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War Deaths, and Taxes
War Deaths, and Taxes Are the federal taxes coming out of your wages and due this week killing you? Sadly what’s rhetorical for US tax payers is gravely literal for people of eight countries currently on the shooting end of the US budget. This year at least 47% of federal income taxes goes to the […]
Syriasly
Syriasly “Peace with Honor” was President Nixon’s anodyne phrase for futzing around as long as possible in Vietnam to conceal the reality that the US military was getting its ass kicked by what we had initially thought was a 98-pound weakling of a Third World country. That was a half-century ago and I remember it […]
Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
Nothing Exceeds Like Excess The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. —Ernest Hemingway Military spending is the second largest item in the US federal budget after […]
How the Military Controls America
How the Military Controls America Unlike corporations that sell to consumers, Lockheed Martin and the other top contractors to the US Government are highly if not totally dependent upon sales to governments, for their profits, especially sales to their own government, which they control — they control their home market, which is the US Government, and they […]
What Results When U.S. Invades a Country
What Results When U.S. Invades a Country The U.S. Government certainly leads the world in invasions and coups. In recent years, it has invaded and occupied — either by military assault or by coup, but in either case followed by installing (or trying to install) a new regime there — a number of countries, especially […]
U.S. Government Is Boosting Military Spending to Record Levels
U.S. Government Is Boosting Military Spending to Record Levels Photo by DVIDSHUB | CC BY 2.0 Early this February, the Republican-controlled Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed new federal budget legislation that increased U.S. military spending by $165 billion over the next two years. Remarkably, though, a Gallup public opinion poll, conducted only days before, found that […]
Trump Seeks Congressional Funding for 60,000-Man Army to Overthrow Assad
Trump Seeks Congressional Funding for 60,000-Man Army to Overthrow Assad ISIS, or ISIL, or Islamic State, has been almost completely defeated in Syria, but the U.S. Department of Defense is requesting an increase instead of a decrease in funding to support “Vetted Syrian Opposition,” or fighters in Syria against Syria’s Government, and it refers to […]
How China Could Freeze the US Military
How China Could Freeze the US Military Last April, President Trump launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Syria. He was responding to an alleged chemical weapons attack by Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian government. It was Trump’s most dramatic military move since he became president. It was also the United States’ first deliberate attack on the Syrian […]
America’s National Defense Is Really Offense
America’s National Defense Is Really Offense On Friday, the Pentagon released an unclassified summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy report. On the same day, Secretary of Defense James Mattis delivered prepared remarks relating to the document. Reading the summary is illuminating, to say the least, and somewhat disturbing, as it focuses very little on actual […]
Trump Ups Defense Budget By 13% – “Can’t Have World’s Best Military On An Obama Budget”
Trump Ups Defense Budget By 13% – “Can’t Have World’s Best Military On An Obama Budget” With Washington having seemingly turned its turret away from ‘terror’ and back to “revisionist, authoritarian” regimes like ‘Russia and China’, the Military-Industrial Complex is ‘gonna need a bigger budget’ – a 13% bigger $716 billion one by 2019. US […]
The U.S. Foreign Policy Elite Still Wants the Middle East for Its Oil and Its Strategic Location
The U.S. Foreign Policy Elite Still Wants the Middle East for Its Oil and Its Strategic Location In recent testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, four former U.S. diplomats provided remarkably candid commentary on recent U.S. involvement in the Middle East, revealing a number of the most closely guarded secrets of U.S. diplomacy. The four former […]
Big Guns, Better Chow, and More US-NATO Aggression
Big Guns, Better Chow, and More US-NATO Aggression A headline in the US military magazine Stars and Stripes last September was eye-catching. It told readers that there were “Big guns, better chow for US soldiers on Russia deterrence mission” in Lithuania. Apparently the guns and chow were provided for the “500 173rd Airborne Brigade soldiers that swooped into the […]
“We Don’t Consider You a Legitimate Journalist”–How I Got Blacklisted by the Pentagon’s Africa Command
Photo: Natalie Jidovanu “WE DON’T CONSIDER YOU A LEGITIMATE JOURNALIST” — HOW I GOT BLACKLISTED BY THE PENTAGON’S AFRICA COMMAND CONVERSATIONS WITH MILITARY spokespeople can be curt, even confrontational, but they are not supposed to go this way. “Nick, we’re not going to respond to any of your questions” Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Falvo, the head […]
Another Step Toward Armageddon
Another Step Toward Armageddon The US military/security complex has taken another step toward Armageddon. The Pentagon has prepared a nuclear posture review (NPR) that gives the OK to development of smaller “useable” nuclear weapons and permits their use in response to a non-nuclear attack. As Reagan and Gorbachev understood, but the warmongers who have taken […]
US Military Rushes To Study Blockchain As ‘Hybrid Wars’ Loom
US Military Rushes To Study Blockchain As ‘Hybrid Wars’ Loom President Trump signed into law the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act on Tuesday, a $700 billion defense policy bill that mandatesfor a “briefing on cyber applications of blockchain technology.” Language within the bill is part of a much wider effort to modernize the United States military, before decades […]
