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American Mass Media and Punditry Remain a Dishonest, Militaristic Embarrassment
American Mass Media and Punditry Remain a Dishonest, Militaristic Embarrassment When it comes to U.S. presidents, experience has taught me to always assume the worst. Irrespective of what the winning candidate said on the campaign trail, a few things things tend to happen once they’re sworn into office. To name a few, we almost always […]
How America’s Wars Cut Down American Liberty
How America’s Wars Cut Down American Liberty If we forswore military intervention in other countries, we could still affect the world in a positive way through free trade. Professor Tucker argues in his Liberty Forum essay that a grand strategy, at least one that is dreamed of by experts, “is not a possibility for the United States,” […]
Foundation of Anti-Imperialism
Foundation of Anti-Imperialism The United States has had a policy of imperialism beginning after the Civil War. The US way of war, developed against Indigenous peoples, spread worldwide as the US sought to extend its power through military force, economic dominance and diplomatic hegemony. Imperialism is driven by what Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. identified at the end […]
Will Bilderberg still be relevant as the future of war is transformed?
Will Bilderberg still be relevant as the future of war is transformed? This year’s summit is all about war – but what they all want to conquer is artificial intelligence A protester’s sign saying ‘Stop The New World Order’ near the venue of the 2016 Bilderberg conference in Dresden, Germany. Photograph: Chad Buchanan/Getty Images This […]
Putin quotes Einstein: ‘WW3 would be the end of civilization’ (Video)
Putin quotes Einstein: ‘WW3 would be the end of civilization’ (Video) Putin: WWIII may be end of civilization, and that should restrain conflicts Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual televised question-and-answer session, with over two million questions submitted from Russian citizens. This year’s event is Putin’s 16th Q&A. One question Putin received referenced the […]
Europe’s Nationalism and Trump’s Trade Policies Look Like WWI Prelude
Europe’s Nationalism and Trump’s Trade Policies Look Like WWI Prelude In conversations with friends, one thought the current political scene was like the prelude to WWII. Another said WWI. Tuesday evening I struck up a conversation with “Max”, a friend that I frequently see at a Tuesday karaoke bar. Max is not a reader of […]
NATO Sabre Strike Exercise: Scaring Russia with Multiple War Games of Unparalleled Scale
NATO Sabre Strike Exercise: Scaring Russia with Multiple War Games of Unparalleled Scale This year, NATO has already organized about 100 exercises, 20 percent more compared to the same period in 2017. Saber Strike-2018, a large-scale US-led exercise involving 18,000 soldiers from 19 NATO members and partner nations, kicked off on June 3 to last […]
US Challenges Russia to Nuclear War
US Challenges Russia to Nuclear War Now that the United States (with the cooperation of its NATO partners) has turned the former Soviet Union’s states other than Russia into NATO allies, and has likewise turned the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact allies into America’s own military allies in NATO, the United States is finally turning the screws […]
US Debating Whether To Expand Military Presence In Yemen
US Debating Whether To Expand Military Presence In Yemen As if the US hasn’t already done enough to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis raging in Yemen, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the Trump Administration is considering a request by the United Arab Emirates for “direct US support” as a coalition of Sunni majority nations […]
BREAKING: The ENTIRE Swedish Home Guard Was Just Mobilized
BREAKING: The ENTIRE Swedish Home Guard Was Just Mobilized A few weeks back, the government of Sweden sent out a booklet to every household in the country urging citizens to prepare for war or other crises. A few months back, they told citizens that they should be prepared to last for at least a week without […]
The American Way of War: Evolution Stops Here
The American Way of War: Evolution Stops Here America does what it wants. This is obvious, except it’s also monstrously unnerving. Let’s at least add some quote marks: “America” does what it wants — this secretly defined, self-obsessed, unelected entity that purports to be the United States of America, all 325 million of us, but […]
Decades of Unconstitutional Wars
Decades of Unconstitutional Wars Despite United States Congress members insisting that Congress debate and vote on US military actions overseas, congressional leadership has chosen inaction, allowing military actions unilaterally pursued by the executive branch to continue unrestrained. And, when, this year, consideration has begun to move forward on an authorization for use of military force […]
Weather Impacted Wars & Migrations in Pre-Recorded History
Weather Impacted Wars & Migrations in Pre-Recorded History Archaeologists working in the wetlands of Denmark have uncovered 2,000-year-old human remains are revealing that the Germanic “barbarians” were engaging in warfare in northern Europe against other barbarian tribes which had nothing to do with Rome. The research, which was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of […]
Bolton Trying to Convince Trump to Topple Iran
Bolton Trying to Convince Trump to Topple Iran Now that the Trump administration has derailed the Iran nuclear deal, the old issue of regime change in Iran is back again. National Security Advisor John Bolton is obviously the chief regime-change advocate in the administration, and there is every reason to believe he has begun to […]
