president is talking to since Iran denied any exchange.) Obviously, the sooner Trump ends his unnecessary and unfocused war, the better. Apparently, only he has a vague idea of why the war ...
Oh, no. Stars and Stripes is under fire again. Controversy is not exactly unknown to the legendary military newspaper. Born during the Civil War, Stars and Stripes has taken all sorts of flak and survived, impressively for a publication owned and operated by the U.S. military that ...
Early Monday morning, financial markets surged when President Donald Trump claimed there had been productive talks with Iran about ending the war. Therefore he backed off a vow to bomb Iranian power plants if the Strait of Hormuz wasn't reopened by Monday evening. Iran denies any such talks ...
To the Journal editor: Alarming and troubling are the words I use to describe what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently said when he invoked the name of "Jesus Christ" during his remarks at a Pentagon press conference on March 20 whose purpose was to pray for our troops and honor our fallen soldiers in the war against Iran. This was the official Secretary of Defense in an official governmental briefing directing the American public to pray—in a specific religion, in the name of a specific savior for a war that has killed thousands. But this war is unjustified. No one attacked the ...
