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oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: What Have We Learned From 24 Years of War?
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: What Have We Learned From 24 Years of War?. The responsibility for starting and ending wars, the way wars are fought and the losses we suffer all rest with our elected civilian leadership. What have we learned from 24 years of war? Since the First Gulf War in early 1991, the U.S. has […]
Saxobank CIO Warns We’re About To See A Full-Scale Currency War | Zero Hedge
Saxobank CIO Warns We’re About To See A Full-Scale Currency War | Zero Hedge. There’s increasing risk we’ll soon see a “significant paradigm shift” from China in its attitude to the strength of its currency, warns Saxobank CIO and Chief Economist Steen Jakobsen. He says we’re about to see a full-scale currency war, notably between […]
Are the Russians Coming? | Erico Matias Tavares | LinkedIn
Are the Russians Coming? | Erico Matias Tavares | LinkedIn. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that a serious confrontation with the West is coming. In a recent speech at the Valdai conference in Sochi, laced with geopolitical and historical references, he stated that “changes in the world order – and what we are seeing today […]
Ukraine Begins “Large-Scale” Offensive In Donetsk; “War Has Resumed” Rebel Leader Warns; Russian Stocks, Currency Crashing | Zero Hedge
Ukraine Begins “Large-Scale” Offensive In Donetsk; “War Has Resumed” Rebel Leader Warns; Russian Stocks, Currency Crashing | Zero Hedge. Ebola is solved. Oil price drops are “unequivocally good news”. The US election is positive. Draghi promised to do whatever it takes again. And Ukraine is in ceasefire.So why is it that Donetsk’s Deputy Prime Minister Andriy […]
Russia Conducts Full “Nuclear Triad” Drill, Launches Topol-M ICBM | Zero Hedge
Russia Conducts Full “Nuclear Triad” Drill, Launches Topol-M ICBM | Zero Hedge. While east Ukraine, aka the Donetsk Republic, was voting over the weekend in what the west pre-emptively classified as another sham vote as its outcome would merely push east Ukraine even closer to the Kremlin, Russia was busy conducting its most comprehensive Nuclear […]
The Hazards of Going to War for Profit – Our World
The Hazards of Going to War for Profit – Our World. For every US soldier in Iraq, there was roughly one private contractor. In Afghanistan, the ratio was even higher, peaking at 1.6 US-employed contractors per soldier. The total number of Department of Defense contractors reached approximately 163,000 in Iraq and 117,000 in Afghanistan. The […]
War Culture Washington’s Blog
War Culture Washington’s Blog. According to a book by George Williston called This Tribe of Mine: A Story of Anglo Saxon Viking Culture in America, the United States wages eternal war because of its cultural roots in the Germanic tribes that invaded, conquered, ethnically cleansed, or — if you prefer — liberated England before moving on to the slaughter […]
The US Can’t Outsource Warfighting | The Diplomat
The US Can’t Outsource Warfighting | The Diplomat. America has hung out a shingle: HELP WANTED. Offshore powers — powers beset by few if any overland threats — habitually do. But good help doesn’t come cheap, in world politics as in private industry. One hopes Washington gets this as it tries to accomplish big things […]
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Will the U.S. Go to “War” Against Ebola? | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Will the U.S. Go to “War” Against Ebola? | TomDispatch. Sometimes, if you want to catch the essence of a moment, however, grim, you need to turn tohumor. Recently, the New Yorker’s resident satirist Andy Borowitz produced one of his patented fake news stories that began this way: “The president of CNN Worldwide, Jeff Zucker, […]
The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : National Service is Anti-Liberty and Un-American
The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : National Service is Anti-Liberty and Un-American. Former Clinton Administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently called on the government to force young people to spend two years either “serving” in the military or performing some other type of government-directed “community service.” Neoconservative Senator John McCain has introduced […]
Shadow Facts About Shadow Government Washington’s Blog
Shadow Facts About Shadow Government Washington’s Blog. Tom Engelhardt keeps churning out great books by collecting his posts from TomDispatch.com. His latest book, Shadow Government, is essential reading. Of the ten essays included, eight are on basically the same topic, resulting in some repetition and even some contradiction. But when things that need repeating are repeated this […]
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Seven Bad Endings to the New War in the Middle East | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Seven Bad Endings to the New War in the Middle East | TomDispatch. It was May 23, 2012, and President Obama was giving a graduation speech at the Air Force Academy when he told the assembled cadets that they should “never bet against the United States of America… [because] the United States has […]
