Category: National Security
Searching for the Trigger
by Jonathan M. Winer | Jun 23, 2025 | National SecurityTrump has begun planning to invoke the Insurrection Act. Here’s how he could turn America’s military into a new domestic nationwide policing force. On June 7, 2025, President Donald J. Trump ordered the federalization of 2,000 members of the California National Guard under 10 U.S.C. § 12406, citing what he called an “unlawful rebellion” in […]
Caesar in California
by Jonathan M. Winer | Jun 9, 2025 | National SecurityThe legal confrontation between the federal government and the State of California entered a new phase on June 7, 2025, when President Donald J. Trump invoked 10 U.S.C. § 12406, a statute that allows the President to place National Guard units under federal control in cases of rebellion or obstruction of law, thereby federalizing elements […]
Trash the $140.9 Billion Sentinel ICBM Program Now!
by Robert Rudney | Jun 5, 2025 | National SecurityThe Air Force has recently acknowledged that the Minuteman III ICBM decommissioning will likely not terminate until 2050 and possibly beyond. This protracted delay is due to multiple cost-overruns and scheduling setbacks in the development of the Sentinel ICBM program, the updated nuclear missile system intended to replace the Minuteman. The Sentinel deployment is now […]
Operation Crossroads: “The World’s First Nuclear Disaster”
by Robert Alvarez | May 29, 2025 | National SecurityWith Trump back in office, the recurring question of the need for nuclear weapons testing has resurfaced in the national security debate. Project 2025’s directive that the US return to “immediate test readiness” raises further alarm, given the primacy of that document in Trump’s circle. The general uncertainty around current U.S. nuclear posture gives added […]
Are Minuteman ICBMs Killing Their Launch Crews?
by Robert Rudney | Feb 10, 2025 | Health, National SecurityFor over forty years, the Minuteman silo-based ICBMs formed one critical leg of the sacrosanct US nuclear triad, hypothetically deterring Soviet Politburo members from unleashing World War III. As far as can be ascertained, the 400 Minuteman III missiles, each reportedly armed with a 300-kiloton warhead sufficient to cause over a million deaths if detonated […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety