Zeeshan Aleem

1 week ago | msnbc.com | Zeeshan Aleem

The central value proposition of “Warfare,” the new Iraq war film co-written and co-directed by ex-Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland, is realism. On a technical level, it hits the mark. As a story about the U.S. war in Iraq, it obscures and sanitizes the conflict it seeks to depict. “Warfare” is based on a real mission that Mendoza himself participated in, and is constructed from his memories and those of other participants’.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Zeeshan Aleem

The central value proposition of “Warfare,” the new Iraq war film co-written and co-directed by ex-Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland, is realism. On a technical level, it hits the mark. As a story about the U.S. war in Iraq, it obscures and sanitizes the conflict it seeks to depict. “Warfare” is based on a real mission that Mendoza himself participated in, and is constructed from his memories and those of other participants’.

2 weeks ago | msnbc.com | Zeeshan Aleem

Those of us who have memories longer than a goldfish know that President Donald Trump’s promise of a record-breaking $1 trillion defense budget for next year undercuts his promise to run a leaner federal government. It’s also an odd promise from “the ultimate peace president” who seemingly covets a Nobel Prize. It appears that the administration deploys “efficiency” and “peace” as diversionary rhetoric to obscure our president’s fixation on power and militarism.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Zeeshan Aleem

OpinionZeeshan AleemThu, April 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM UTC3 min readThose of us who have memories longer than a goldfish know that President Donald Trump’s promise of a record-breaking $1 trillion defense budget for next year undercuts his promise to run a leaner federal government. It’s also an odd promise from “the ultimate peace president” who seemingly covets a Nobel Prize.

2 weeks ago | msnbc.com | Zeeshan Aleem

Before President Donald Trump’s expanded tariffs went into effect on Wednesday, hedge fund billionaire and MAGA fan Bill Ackman warned over the weekend on X that the country was “heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter.” As he contemplated the pain ahead, he sounded mournful, perhaps even regretful: “This is not what we voted for.”Many other conservative commentators and investors have echoed Ackman’s sentiment as Trump’s radical tariff plans have rocked global markets.