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The Western nations and especially the United States awoke today to a new world. After decades of hearing US politicians boastingly describe the US as the “exceptional nation,” justifying its repeated violation of international law with invasions of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Panama, Grenada, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, El Salvador, and …
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The latest events in Ukraine have demonstrated the ugly but effective operation of Mutual Assured Destruction — the frightening and incredibly costly state of affairs in this world that arrived in 1949. That was when the Soviet Union exploded its own nuclear bomb, just four years after the US exploded the first three in …
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Danish purchased F-16s. Soon to be replaced with 27 F-35s. Part II of a CAM series on Historic U.S.-Danish Military-Intelligence Cooperation. Part I: Danish Defense Intelligence Chief Is Jailed by Social Democratic Government—Possibly to Protect U.S. Spy Programs – This Can’t Be Happening! (thiscantbehappening.net) We were awakened to the roar of F-16s exercising overhead. …
Danish Defense Intelligence Service Chief, Lars Findsen, a 20-year intelligence officer, incarcerated on a charge of “treason.” [Source: dr.dk] Part 1 of a 2-part series on U.S. penetration of Denmark’s National Security State; Social Democrat Government Invites US Troops and War Bombs First Ever in Its History Commissioned by Covert Action Magazine Spy …
GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire; St. Martin’s Press, 2021, 412 pages. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. -Attributed to Mark Twain The tale journalist/historian Jonathon M. Katz tells in his new book, Gangsters of Capitalism, is an epic story that “rhymes” a …
This article is published in Salon.com, which assigned it. Last August with a chaotic evacuation by air of the last US troops in Afghanistan, President Biden effectively ended one of the country’s most embarrassing and pointless wars, leaving that battered land fully in the control of the Taliban — the same dogged AK-toting …
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I poured myself a glass of Guinness As much to enjoy drinking it as To watch the creamy foam build on top, The black stout rise at the bottom. The process is called nitrogenation But I’m not interested in the science. I am interested in the tempest That drives the storm of malted beer down …
Sometimes the hypocrisy of the US government, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, it just too much to let pass. The latest example of this is the Ukraine crisis, where the US pretty much stands all alone (unless you count Britain’s embattled and embarrassed Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who parrots US policy like a …
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Oh, there will be a war! It will not be just any old war. It will be our very own war. Make it count. Hoard food If you haven’t already. Firewood, kerosene, Gasoline. Install a windmill. Guns, ammo. I’m not wasting any more poem space On this list. Just go on line. You will find …
(This artidle was written for The Edge, a publication of Ithaca College’s Park Center for Independent Media.) One of the biggest blacked-out stories of 2021 surely has to be the news, on November 16, that the Pentagon once again had abysmally failed to pass an audit, despite the best efforts of 1,200 top-flight Wall Street …
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