Jeremy Kuzmarov

Argues that the Democrats' strategy, backed by the corporate media, of demonizing Russia and Putin in order to challenge Trump is not only dangerous, but also, based on the evidence so far, unjustified, misguided, and a major distraction.

Addresses folk singer Woody Guthrie's forgotten dissent against the use of the atomic bomb and Korean War.

Looks critically at the hysteria about Russia and points out how it was the United States that invaded Russia before and not vice versa.

This essay provides a detailed history of the Korean War based on wide reading of the secondary literature and primary research in the National Archives, Truman Library and Woody Guthrie Archives. It delves into political debate about the war, and covers the antiwar movement, addressing overall the question of whether the war was just or unjust.

Critiques the idea of "humanitarian intervention" and pro-war liberal intellectuals like Samantha Power who has served in the Obama administration.

Discusses the use of private military contractors in the War on Terror and how it fits a longstanding US approach to foreign affairs designed to distance the public from wars of questionable morality. Argues that the growth of private military companies today is on a far higher level than ever before and represents a dangerous expansion of the military industrial complex.

Provides a critical overview of American police training and counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and discusses how they are part of a long pattern of violent imperial intervention in Third World countries.

Examines how U.S. policymakers deployed airpower as a central dimension of military strategy after World War II. Pentagon officials claimed that new technologies could ensure “surgical precision,” though time and time again civilians have been targeted, often in futile efforts to intimidate people like the Vietnamese into submission.

Examines the secret history of U.S. police training programs and their centrality to U.S. foreign policy since the colonization of the Philippines at the turn of the 20th century. The operations were staffed by police professionals who sought to export progressive style reforms, through frequently intensified political repression by militarizing foreign police forces and providing them with sophisticated policing technologies.

Documents how politicians and the mass media created the myth that drug abuse had ravaged the U.S. army in Vietnam and exploited public fear to advance the modern War on Drugs.