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Pentagon Brands ‘Belligerent’ Journalists As Legitimate “Enemy Combatant” Targets
Pentagon Brands ‘Belligerent’ Journalists As Legitimate “Enemy Combatant” Targets The Pentagon has released an 1,176-page book of instructions on the “The Law Of War” detailing acceptable ways of killing the enemy. The manual also states that journalists can be labeled “unprivileged belligerents,” an obscure term that replaces the Bush era “unlawful enemy combatant.” As The Washington Times reports, an […]
The War Party’s Foolish Confrontation With Russia Is Heading Into A Dangerous Dead End
The War Party’s Foolish Confrontation With Russia Is Heading Into A Dangerous Dead End “U.S. Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in East Europe: A Message to Russia,” ran the headline in The New York Times. “In a significant move to deter possible Russian aggression in Europe, the Pentagon is poised to store battle tanks, infantry fighting […]
US criminal economics: TPP secret treaty = ‘constitutional republic,’ debt = ‘money’, 500 million+ dead from poverty = ‘necessary.’ Had enough to demand arrests?
US criminal economics: TPP secret treaty = ‘constitutional republic,’ debt = ‘money’, 500 million+ dead from poverty = ‘necessary.’ Had enough to demand arrests? hat tip: Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Blog “Psychopaths are unable to form emotional attachments or feel real empathy with others, although they often have disarming or even charming personalities. Psychopaths are very manipulative […]
Geopolitics Will Trump Economics in Greece
Geopolitics Will Trump Economics in Greece Based on the continued failure of the negotiating parties to make any substantive progress in the talks over Greek debt payments, the financial world is tied up in knots over a possible Greek exit from the European Union. The uncertainty has manifested in both high and low finance, with […]
Public Didn’t See Last Two World Wars Coming Either
Public Didn’t See Last Two World Wars Coming Either Books about how World War I started, and to a lesser degree how World War II started, have tended in recent years to explain that these wars didn’t actually come as a surprise, because top government officials saw them coming for years. But these revised histories […]
Pathetic Zombie Wars
Pathetic Zombie Wars Our New Friend, al-Qaeda The wars go on! We’re not against them. We might as well be against stomach gas – it will happen whether we like it or not. Real wars, as we’ve been exploring recently, are glorious and moronic. But zombie wars are just sordid are pathetic. A new item in the Wall […]
China’s Island Building Reveals the True Power in Asia
China’s Island Building Reveals the True Power in Asia China’s land reclamation moves in the South China Sea may be cause for reproach, but no one will do a thing about Beijing’s island-building program beyond the huff and puff of objection. While the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has been […]
NATO Conducts Rehearsal For Ukraine Siege: Mapping All NATO Drills Near Russia Since 2014
NATO Conducts Rehearsal For Ukraine Siege: Mapping All NATO Drills Near Russia Since 2014 In the fictional country of Botnia, “Birdman”, the rebel leader, lives in a ramshackle shed in the woods while his separatist troops fight to destabilize a NATO-friendly country from the also fictional town of Alpha, a make-believe rebel stronghold. Fortunately for […]
IMF Violates IMF Rules, to Continue Ukraine Bailouts
IMF Violates IMF Rules, to Continue Ukraine Bailouts The IMF, whose bailout operations are absorbed by the taxpayers in the member countries whenever a particular bailed-out nation defaults, announced on Friday, June 19th, that it will “continue to support Ukraine through its Lending-into-Arrears Policy even in the event that a negotiated agreement with creditors in line with […]
The Glorious Imbecility of War
The Glorious Imbecility of War Napoleon Returns Today, on the eve of the bicentennial of the Battle of Waterloo, we do not celebrate war. Only a fool would celebrate something so horrible. But we pay our respects to the glorious imbecility of it. War may be dreadful, little more than a racket in many ways, […]
You’ve Been Warned – Calls for Mandatory “National Service” for Americans Aged 18-28 Has Begun
You’ve Been Warned – Calls for Mandatory “National Service” for Americans Aged 18-28 Has Begun CHAPTER ONE War is a Racket WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one […]
An Affirming Flame
An Affirming Flame According to an assortment of recent news stories, this Thursday, June 18, is the make-or-break date by which a compromise has to be reached between Greece and the EU if a Greek default, with the ensuing risk of a potential Greek exit from the Eurozone, is to be avoided. If that’s more […]
Nuke Russia?
Nuke Russia? The warlords of Washington haven’t ruled it out The War Party is a veritable propaganda machine, churning out product 24/7. Armed with nearly unlimited resources, both from government(s) and the private sector, they carpet-bomb the public with an endless stream of lies in order to soften them up when it’s time to roll. In the past, their […]
March Toward Global War
March Toward Global War Obama = McCarthy + Dulles Brothers The New York Times (NYT) is a trusted source of Administration thinking, particularly in foreign policy, more, an uncanny, sensitive barometer of deep-lying structural-military-diplomatic events which are presently culminating, beyond the New Cold War brewing since Clinton’s international posture in Europe and the Pacific, in […]
Did “China” Really Say “War” With the United States is “Inevitable”?
Did “China” Really Say “War” With the United States is “Inevitable”? The Stenographic Press Strikes Again! Spoiler: No. It would seem a certain amount of foreign affairs reporting starts out as pabulum fed by the government and its loyal allies to available journos, who further if incompletely digest it and then crap it out on […]
