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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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…
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…
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…
This Outlaw Power
Submitted by: ButtCracker — On June 4th the Chinese government issued a travel alert for Chinese tourists thinking of visiting the United States, a day after it issued a similar advisory to Chinese students thinking of studying in the US…
War Against Venezuela Is War Against Us All
Submitted by: ButtCracker — The American war on Venezuela continues to escalate with the sabotage of its electricity grid, the most serious action of all so far, which was not only an act of terrorism against the entire civilian population…
I Pledge Allegiance to the United States of Sociopathy
Submitted by: ButtCracker — In Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller, Shadow of a Doubt, spunky, recent high school grad Teresa Wright discovers her beloved uncle is a serial killer. Wright’s subsequent efforts to protect herself and others from psychopathic Joseph Cotten…
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…
US media love war more than they hate Trump & egg him on to strike Syria
Submitted by: ButtCracker — US media outlets are recklessly promoting war with help from neocons, including Arab American right-wingers who do not represent the views of the region they are demanding Trump bomb. American media outlets can’t help themselves. They…
Trump’s Rush to Judgment on Syria Chemical Attack
Submitted by: ButtCracker — On Sunday, President Trump announced his intention to make those responsible for an alleged chemical weapons attack on Douma, including the Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian allies, pay a “big price” for their continued disregard for…
Why The Documentary Must Not Be Allowed To Die
Submitted by: ButtCracker — I first understood the power of the documentary during the editing of my first film, The Quiet Mutiny. In the commentary, I make reference to a chicken, which my crew and I encountered while on patrol…
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…
Famine and Cholera Stalk Yemen
No country on earth is more devastated by US imperial viciousness – complicit with Saudi Arabia doing its dirty work. Yemenis are threatened by endless war, famine, cholera, and other horrendous issues, the lives of millions endangered. According to the…
This Is The Real Story Behind The Crisis Unfolding In Qatar
Only Shakespeare’s plays could come close to describing such treachery – the comedies, that is The Qatar crisis proves two things: the continued infantilisation of the Arab states, and the total collapse of the Sunni Muslim unity supposedly created by Donald Trump’s…
Palestine’s West Bank: Fifty Years of Immoral Occupation
Today, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank has reached the milestone of 50 years that will be recalled in shame. Fifty years that have dehumanized both the occupier and the occupied; years of failing to muster the courage to…