Aram Zucker-Scharff

Watch Each of the Last Four U.S. Presidents Announce That We’re Bombing Iraq:

Did last night’s primetime presidential speech announcing expanding authorization for airstrikes in Iraq and Syria feel kind of familiar? Like you’ve

Here comes the new boss. Same as the old boss.

Crazier and crazier “justifications” for war.:

American Public Turns Anti-War … Warmongers Desperately Reply, “But War Is GOOD for Us!” The American people are now overwhelmingly opposed to more war

War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, and Ignorance Is Strength. America, F*ck yeah! 

The last time we discussed the concept of America as “globocop” on the world stage, our collective pop culture derided the concept as so plainly ridiculous it could only be discussed with the aid of marionette puppet sex. Now it’s a book and a WaPo column.

I wonder if having a Democrat wage global war has in some ways normalized it. Before you could point to a group and say ‘But only THEY do it.’ Now all sides are filled with hawks. 

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Check Out The Twitter Account That President Obama Definitely Won’t Follow: On December 11, 2012, NYU graduate student Josh Begley set out to tweet details of every reported drone strike in the last decade. He thought it would take him 10 …