National Security

Anger In The GCC Spreads As Iran Retaliates Over US-Israeli Strikes

March 21, 2026 Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. Educate! Gulf States, Iran, National Security, United States, Wars and Militarism, West Asia

As a collection of foreign ministers from GCC and other nearby countries gathered in Riyadh on Wednesday to discuss the war Israel and the United States launched against Iran and its attendant economic fallout, four Iranian missiles were intercepted by Saudi defenses over the outer edge of the city. Saudi Arabia was visibly angered at the latest attack, deeming it an intentional display of force at a time ministers from so many countries would be there to see it. Iran also infuriated Qatar by attacking a major natural gas facility in that country. Qatar expelled two Iranian diplomats in response, a major step for a country that prides itself on its status as a mediator of conflicts.

Top US Counterterror Chief Joe Kent Resigns Over Iran War

March 18, 2026 Ramzy Baroud, Mintpress News. Educate! Iran, Israeli Lobby, Joe Kent, National Security, Resignation, Trump Administration, Wars and Militarism

Joe Kent’s resignation is not an anomaly but an alarm: elite dissent is surfacing early because this war is built on deception. Joe Kent’s resignation is shocking, but not for the obvious reason. It is not shocking simply because it comes from within the Trump administration. Any administration of that size, stretching across thousands of officials, operatives and career personnel, will contain people who, despite the surrounding culture, still draw moral lines of their own. Even an administration defined by blunt militarism, racialized rhetoric and an unapologetic embrace of force is not morally monolithic. There is always room, however narrow, for someone to say: enough.

Iranians Probably Wished To Hell They Had Developed Nuclear Weapons!

March 14, 2026 US Army Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Strategize! Iran, National Security, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

Including the minute when the US and Israel fired missiles and dropped bombs on the home of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his wife and other members of his family killing over 40 members of the leadership of Iran, senior Iranian officials had maintained that Iran would never develop a nuclear bomb. The Omani Foreign Minister who was in discussions with Iran and the United States on February 27, 2026 only days before the U.S./Israeli attack on Iran said Iran agreed to "never, ever have … nuclear material that will create a bomb."

Israel’s Qatar Attack Rattles The Gulf

September 18, 2025 As'Ad Abukhalil, Consortium News. Educate! Hamas, Israel, National Security, qatar, Wars and Militarism, West Asia

The Israeli attack on Qatar on Sept. 9 has undermined the very foundations of the security arrangement between the United States and the Gulf monarchies. Since the 1980’s Iran-Iraq war, Washington conditioned its military commitment to the region on Gulf rulers granting the U.S. greater access to their territories — even if that meant compromising sovereignty. In return, the Gulf countries expected U.S. protection against external threats. Rulers poured billions into constructing American military bases, often at their own expense, and tolerated the political risks of inviting foreign troops into their lands. Initially, Gulf regimes were reluctant to display such ties openly, fearing popular opposition, especially during the heyday of Arab nationalism.

Arab-Islamic Leaders Gather In Doha To Reject Israeli ‘Treachery’

September 16, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Arab States, Israel, National Security, qatar, West Asia

Qatar hosted on 15 September an emergency Arab-Islamic summit aimed at rejecting Israel’s recent attack on Doha, which targeted Hamas leaders as they were meeting to discuss a US ceasefire proposal for Gaza. The summit consisted of members of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was among several regional leaders who attended the meeting on Monday. “The capital of my country was subjected to a treacherous attack targeting a residence housing families of Hamas leaders and its negotiating delegation,” Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani said while addressing the summit. Al-Thani said the “terrorist attack” was “cowardly” and “despicable,” adding that Israel’s plans to “impose new realities” on the Arabs were “dangerous,” stressing that these plans “will not pass.”

Sanctuary Cities And International Security

May 19, 2025 Robert Koehler, Counter Punch. Educate! Colorado, Immigrant Rights, National Security, Sanctuary Cities, Trump Administration

As Trump and friends claim control over the country, celebrating their war on migrants – “the enemy” of the moment, whom they’ve created and dehumanized – much of America writhes in shock and irony as it looks on. The president who hates criminals is also our criminal-in-chief. But fortunately (for him), he’s above the law! Court rulings don’t apply to him – not when he’s busy keeping America safe from the boogeymen. To be an exalted leader, you need to keep a serious percentage of the populace in a state of simple-minded fear: The enemy are very, very bad people. They belong to gangs. They eat our pets. But I will protect you.

US War Chief Faces Calls To Resign Over New ‘Signalgate’ Scandal

April 22, 2025 News Desk, The Canary. Educate! Congress, National Security, Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, Resignation, Wars and Militarism

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing criticism and calls for his firing after it was reported by the New York Times (NYT) that he shared sensitive military plans of a March attack on Yemen in a Signal chat group that included his wife, brother, and personal lawyer. According to a source familiar with the matter, speaking with Reuters, the chat included about a dozen people and contained details of the airstrikes' schedule. “The revelations of a second Signal chat raise more questions about Hegseth's use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly sensitive security details,” Reuters wrote.

Who Can Give Security Guarantees To Ukraine?

July 26, 2023 Moon of Alabama. Educate! National Security, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

A main question for Ukraine since it became an independent state was who or what could potentially guarantee its security. In the first years after 1991 the Ukrainian government thought that it could secure itself. It had inherited some Soviet nuclear weapons and it tried to bring those to use. But it failed to circumvent the security locks the Russian engineers had integrated into the nuclear warheads. There was also pressure from the U.S. to get rid of those devices as the Ukraine at that time was prolific in selling its Soviet era weapons to various shady actors around the world. Ukraine, together with Belarus and Kazakhstan, was pressed to enter the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Pentagon Releases National Defense Strategy, Names China As Top Threat

October 28, 2022 Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com. Educate! China, National Security, Pentagon, Wars and Militarism

The Pentagon on Thursday released its 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS), which names China as the “most comprehensive and serious challenge to US national security strategy” even as the US is spending tens of billions on a proxy war with Russia. The NDS was first briefed to Congress back in March, and a short summary was released that said China was the top “threat” facing the US. The strategy names Russia as an “acute threat” but not as serious in the long term as China. “Unlike China, Russia can’t systemically challenge the United States over the long term. But Russian aggression does pose an immediate and sharp threat to our interests and values,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told reporters. The strategy said China and Russia pose a greater threat to the US homeland than any terrorist groups.

Report: FBI Searched The Data Of Americans Millions Of Times In 2021

May 5, 2022 Kevin Reed, WSWS. Educate! FBI, Mass Surveillance, National Security

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) reported on Friday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) searched through the electronic data of Americans 3.4 million times in 2021. The searches were revealed in the ODNI’s “Annual Statistical Transparency Report Regarding the Intelligence Community’s Use of National Security Surveillance Authorities” for calendar year 2021. The data shows that there was nearly a tripling of these unconstitutional searches from 1.3 million in 2020. In typical fashion the ODNI report waives away this intensification of the surveillance state by claiming it was a technical matter related to vital national security matters, the details of which are never explained.

Nine Ways Drawing Down Overseas Bases Will Improve US Security

March 11, 2021 By Andrew J. Bacevich and David Vine, Responsible Statecraft. Educate! National Security, Pentagon Budget, US Foreign Bases, Wars and Militarism

For every State Department embassy, consulate, and mission there are nearly three U.S. military bases overseas. The disparity between the 277 U.S. diplomatic installations and the estimated 800 U.S. military bases abroad symbolizes how dangerously militarized U.S. foreign policy has become. Thankfully, across the political spectrum — and even within the U.S. military — there is growing recognition of the problem. Last month the Biden administration announced the Pentagon will conduct an urgently needed “Global Posture Review” to ensure the deployment of U.S. military forces around the world is, as President Joe Biden said, “appropriately aligned with our foreign policy and national security priorities.” This review offers a historic opportunity to close hundreds of unnecessary military bases abroad and improve national and international security in the process.

Could Biden’s Climate Policy Invite More Militarism?

March 2, 2021 Ashik Siddique, Foreign Policy in Focus. Educate! climate crisis, Joe Biden, National Security, Wars and Militarism

The first month of the Biden presidency was a flurry of climate action, sweeping away the openly denialist intransigence of the Trump administration. After re-entering the Paris Agreement and canceling the Keystone XL pipeline on Day 1, President Biden swiftly rolled out an array of climate-related executive orders calling on all agencies to factor climate into their work. Top among them was an order to “center the climate crisis in U.S. foreign policy and national security.” As part of this order, officials from across more than a dozen intelligence agencies, including the CIA, will produce a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) over the next four months on the national and economic security impacts of climate change, a high level of analysis for topics designated as significant threats to the United States.

2020 Exposed The Myth Of American “Security”

December 22, 2020 Sarah Lazare, In These Times. Educate! COVID-19, Failed State, National Security, Pentagon Budget

If there’s one central lesson to take from 2020, it’s that the country with the most well-funded “security state” in the world is also one of the least secure places on Earth. Facing a deadly pandemic that ravaged the globe, the United States leads the world in overall deaths, and is fourth in deaths per 100,000 people. Our cutting-edge, top-of-the-line, trillion-dollar “national security” apparatus was not only helpless in the face of an actual danger, but repeatedly made that danger far worse by foreclosing on a more humane social response — and unleashing violence on the very people hardest hit. This horrific fact should be a wake up call that challenges the very premises of how we perceive “threats” and danger as we enter the 2020s.

The Real Reason For ‘Grave Concern’ Over The Hong Kong Security Law

July 23, 2020 Ken Moak, Asia Times. Educate! China, Hong Kong, National Security, US Empire

Before and since China passed the national-security law (NSL) for Hong Kong, many in the West have expressed concern if not outrage, accusing Beijing of taking away the Special Administrative Region’s freedom and reneging on the “one country, two systems” architecture. The US was particularly incensed, rescinding Hong Kong’s special trade status and imposing sanctions on Chinese and Hong Kong officials suspected of being complicit in making the NSL a reality. Western media were quick to let the world know 600,000 Hongkongers had expressed opposition to the NSL, but there was hardly a word about the more than 2.9 million and 1.7 million people who signed petitions, respectively, supporting the law and demanding that the US stop meddling in the city’s internal affairs.

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