Like the Red Army, the U.S. military will finally leave that country in defeat and will bring that defeat home with them.
Climate Sabotage & Forever Wars: Is America the Most Dangerous Country in the World?
On Climate Change, quagmire seems like an appropriate image, as long as we keep in mind that we are the aggressors.
Why does the MSM let Trump set the News Agenda, Every Minute of Every Day?
And why so little reporting on the 50 US bases in the Middle East?
The Trump Show: The Real Fake News is obsessing about the President 24/7
Never, not ever, has a single human being been so inescapable.
Afghanistan: America’s Longest Forgotten War Turns a grim 17
(Tomdispatch.com) | – We’re already two years past the crystal anniversary and eight years short of the silver one, or at least we would be, had it been a wedding — and, after a fashion, perhaps it was. On October 7, 2001, George W. Bush launched the invasion — “liberation” was the word often used […]
How the Neocons’ ‘New American Century’ Crashed and Burned
(Tomdispatch.com) – When you think about it, Earth is a relatively modest-sized planet — about 25,000 miles in circumference at the Equator, with a total surface area of 197 million square miles, almost three-quarters of which is water. It’s not so hard, if you’re in a certain frame of mind (as American officials were after […]
Our Thirty Years War of the 21st Century
New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Fair warning. Stop reading right now if you want, because I’m going to repeat myself. What choice do I have, since my subject is the Afghan War (America’s second Afghan War, no less)? I began writing about that war in October 2001, almost 17 years ago, just after the U.S. invasion […]
Is America Sclerotic or still Youthful Enough to take on Imperial Presidency and Climate Change?
There was a period in my later life when I used to say that, from the age of 20 to my late sixties, I was always 40 years old; I was, that is, an old young man and a young old one. Tell that to my legs now. Of course, there’s nothing faintly strange in […]
America’s other Crisis of Addiction besides Opioids: Trump and War
America’s addiction crisis goes deeper than prescription drugs
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