"I fail to see the value or the worth in continued US casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year old civil war."

Having a labyrinth of 17 overlapping, paramilitarized, deeply secretive agencies doing versions of the same thing is the definition of counterproductive madness.

As the US expands its airstrikes into Syria to combat ISIS, the congresswoman calls for a "full congressional debate and vote on any military action, as required by the Constitution.”

America is now fighting the Iraq War for the third time, somehow madly expecting different results.

The war whoops of the pundit class have helped propel the nation into yet another doomed military adventure in the Middle East, but their tone is changing.

The short, strange era of human civilization may be drawing to a close, writes Noam Chomsky.

What some of last century's cast of characters -- and the lives they led -- tell us about humanity.

It's a moral imperative that we get past the sanitized versions of the two Iraq wars and grapple with the true consequences of our militarism.

By many measures, the US may be the wealthiest, most powerful nation, but its ability to accomplish anything has shrunk drastically.

Global conflicts are increasingly fueled by the desire for oil and natural gas -- and the funds they generate.