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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought immense suffering to the people of that land, while sparking calls for increased military spending in both the - William D. Hartung for Antiwar.com Original

Tom Engelhardt is a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The United States of Fear as well as a history of the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture.

Who even remembers when President Bush – no, not George W. but his father! – exclaimed, "By God, we’ve kicked the Vietnam Syndrome!" That was in - Andrew Bacevich for Antiwar.com Original

Originally posted at TomDispatch. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” is an old American adage. Venerable, time-tested, and seemingly true, - Andrew Bacevich for Antiwar.com Original

Ann Jones is a journalist and author whose works include Kabul in Winter (2006) and War Is Not Over When It’s Over (2010), both from Metropolitan Books. Her latest book is called They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return From America's Wars—The Untold Story. She lives in Norway.

John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, is the author of North Korea, South Korea: U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis (Seven Stories). His past essays, including for Tomdispatch.com, can be read at his website.

Originally posted at TomDispatch. The bad news stemming from the ill-planned and ill-managed U.S. evacuation of the Afghan capital just kept coming in. - Andrew Bacevich for Antiwar.com Original

Antiwar.com Original Originally posted at TomDispatch. This editor’s note introduced the single article that took up almost every inch of space in the August 31, 1946, New Yorker magazine: “TO OUR READERS: The New Yorker this week devotes its entire editorial space to an article on the almost complete obliteration of a city by one atomic bomb, and what happened to the people of that city. It does so in the conviction that few of us have yet comprehended the all b...

Frostlands, a Dispatch Books original, is volume two of his  Splinterlands series and the final novel,  Songlands, will be published in June. He has also written  The nightmare is over. The vanquished beast has crawled back to Mar-a-Lago to lick his wounds. The heroes are hard at work repairing the damage. As America returns to the international stage, the world heaves a collective sigh of relief. That, at least, is the story the incoming Biden administration is telling. “America is back...