Author: Gary Wilson

Israel is a fortress of empire — a U.S.-armed garrison planted in the heart of West Asia to protect capital’s most prized assets: oil, trade routes, and regional dominance. Behind the rhetoric of democracy and […]

Sixteen workers died in an explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems in rural Tennessee.  AES supplies explosives to the U.S. military and major contractors. Demand for munitions is rising across the Pentagon’s supply chain.  Routine OSHA […]

Oct. 10 — On Friday morning, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought announced what federal workers had been dreading: “The RIFs have begun.” With that social media post, the Trump administration launched mass […]

The two factories that tell the story Walk through Fort Worth, Texas, and you’ll see the story of a declining empire written in steel and concrete. At one end of town stands a vast Lockheed […]

The ‘drug war’ is a war for control of Venezuela’s oil Donald Trump has opened a war in the Caribbean — without Congress, without evidence, and without limits. What was once called “drug interdiction” has […]

We are told, endlessly, that we live in the age of the entrepreneur. You know the story: a lone genius tinkering in a garage, pulling miracles out of solder and silicon, eventually conquering the world […]

President Donald Trump’s appearance before hundreds of generals and admirals at Quantico was not a routine address. It was a declaration of war — not on foreign rivals, but on the people in the U.S.  […]