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Recipe Concocted for Perpetual War Is a Bitter One
Recipe Concocted for Perpetual War Is a Bitter One Perpetual war is leading to a host of societal ills, yet debates on war and peace are almost entirely absent from public discourse, Robert Wing and Coleen Rowley observe. U.S. Marines patrol street in Shah Karez in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff […]
‘Duck and Cover’ Drills Exacerbate Fears of N. Korea War
‘Duck and Cover’ Drills Exacerbate Fears of N. Korea War A recent false alarm in Hawaii had citizens in a state of panic over an impending nuclear attack, which, as Ann Wright speculates, may have been the point. A “duck and cover” school drill from the 1950s. Are you ready for nuclear attack warning sirens […]
It Sure Sounds Like the US Is Actually Going to Bomb North Korea
It Sure Sounds Like the US Is Actually Going to Bomb North Korea (ANTIMEDIA) — During his first State of the Union address on Tuesday, Donald Trump pledged the United States would continue its “campaign of maximum pressure” against North Korea. Meanwhile, the Washington Post ran an opinion piece written by the man who was, until recently, set to become the U.S. ambassador to South Korea. Victor Cha, […]
Countdown to Doomsday: Daniel Ellsberg and the Nuclear Papers
Countdown to Doomsday: Daniel Ellsberg and the Nuclear Papers Photo by August Muench | CC BY 2.0 Just as the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the Doomsday Clock closer than it has ever been to our species extinction point reports show that the U.S. warfare state is moving its latest high-tech rendition of tactical […]
Will Washington’s Chess Game in Syria Lead to War With NATO Ally Turkey?
Will Washington’s Chess Game in Syria Lead to War With NATO Ally Turkey? (MPN) — It’s not clear if the United States knows what it is doing in Syria anymore. Having successfully toppled the Libyan government in 2011, former President Barack Obama subsequently spent a good three years attempting to bring about the fall of the Syrian government, under […]
UK’s Secret Cold War Plan For Middle East Oil Fields
UK’s Secret Cold War Plan For Middle East Oil Fields The 1950s were a turbulent time on both sides of the Iron Curtain. With the Second World War over and the star role played by crude oil in its outcome, British and U.S. intelligence agencies wasted no time working out scenarios should the Soviets invade […]
Too Many Wars. Too Many Enemies
Too Many Wars. Too Many Enemies If Turkey is not bluffing, U.S. troops in Manbij, Syria, could be under fire by week’s end, and NATO engulfed in the worst crisis in its history. Turkish President Erdogan said Friday his troops will cleanse Manbij of Kurdish fighters, alongside whom U.S. troops are embedded. Erdogan’s foreign minister […]
This Was Mises’s Main Case for Peace
This Was Mises’s Main Case for Peace War only destroys. Peace, on the other hand, creates. War is absolutely devastating. There is no dancing around that fact. Not only is it responsible for the loss of countless human lives, it also leaves an immeasurable amount of physical and emotional destruction in its wake. The market […]
Two Minutes to Doomsday
Two Minutes to Doomsday Photo by Toby Scott | CC BY 2.0 Not since 1953, when the U.S. and the Soviets exploded thermonuclear bombs, has the world been such a powder keg! Only recently, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock forward 30 seconds. It now registers two minutes to midnight. Verily, […]
US, Turkish Troops Headed For Military Showdown In Syria
US, Turkish Troops Headed For Military Showdown In Syria Two days after we reported that Turkey valiantly demanded that US forces vacate military bases in the Syrian district of Manbij, when Turkey’s foreign minister Melet Cavusoglu also said that Ankara is calling upon the US to cease any and all support to Syrian Kurdish forces […]
The Peace Fallacy
The Peace Fallacy Furthermore, we have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of the its population. . . . In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to […]
The Doomsday Weapon
The Doomsday Weapon While we agonize over such life and death questions as clumsy men groping women and the crucial need for gender and racial ‘inclusion,’ let me spare a few seconds thought to something really important and scary: Russia’s doomsday nuclear torpedo. Code-named by NATO ‘Kanyon,’ it’s reportedly something new and terrifying, a ‘third strike’ […]
UK Defense Secretary: “Russia Is Ready To Kill Us By The Thousands”
UK Defense Secretary: “Russia Is Ready To Kill Us By The Thousands” Brits woke up to read the following brazenly fearmongering headline in their daily paper today: “‘Russia is ready to kill us by the thousands’: Defence Secretary warns that Moscow could cause mass casualties by crippling crucial energy supplies.” Recently installed in office, UK […]
According to the Doomsday Clock, the End Is Near
According to the Doomsday Clock, the End Is Near The hypothetical “Doomsday Clock” is closer to midnight – the hour of doom – than it has been since 1953, the year that the US and the USSR both tested hydrogen bombs at the beginning of the global nuclear arms race. The Bulletin of the Atomic […]
It’s Official! The Risk Of Nuclear Annihilation Is At An All-Time High
It’s Official! The Risk Of Nuclear Annihilation Is At An All-Time High Don’t Panic. It’s only the end of the world… On Thursday, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists raised the likelihood of an apocalyptic nuclear catastrophe to its highest level in the clock’s 70+-year history, the Washington Post reported. The clock was moved from two-and-a-half […]
