German leaders have responded to war in Ukraine with huge increases in defense spending, breaking with the culture of pacifism that emerged after World War II and marking a new wave of militarization.

Drone attacks were sold to the American people as a way to limit U.S. involvement in Pakistan. In reality, U.S. empire has only continued to exert influence.

From drone strikes to counterinsurgency efforts, the work of the late historian Nasser Hussain highlights the importance of understanding the mechanics of the War on Terror, not just its effects.

Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it.

While Japanese and U.S. officials celebrate a demilitatization in the pacific islands, Okinawans protest persistent military colonialism.

Watch our release of documentary short The Rifleman, which examines how NRA head Harlon Carter fused gun rights, immigration enforcement, and white supremacy. Then read an interview with filmmaker Sierra Pettengill and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

U.S. political elites sold the United Nations to the public as a route to global peace. In reality they wanted it as a cover for militarization.

In a world imperiled by global pandemic, it is long past time to put an end to sanctions—including new ones against Iran—and to reconstruct U.S. foreign policy around international solidarity.

Despite claims to the contrary, the Trump administration wants regime change in Iran and is risking a full-scale war in order to get it.

More than simple racism or discrimination, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination.

The UN's "responsibility to protect" framework has failed to achieve a just international order. The Caribbean movement for reparations points the way forward.

With virtually no democratic oversight and over 6,500 missiles in the United States alone, the use of nuclear weapons is almost inevitable. So why is it so hard to think about nuclear war?

The Doomsday Clock is set to two minutes to midnight—the same position it held in 1953, when the United States and USSR detonated their first hydrogen bombs. So why don't we make movies about nuclear war anymore? 

It reflects, like a funhouse mirror, a twisted image of U.S. imperialism.

Trump has promised a Korean "peace regime." But whose peace is being insured? And who is subject to its imposition? 

Standing Rock shows us that businesses don't simply silence protestors, they also discredit and bankrupt them.

Could Trump's repudiation of the Iran Deal be the beginning of the end of U.S. hegemony abroad?

On becoming the collateral damage of American warmongering.

Since its origins, the United States has grappled with the role of the military in a democracy. Given Trump's latest moves, do the people still decide who will be killed in their name?

Myths of American exceptionalism.

Why does needless military spending remain impervious to reduction, while critically needed domestic programs are slashed?

Cooperative Security: The Military Problem.