House authorizes $858B for the Pentagon, by Stephen Semler
How much of the $858 billion authorized by the FY2023 NDAA will be transferred to military contractors? I estimate $452 billion.
Ukraine: Viewpoints on the war
Scott Ritter, Andrew Bacevich, Caitlin Johnstore, John LaForge, Medea Benjanmin, Patrick Lawrence and Marcy Winograd talk about the war between Russia and Ukraine. Was it avoidable? Is it a proxy war? Will there be a winner? Is the nuclear threat real? and more.
The Chris Hedges Report: America’s dangerous leaders with Andrew Bacevich
"Broad in its scope yet concise, this is an important nonconformist interpretation of American history." Kirkus Reviews
War as Presentation, by Patrick Lawrence
Now we have the Ukraine case, and we need not bother with “ample reason.” It is open-and-shut evident at this point that we witness two wars as the Armed Forces of Ukraine face off with the Russian military. There is the presented war, the meta-war, you might say, and there is the waged war, the war taking place on the ground, nothing meta about it.
Palestine/Israel and the U.S.: Updates and the Death by Sniper of Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Divestment News, Journalist Shireen Abu Aklleh, BDS Divestment Action in Minnesota, and more... Palestine/Israel and the U.S.: Updates by Lucia Wilkes Smith, WAMM Middle East Committee Volume 40 Number 4 Women Against Military Madness Summer II 2022 The Pillsbury Boycott Is Suspended There is some good news!In June the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) announced More
What to Do in Case of a Nuclear Attack; The Nuclear Triad and Treaties: a Death or Life Struggle; Intermediate and Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Why hasn’t more attention been paid to these extremely dangerous weapons that are the most likely to be used?
Patrick Lawrence: The Strong, and the Merely Powerful
Let me also remind you that the United States, together with the British, turned Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities into ruins without any military necessity during World War II. And this was done defiantly, without any, I repeat, military necessity. There was only one goal: just like in the case of the nuclear bombings in Japan, to intimidate both our country and the whole world. …
This is not a drill: The Music and Politics of Roger Waters
The rock legend and Pink Floyd co-founder shares everything from his musical origins to his opinions on the war in Ukraine, experiences of US government surveillance, and his ongoing ‘This Is Not A Drill’ tour. Roger Waters performs onstage at Crypto.com Arena on September 27, 2022, in Los Angeles, California. Kevin Winter/Getty Images POSTED IN More
On the International Day of Peace September 21st, The U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination Reaffirmed Its Commitment to the Weapon of War
For the Biden administration, a commitment to peace is a poor substitute for the benefits of securing another $13 billion in aid for Ukraine contained in legislation meant to fund the U.S. government. Moving money from the public coffers to the pockets of the defense companies that pay the bills for both parties is always seen as good bipartisan policy.
Chomsky: US Must Join Global Call for Negotiations as Russia Escalates Actions
Chomsky urges that the U.S. join the rest of the world in calling for negotiations, not because Putin can be trusted, but because negotiations are our best hope for averting disaster. There’s no certainty as to whether this process would result in peace, but as Chomsky says, “There is one and only one way to find out: Try.”
Who drives Washington’s wars of aggression and outrageous military spending?
To be fair, the Nuland-Kagan mom-and-pop shop is really only a microcosm of how the Military-Industrial Complex has worked for decades: think-tank analysts generate the reasons for military spending, the government bureaucrats implement the necessary war policies, and the military contractors make lots of money before kicking back some to the think tanks — so the bloody but profitable cycle can spin again.
Ukraine and the Triumph of Militarism, by Caitlin Johnstone
What makes Tierney’s triumphant militarist smut so annoying isn’t how he’s wrong, it’s how he’s right. You can take issue all you like with his use of the word “left” to describe liberal supporters of capitalism and empire who just want the empire to be a bit less embarrassing and maybe forgive their student loans, but that’s the fault of the generations of psyops that have gone into sabotaging the left and destroying its memory, not Tierney’s.