The US has repeatedly squandered opportunities to make the world less vulnerable to nuclear destruction.

The article has a certain one-sidedness, as is often found in articles whose main point is to criticize the US. For instance, it tries to suggest that the US was in the wrong in planning for war with Japan in 1941 (though nothing forced Japan to start that war). Japan in 1941 was in the process of conquering China by means of a stream of atrocities; that's why the US stopped selling Japan the materials Japan needed in order to continue that conquest.

Amnesty International says there is mounting evidence of intentional Israeli attacks on medical facilities and workers in Gaza.

ISIS gets its funding from US "allies": Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait.

This seems to have been going on for longer than the article says: it seems that some of them were behind the start of the armed uprising in Syria, back when Syrians where still holding nonviolent protests for democracy.

Since Colorado legalized marijuana, the rate of car accidents has continued its general downward trend.

US casinos get most of their money from slot machines made so addictive and "smooth" that people can get lost in them for hours or days.

I have sometimes wanted to get lost in playing a machine. Rather than going to a casino, I played a game on a computer — that cost me nothing. Free software games are available for this.

The idea of raising money for a state by legalizing casinos and taxing them made some rational sense for the first few states to do it. People from other states came there and spent money. Now that most US states have legalized casinos, this effect has disappeared; the result is that people spend money on casinos instead of some other business that also pays taxes.

It's amazing how shortsighted politicians can be when that enables a business to make money.