Month: May 2018

The Coming Collapse

Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is a product…

An Empire of Nothing at All?

Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — As I was putting the finishing touches on my new book, the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute published an estimate of the taxpayer dollars that will have gone into America’s war on…

Who’s Funding The White Helmets?

Submitted by:  ButtCracker   — As the U.S. moves closer toward all out war in Syria, a lot of what our government seems to base its intelligence on, especially claims of chemical weapon use by they Syrian government, is from an…