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The Fallacy of ‘Humanitarian’ War
The Fallacy of ‘Humanitarian’ War The new excuse for U.S. imperial wars is “humanitarian” or “liberal” interventionism with Hillary Clinton and other proponents citing noble motives for destroying foreign societies, as ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller discusses. Rajan Menon’s new book, The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention, launches a timely argument against a dominant argument lying behind […]
Erdogan: Democracy, Freedom Have ‘Absolutely No Value Any Longer’
Erdogan: Democracy, Freedom Have ‘Absolutely No Value Any Longer’ Vows to Turn Military on Political Opposition Concerns about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian leanings have been at the fore in the nation’s political dialogue since he assumed the presidency, and appear to have been well founded, as in a televised speech today he declared […]
‘Thunderstorm Spiral’: Pentagon Trains for Underground War/Disaster In Densely-Populated MegaCities
‘Thunderstorm Spiral’: Pentagon Trains for Underground War/Disaster In Densely-Populated MegaCities As populations grow into cities across the globe, and increasing majority of people will live in urban areas – places which quickly become very desperate and vulnerable during a major crisis. Every prepper knows the dangers of being stuck in a major metropolitan city in […]
Profits of death: disaster capitalists fan flames of war in Syria
Syrian refugee prays after arriving on shores of Greece Profits of death: disaster capitalists fan flames of war in Syria American, European and Russian corporations are the only ones winning from humanitarian disasters of their own making As a tentative ceasefire continues to hold in Syria, with the next round of peace talks having resumed this week, you’d be […]
War on Terror Turns Inward – NSA Surveillance Will Be Used Against American Citizens
War on Terror Turns Inward – NSA Surveillance Will Be Used Against American Citizens In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will […]
Pentagon’s War on the Earth
Pentagon’s War on the Earth We are waging war. We are the Nation of War. We destroy. We kill. Everyone fears us. Fewer and fewer admire us. But our fighting forces—and their attendant industries which manufacture the bombs, bullets, and ballistic delivery devices—also wage a war on the clean air, clean water, and clean soil […]
War Is A Total Lie!
War Is A Total Lie!
Wilhelm Ropke: The Economist Who Stood Up To Hitler
WILHELM RÖPKE: THE ECONOMIST WHO STOOD UP TO HITLER Sometimes there are men of principle who live their values and not merely speak or write about them. People who stand up to political evil at their own risk, and then go on to say and do things that help to remake their country in the […]
Middle Eastern Wars Have ALWAYS Been About Oil
Middle Eastern Wars Have ALWAYS Been About Oil Robert Kennedy Jr. notes: For Americans to really understand what’s going on, it’s important to review some details about this sordid but little-remembered history. During the 1950s, President Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers — CIA Director Allen Dulles and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles — rebuffed Soviet […]
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Disappointments of War in a World of Unintended Consequences
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Disappointments of War in a World of Unintended Consequences War, What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing. And No Kidding, That’s the Literal Truth When It Comes to War, American-Style It may be hard to believe now, but in 1970 the protest song “War,” sung by Edwin Starr, hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. […]
Slouching Down a March of Folly
Slouching Down a March of Folly The threats from Turkey and Saudi Arabia to mount a full-scale invasion of Syria create the potential for a modern-day “march of folly” into World War III by drawing NATO and the U.S. into a direct military confrontation with Russia and Iran, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains. […]
What Could Go Wrong? Saudis Want To Give Surface-To-Air Missiles To Syrian Rebels
What Could Go Wrong? Saudis Want To Give Surface-To-Air Missiles To Syrian Rebels When the Russians started flying from Latakia on September 30 it put the Syrian opposition in a decisively precarious situation. Whereas the Syrian air force was largely out of date and relied on replacement parts and continual maintenance to remain viable, Moscow […]
World War 3 Could Very Easily Turn Into The Very First Nuclear War In The Middle East
World War 3 Could Very Easily Turn Into The Very First Nuclear War In The Middle East Saudi Arabia already has nukes, Iran probably does, and the Russians are one of the two great nuclear powers on the entire planet. So if Saudi Arabia, Turkey and their Sunni allies do decide to conduct a full-blown ground […]
The New Global Financial Cold War
The New Global Financial Cold War The Guns and Butter Interview Suppose a country owes money to another nation’s government or official agency. How can creditors collect, unless there’s an international court and an enforcement system? The IMF and the World Bank were part of that enforcement system and now they’re saying: ‘We’re not going […]
