A Trail of Tears: War Wounds

Originally posted at TomDispatch.America’s Father’s Day was first celebrated on June 19, 1910, in Washington State. That was only a few years before Ann Jones’s father went to war. His was the Great War which turned out – with its trenches of frozen mud, rats and...

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The Insane ‘Option’ of Attacking Iran

Eric Brewer argues that Iran’s shorter “breakout” time to acquiring enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon requires the U.S. to be ready to attack much more quickly:The most impactful step the United States could take, however, would be to shorten military...

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