US Armed Forces
In Op-Ed, 10 Ex-Defense Secretaries Say Military Has No Role In...
January 4, 2021
The U.S. presidential election, and the time for questioning its results, are over, all 10 living former secretaries of defense wrote in...
Trump Pressures Pence to Reject Electoral Votes
The vice president plays a crucial but largely ceremonial role in certifying the election results in Congress. Here’s how Congress’s election tally actually works.
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Trump taking control of NSA
A Trump loyalist is installed at the National Security Agency.
By Julian E. Barnes
Nov. 10, 2020
A Trump loyalist has been appointed as the top lawyer...
Trump’s Self-Coup
by Ted Rall
December 30, 2020
Late last month I wrote that there was a strong chance–I called it 50-50—that Donald Trump would engineer a “self...
More ‘Dictatorship Than a Democracy’: Trump Purge at Pentagon Increases Fears...
"The purge happening at the Department of Defense, in the middle of a messy transition, should worry us all."
by Kenny Stancil
Nov. 11, 2020
Fears that a...
Carl Bernstein Says Latest Trump Tapes Are ‘Far Worse’ Than Watergate
Audio of the president trying to persuade a Georgia official to change election results is “the ultimate smoking gun tape,” the Watergate journalist said.
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Tape reveals Trump gangster methods in pursuing election coup
By Patrick Martin
4 January 2021
In an hour-long telephone conversation Saturday, leaked to the media and first made public Sunday by the Washington Post, President...
Middle East: Again on the brink. Israel and “intra-imperialist” games
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
January 2nd, 2020
"To understand the situation, figure out that now, in Washington, the main obstacle to war is a man called Mad...
Pentagon Officials Divided Over Threat of an Iranian Attack
In sign of possible de-escalation, the US is pulling an aircraft carrier out of the Middle East
Posted on December 31, 2020s
After weeks...
Pentagon brass on “red alert” over Trump’s coup plotting
By Bill Van Auken
28 December 2020
The senior US military command is operating at what amounts to a state of high alert in anticipation of...