Endless War is a Disastrous (But Profitable) Enterprise By Lawrence Wilkerson Col, USA (Ret) January 30, 2020 “The collapse of the Libyan state has had region-wide repercussions, with flows of people and weapons destabilizing other countries throughout North Africa.” This…
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Evangelicals Who Pray For War
Evangelicals Who Pray for War With Iran Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo, who urged Trump to kill Qassem Soleimani, are ardent proponents of Christian Zionism. By Sarah Posner January 16, 2020 Last Friday, a day after Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem…
Truth & Justice Just Might Have A Chance Next Year
Assange Gives Evidence In Spanish Case Against Security Contractor By Thomas Scripps December 23, 2019 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was brought from Belmarsh Prison yesterday to appear in person at Westminster Magistrates Court and provide video-link witness testimony in the…
Orwell’s 1984 Revisited
George Orwell’s ‘1984’ revisited: What Oceania and Israel have in common For George Orwell, the appalling picture of the future starkly depicted in ‘1984’ was not some imaginative exercise. ‘Don’t let it happen. It depends on you,’ he warned By…
Impeach The Government—-Not Just Trump
Impeach the Government: Rogue Agencies Have Been Abusing Their Powers for Decades By John W. Whitehead “When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour —…
Endless War
America’s Endless Wars: From A West Pointer Fri, 11/08/2019 – 21:45 Authored by US Army Major Danny Sjursen (ret.) Patches, pins, medals, and badges are the visible signs of an exclusive military culture, a silent language by which soldiers and officers…
U.S. Underwrites Israel While Americans Suffer
US underwrites Israel’s economy, while Americans suffer While sending tens of billions in aid to Israel, the US watches its own citizens struggle to access healthcare and education By Morgan Strong November 04, 2019 Israel is around the same size…
Dying Empires And The Enemy Within
Dying Empires And The Enemy Within By Chris Hedges November 04, 2019 Our democracy is not in peril—we do not live in a democracy. The image of our democracy is in peril. The deep state—the generals, bankers, corporatists, lobbyists, intelligence chiefs, government bureaucrats…
Killing Me Softly With Militarism: The Decay Of Democracy In America
Killing Me Softly With Militarism: The Decay Of Democracy In America By William J. Astore October 31, 2019 When Americans think of militarism, they may imagine jackbooted soldiers goose-stepping through the streets as flag-waving crowds exult; or, like our president, they may…
The Age Of Radical Evil
The Age of Radical Evil By Chris Hedges October 16, 2019 Immanuel Kant coined the term “radical evil.” It was the privileging of one’s own interest over that of others, effectively reducing those around you to objects to be manipulated and…
Our Invisible Government
Our Invisible Government By Chris Hedges September 17, 2019 There are two forms of government in the United States. There is the visible government—the White House, Congress, the courts, state legislatures and governorships—and the invisible government, or deep state, where…
US Foreign Policy Is A War On Disobedience
By Caitlin Johnstone In an excellent new essay titled “We’re Not the Good Guys — Why Is American Aggression Missing in Action?“, Tom Engelhardt criticizes the way western media outlets consistently describe the behavior of disobedient nations like Iran as…
A Badge of Shame: The Government’s War on America’s Military Veterans
Submitted by: ButtCracker — “For soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, coming home is more lethal than being in combat.” ― Brené Brown, research professor at the University of Houston Not all heroes wear the uniform of war. In the…
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…
Congress Keeps Funding a War Machine That the Public Should Divest From
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Both parties line their pockets with profits from the arms trade. In recent budget negotiations, Senate Democrats agreed to a boost in military spending that exceeded the cap for fiscal 2018 by $70 billion, bringing the…
Donald Trump’s First Year Sets Record for U.S. Special Ops
Submitted by: ButtCracker — “We don’t know exactly where we’re at in the world, militarily, and what we’re doing,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in October. That was in the wake of the…
How Long, America?
Submitted by ButtCracker — Empires die. Some abruptly, by cataclysmic defeat and destruction; most in stages, over years, decades. Our own meltdown–early in the fantasized “New American Century”–will not be exceptional… unlike our arrogance. When human injury results in coma,…
Exploring the Shadows of America’s Security State
Or How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Washington pursued its elusive enemies across the landscapes of Asia and Africa, thanks in part to a massive expansion of its intelligence infrastructure,…
America’s Militarized Police
Submitted by: ButtCracker — The horrific execution by police of an Australian woman in her pajamas that took place last week in Minneapolis has again produced a torrent of criticism over killings initiated by law enforcement in situations in which…
Truth of Ukraine War Revealed: Watchdog Media Releases Timeline Video of Ukrainian War From Euromaidan to MH-17
On the three year commemoration of the tragic shootdown of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-17, Brisbane, Australia based Watchdog Media has released the most thorough and accurate chronological portrayal of events occurring between the start of Ukraine’s Euromaidan in November 2013…