The War In America's Backyard
America is at war across the world, but it’s also at war at home. For decades, violent crime has been at record lows across the country—but that’s slowly changing as cities such as Baltimore, Chicago,...
22 Mar 201944min
Everything You Know about Putin (and Russia) Is Wrong
We need to talk about Putin. Of all the leaders of state nobody is as maligned, studied, and over-analyzed as Russian President Vladimir Putin. He’s a KGB thug, he’s playing three dimensional chess wh...
15 Mar 201951min
The Arms Business is Booming
War is a racket and damn, business is good. When it comes to the global arms trade, no one sells more weapons than the United States of America. The US controls about a third of the nearly 100 billion...
8 Mar 201932min
Breaking Down Complex Conflict Between India and Pakistan
On February 14, a 20-year old man drove a car packed with explosives into a bus full of Indian Central Reserve Police Forces. 40 of the police officers died in the attack. This happened in an Indian c...
1 Mar 201952min
The Secret History of the Pentagon's Hollywood Studio
At the end of World War II and deep into the Cold War, the American Military operated a strange building deep in the Hollywood Hills. It was the 1352nd Photographic Group of the United States Air Forc...
22 Feb 201932min
The Kurds are In a "Double Colonial Bind"
The Kurds are a people without a country. They occupy large swaths of land in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran but have no central government. Kurdish fighters have been constant allies in America’s figh...
15 Feb 201950min
This Is (Not) Sparta!
When you hear the word Sparta, there’s an immediate association with war and the military. Of the Greek City States, it’s the one most associated with battle. Spartan men were expected to be warriors ...
9 Feb 201946min
What Cigarettes Tell Us About the Military-Industrial Complex
Drugs and the battlefield go together like peanut butter and jelly. The Third Reich’s soldier ran on methamphetamine and American soldiers smoked like chimneys. The picture of the US GI with a burning...
1 Feb 201939min
