Sachs estimates US debt at $ 24 trillion dollars, much of it the result of US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, as well the maintenance of 800 military bases abroad, development of new weapons systems, and a nuclear rearmament program in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which the US ratified over 50 years ago.
Take water, for example. Every life form on Earth requires H2O, animal or vegetable. We can make more people, more money, more weapons, but we can’t make more water.
Several articles are included in this post. To read the articles, click on the title or if available, the Read More link. The American Cult of Bombing Consortium News Originally published under William Astore, The American Cult of Bombing and Endless War on Tom Dispatch June 10, 2019 William J. Astore analyzes the fallacies behind the More
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Secret military documents expose the inner workings of Obama's Drone Wars truthdig.com October 15, 2015 jules 2000 / Shutterstock Targeted killings carried out by unmanned drones, though still very controversial, have become a fixture of U.S. foreign policy. On Thursday, The Intercept published a report, “The Drone Papers,” which gives the public a close look More
Perpetual War How Does the Global War on Terror Ever End? By Jeremy Scahill Posted by Jeremy Scahill at 6:27am, October 29, 2013 TomDispatch.com Read Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. [This epilogue to Scahill’s bestselling book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, is posted with the kind permission of its publisher, Nation Books.] On January 21, 2013, Barack Obama was More
Always and Everywhere The New York Times and the Enduring “Threat” of Isolationism By Andrew J. Bacevich October 24, 2013 tomdispatch.com Read Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. The abiding defect of U.S. foreign policy? It’s isolationism, my friend. Purporting to steer clear of war, isolationism fosters it. Isolationism impedes the spread of democracy. It inhibits trade and therefore prosperity. More
Always and Everywhere The New York Times and the Enduring “Threat” of Isolationism By Andrew J. Bacevich October 24, 2013 tomdispatch.com Read Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. The abiding defect of U.S. foreign policy? It’s isolationism, my friend. Purporting to steer clear of war, isolationism fosters it. Isolationism impedes the spread of democracy. It inhibits trade and therefore prosperity. More
Linda J. Bilmes and Michael D. Intriligator, ask in a recent paper, “How many wars is the US fighting today?” Washingtons Blog May 12, 2013 intellihub.com Fire Dog Lake’s Kevin Gosztola notes: Today US military operations are involved in scores of countries across all the five continents. The US military is the world’s largest landlord, with significant military facilities More
