Category: National Security
Trump Withdraws From Key Treaty, Fueling Fears of Revived Arms Race
by Karl Grossman | Jun 23, 2020 | National Security, PoliticsDonald Trump is hell-bent to have the United States produce and deploy new and more lethal nuclear weapons—and to pave the way, he has opted to withdraw from a carefully constructed web of international arms control agreements that, although not totally perfect, have effectively deterred the use and slowed the spread of the doomsday arsenal. […]
Politics, Pork, and Culture of Violence Drive Military Debate
by Gordon Adams | Jun 15, 2017 | National Security, PoliticsIn the emerging American dystopia, reaching for the gun has become the order of the day. From Ferguson and the militarizing of police equipment, through the execution-style killings in Charleston, through the uniformed immigration dragnet bringing fear to 11 million undocumented residents, to serial executions in Arkansas, to Trump’s April speech to the NRA convention, […]
The New Alien Exclusion Act
by Lou Dubose | Mar 23, 2017 | National Security, PoliticsWhen you have so many immigrants being admitted, they tend to cluster together, they tend to maybe be a bit more slow in learning the English language, to becoming acculturated, to becoming patriotic Americans,” Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) told NPR reporter John Burnett in early February. Smith has been a genteel nativist for decades, but […]
The Nuclear Debate
by Gordon Adams | Feb 14, 2017 | National Security, PoliticsNuclear weapons are back in vogue, including the idea that gearing up to fight a nuclear war might be a wonderfully stabilizing prospect. Ah, the fond memories: the 1983 TV movie The Day After, the nuclear freeze campaign, the B-1 bomber debate, the M-X missile fight. You don’t remember these seminal events and debates? In […]
First They Came for the Muslim-Americans
by Aviva Stahl | Aug 16, 2016 | National Security, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Thomas Hawk For those of us who think or write about surveillance, the events of May and June 2013 represented a crucial turning point in our sense of what was possible. Edward Snowden’s release of classified documents changed the way many Americans thought about their relationship to national security agencies. It shattered the […]