
Kelsey Atherton
Founder and Writer at Wars of Future Past
Chief Editor at Center for International Policy
War, robots, & bad futures, but imagining better. EIC @CIPolicyJournal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymaybe, father of 2.
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1 week ago |
msnbc.com | Kelsey Atherton
Last week, President Donald Trump boasted of the inclusion of the “Golden Dome” missile defense program in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which the House narrowly passed Thursday. The funding, initially set at a staggering $175 billion, is for a long-standing Republican fantasy: total U.S. impunity to attacks from other nations.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Kelsey Atherton
11 hours agoWhat is Trump’s 'Golden Dome'? President Trump is pushing for a “Golden Dome” missile defense system for the United States. The “Golden Dome” plans are modeled after Israel’s “Iron Dome.” @ KatyTur explains why the rollout of this proposed force field may not be as straightforward as it seems.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Kelsey Atherton
Last week, President Donald Trump boasted of the inclusion of the “Golden Dome” missile defense program in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which the House narrowly passed Thursday. The funding, initially set at a staggering $175 billion, is for a long-standing Republican fantasy: total U.S. impunity to attacks from other nations.
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Nov 11, 2024 |
fingers.email | Kelsey Atherton
Editor’s note: This special joint post from Fingers x Wars of Future Past was originally published Veterans Day 2023, but I think it still holds up.—Dave. If Grunt Style and Black Rifle Coffee Co. opened a distillery, what would it make? Unfortunately, we don’t have to speculate, because this Veterans Day, the militarization of brown liquor is fully upon us. This edition of Fingers is a collaboration with , a longtime military-technology journalist and publisher of the independent newsletter .
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Sep 4, 2024 |
fingers.email | Dave Infante |Kelsey Atherton
Editor’s note: Apropos of Donald Trump’s grim use of American soldiers’ gravesites as props for a campaign ad late last month, and this excellent column by Jonathan M.
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