Boondoggle, Inc. Making Sense of the $1.25 Trillion National Security State Budget
Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and their cohorts -- are laughing all the way to the bank.
Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and their cohorts -- are laughing all the way to the bank.
On June 11, 2016 Sami Rasouli, Iraqi American, formerly a resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota, now a resident of Najaf, Iraq, spoke about current issues and problems in Iraq on his recent trip to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul MN.
Congress was to be the dominant branch of government, and the Executive’s role merely was to narrowly execute and enforce laws passed by that body. Even the president’s commander-in-chief role, much abused by modern chief executives, was to be restricted narrowly to commanding the U.S. military in battle. By Ivan Eland ConsortiumNews.com October 14, 2014 More
Omar Dahi says the forces likely to be armed by the US are as destructive as IS; Obama is wrong that the Assad regime has no legitimacy, most Syrians want an end to war, the creation of a broad-front government, and a national army to confront warlords and extremism [youtube=http://youtu.be/QB-suyKQyqc?list=UUrmm_7RDZJeQzq2-wvmjueg] Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise More
Washington’s elite media, as usual, is doing its job exactly wrong.They are baying for war.By BY DAN FROOMKIN TheIntercept.com September 4, 2014 Pundits and reporters are seemingly competing for who can be more scornful of President Obama for his insufficiently militaristic response to the brutal Sunni militants who call themselves the Islamic State in Iraq and More
March, 29, 2014 Dear Editor, I have read the many pro comments about Condoleezza Rice being the featured speaker at the University of Minnesota Distinguished Carlson Series and wonder a few things. Do these people (and the people who invited her) already forget what she did in authorizing the war in More
As the world remembers Mandela, here are some of the things he believed that many will gloss over Aviva Shen Published: Sunday 8 December 2013 NationofChange.org . In the desire to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s life — an iconic figure who triumphed over South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime — it’s tempting to homogenize his views into 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
Tomgram: Jeremiah Goulka, Shell Shock Lite "I was one nightmare short of PTSD." Posted by Jeremiah Goulka April 16, 2013 TomDispatch.com “Shell shock,” the psychological scourge of World War I, occurred after “a man has been buried, lifted, or otherwise subjected to the physical effects of a bursting shell or other similar explosive.” So wrote Charles Myers, More
Tomgram: Jeremiah Goulka, Shell Shock Lite "I was one nightmare short of PTSD." Posted by Jeremiah Goulka April 16, 2013 TomDispatch.com “Shell shock,” the psychological scourge of World War I, occurred after “a man has been buried, lifted, or otherwise subjected to the physical effects of a bursting shell or other similar explosive.” So wrote Charles Myers, More