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" The report is titled Endless War: The Destroyed Land, Life, and Identity of the Tamils in Sri Lanka."

Afghan security forces still need US help to stand on their own, watchdog warns March 16 U.S. service members secure the perimeter at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan in support of Operation Resolute Support on March 17, 2020. (Staff Sgt. Joel Pfiester/Air Force) With less than two months before a deadline to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, local security forces there are unprepared to stand up on their own despite years of training and investment from foreign allies, a go...

Saudi Arabia should end the blockade of Yemen and start talks with rebel factions

Irans Revolutionary Guard Is Radicalizing Young Men Across the Middle East. The U.S. Needs a Counterinsurgency Strategy Time 2/11/2021 Saeid Golkar © Morteza Nikoubazl—NurPhoto via Getty Images An Iranian boy holds a flag with a portrait of the former Iranian commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, General Qasem Soleimani during a rally in Tehran to commemorate the 42nd Victory anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on Feb. 10, 2021 Like his s...

Waging Peace Brainwashed to Violence As I was trying to wrap my head around the implications of the attack on the Capitol in preparation for writing for this week’s blog, my friend Kristin Christman sent me the piece below.   Since the events of 9/11, Kristin has been working tirelessly, through scholarly historical, psychological and sociological research and deep personal reflection, to analyze both the roots of and alternatives to violence especially as applied to current US f...

A report released on Friday detailed how analysts at the Defense Intelligence Agency bought databases of US smartphone location data in recent years without obtaining...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has vowed to impeach US President Donald Trump less than two weeks before he leaves office.

In 1624, English poet John Donne penned his famous poem ‘No Man Is an Island’, sublimely evoking the reality of human unity: ‘Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.’ Therefore, he concluded his poem, ‘never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.’ Robert j. Burrowes This report does two things. First, in the hope of generating greater consideration of the human condition and the state of the planet, I have presented in straightforward la...

The Endless War to Preserve American Primacy Unable to achieve victory abroad, the United States has been battered by an accumulation of crises at home. The two are related. By Andrew Bacevich December 21, 2020 " Information Clearing House" -  For nearly two decades now, the United States has been waging a war to preserve American primacy. That’s not the official name, of course, but that describes the war’s act...

Washington Post Publishes Evidence-Free Claims of Russian Hacking Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/radio_the_critical_hour/202012171081485432-washington-post-publishes-evidence-free-claims-of-russian-hacking/ An infamous PropOrNot author teams with an associate of the UK government-funded Integrity Initiative to pen a Washington Post article flush with dubious claims about Russian activities. / Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals...