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The Distraction of Joe Biden
W.J. Astore What genocide? What war? What militarism? Joe Biden has become a major distraction. Much like Donald Trump, he’s demanding far too much attention. As genocide continues in Gaza, as war...
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“Generation Warfighter” Needs to End
W.J. Astore Empty Boasts of Having the “World’s Best” Military Hide Rot, Waste, and Stupidity Sixteen years ago, I made a plea to my fellow citizens to banish the word “warfighter” from our...
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Selling the Russia-Ukraine War to Trump
W.J. Astore This Week in U.S. Militarism During his one debate with Joe Biden, Donald Trump made the audacious claim that if reelected in November he would end the Russia-Ukraine War before his...
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Multicultural Militarism
W.J. Astore The Bombs Land Softer When a Latina Lesbian Drops Them Listening to Chris Hedges and Cornel West the other day, I heard them use the term “multicultural militarism” to describe the...
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Dude, Where’s My Country?
W.J. Astore Peace Through Strength! As a retired U.S. military officer, I’m appalled at the notion of “peace through strength.” You may as well say “war is peace.” Peace is achieved through dialogue....
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Close Down the Pentagon!
W.J. Astore Send the “troops” to the front! Coming soon to a Kindle store near you: all my articles for TomDispatch, with a new introduction by me and a foreword by Tom Engelhardt. You can preorder it...
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“War are the only ones … who can do this”
W.J. Astore American exceptionalism in action in Yemen The so-called SignalGate scandal centered on the bombing of Yemen is highly revelatory. First, some resources. CNN has a useful annotated account...
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Wars Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Dead
W.J. Astore On Ending Militarism in America Also at TomDispatch.com I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man named Elon Musk. But he lost out on one thing: he didn’t get a top secret briefing...
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Beware of Militarism and Nationalism
W.J. Astore Responses from Readers I was going through old notes and came across emails written to me from 2009 in response to an article I wrote for TomDispatch about militarism in America and its...
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What Does AI Say About My Writing?
W.J. Astore Insights from My Computer Friends I recently checked in with HAL 9000, actually ChatGPT and DeepSeek, to see what AI says about my writing on military policy. I’ll let ChatGPT go first:...
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The Real Evil Empire?
Serving In (or Thinking About) the U.S. Military for 40 Years BILL ASTORE Below is my latest article for TomDispatch.com. Why do I write these articles? I started in 2007, this is 2025, and after 112...
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Trump’s Military Parade
The Triumph of Trump’s Will BILL ASTORE MAY 28, 2025 When I think of celebratory military parades with lots of heavy weaponry and the like, images of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union come to mind....
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