My boots are on the porch. They are not on the ground. I keep them on the porch When I am not in them. And I’m not in them. They are not working now, They are dreaming up an army Of boots on the ground Making gardens. Just hand me A moonbeam so I …
Lessons go unlearned again:
Why Did the Afghan Army Fold So Fast? Because They had Nothing to Fight For
American pundits, politicians and Pentagon apologists are all casting about trying to find the reason why the Afghanistan military, supposedly 300,000 trained people in uniform and supplied with over $83 billion in US weaponry including ground attack planes and helicopters, folded like an old deck of used cards in two weeks’ time confronted by …
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20 years of war finally end in Kabul without a bang:
Biden Could Have Spared Afghanistan and US 6 Months of Pointless War by Just Ending It
There are two things I suppose everyone would agree are true about the remarkable events of the past several weeks in Afghanistan. One is that we are witnessing the latest major loss in a string of wars and “incursions” that the US has lost since the end of World War II. The other is …
Petulance as foreign policy:
Bomber Biden Sends in B-52 Bombers in a Tantrum over Taliban Advance
In what can only be called a criminal and murderous tantrum by a loser, the United States, on the order of President Joe Biden, has begun dispatching B-52 Stratofortress bombers and AC-130 fixed-wing gunships equipped with large Gatling machine guns and a cannon to carpet-bomb and perpetrate mass killing on Taliban forces surging to …
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Building more atomic bomb triggers is the ‘pits’:
Time to Stop Modernizing America’s Nukes and to Start Negotiating Peace
(This article was originally written for and published by ‘The Edge,’ a magazine published by the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College_ The Biden administration, in its proposed military budget, is calling for a restart of something the US arms industry has not produced in any significant quantity since 1992: nuclear “pits” …
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Denmark's Neighboring Leaders Break Silence:
EXPOSED: Denmark Banana Kingdom Unclothed in Bed with US Spy Agency
(The illustration is a metaphor for a Danish secret military investigation into what the National Security Agency was sucking out of Denmark’s spy network. See footnote Operation Dunhammer. [i]) Latest revelations concerning Denmark’s systematic spying upon its closest neighbor leaders—Germany, France, Norway and Sweden—since 2013 were broadcast and published online recently by the public …
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Peace-washing the anti-war movement and limiting criticism of Biden and Dems
Are Big Donors Neutralizing Peace Movement Activism?
This article by Dave Lindorff and appearing in Salon magazine, was researched and written with the assistance of a grant from the ExposeFacts program of the Institute for Public Accuracy During the four years of the Trump administration, resistance and even revolutionary talk were in the air as organizations with names like The Resistance and Our …
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With 'forever' wars over on 9/11, time to SLASH Pentagon spending!
Biden Shows True Colors Proposing Bigger War Department Budget than Trump
President Joe Biden has shown his true colors, as this nation mis-celebrates Memorial Day Weekend by guzzling beer and other alcoholic drinks, racking up a typically epic death toll on the highways, and risking a new upsurge in the Coronavirus pandemic partying without masks, marking the date himself by proposing a record new military budget. …
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America Shares the blame for Israel’s war crimes
US-Supplied Planes and Bombs are Slaughtering Palestinian Children in Gaza
When you’re watching those horrific images of massive explosions taking down high-rise apartment buildings in Gaza, and reading the statistics of dead in Gaza (195 dead, nearly half of them women and including over 40 children as young as six-months of age), remember that while it’s Israel bombing these buildings and killing these women, …
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The world's been going to s**t for too long
Enough with the Brinkmanship! Let’s Give Peace a F**king Chance
President Joe Biden and his military and state department at a minimum had to have known that Israel’s Mossad was going to sabotage Iran’s Natanz nuclear processing site on April 11. If they hadn’t been warned in advance of that attack, and at least tacitly approved it, they would have publicly protested it. Clearly …
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