Andrew Bacevich Shellacks the New York Times’ Usefully Idiotic Coverage of America’s Never-Ending Wars
A well-argued dressing down of the New York Times for its less than illuminating reporting on America’s military adventurism.
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All Guns, No Butter: Military Contractors as Welfare Queens
The Trump budget is particularly shameless in providing more pork to the military despite the absence of any genuine pressing need.
Read more...Rewriting the History of the Vietnam War, to the Detriment of Everyone Save the Military-Industrial Complex
Identifying the main players behind Vietnam War revisionist history and how they have succeed in forging disastrous policies.
Read more...Lee Camp: How To Create NPR’s Propaganda – As Seen In a Hit Piece Against Me
NPR stoops to intellectually and factually dishonest bashing of comedy host Lee Camp. Not the behavior of a confident elite.
Read more...‘The Saudis are Going to Fight Tehran to the Last Dead American’
The Saudis are utterly incompetent at military operations. You’re seeing that in Yemen. It is going to be, if it is going to be, an extremely brutal war. Iran will respond probably asymmetrically.
Read more...As US Fuels War Crimes in Yemen, House Says US Involvement is Unauthorized
House passes non-binding resolution on US role in war in Yemen; the measure fails to confront the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis there.
Read more...Kingdom Of Fear: Saudi Arabia On Lockdown
Saudi Arabia is in the midst of a political and informational crackdown.
Read more...War Making in the Age of the Imperial Presidency: War Without War Powers (the Not-So-New American Way)
WWII is the last time Congress declared war; brief history of how it has ceded responsibility for committing to war making to the President.
Read more...On Iran, Trump Follows Iraq War Neocons
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson on why Trump is trying to decertify Iran even though he has admitted Iran is fully compliant with its agreement.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: America’s Permanent Wars as Mere Background Noise
How the US media barely deigns to take notice of our neverending wars.
Read more...Trump as “Consequence, Not Cause” of the Collapse in the Post Cold War Consensus
How press and pundit fixation on Trump diverts public attention from power structures that work against ordinary Americans.
Read more...Bannon and Blackwater Want to Outsource Afghanistan War
Details on how the US is doubling down on its failed war in Afghanistan.
Read more...US to Bar its Citizens from Travel to North Korea: What Comes Next?
Today North Korea, tomorrow– who knows? US ban on travel by its citizens to North Korea revives a problematic Cold War practice.
Read more...War & Cholera Decimate Yemen, But Saudi Bombing Gets More US Help
As Yemen’s cholera epidemic spirals out of control and millions face famine, Ben Norton calls out US complicity in the Saudi-led war.
Read more...Are The Arab Nations On The Brink Of War? The Rift Between GCC Monarchies Saudi Arabia and Qatar
With reference to military confrontation, there is very little to suggest that any internal armed confrontation among GCC members will take place.
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