Ridding America of the Warmongers

Disgusted Americans who vote for politicians that talk peace yet, once elected, support wars, need to get active in...

Francis Boyle: The United States Promotes Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians

(from “Tackling America’s Toughest Questions,” now at Amazon.com) As long ago as October 19, 2000,...

Re-Thinking the Art of Military Planning

It is often assumed that what preoccupies military planners is their attempts to define the shape of future warfare so...

•  In wake of airline incident: Drumbeat for US war in Yemen

Excerpt: Such concerns appear to carry little weight in Washington or the US media, as the Obama administration continues to build up for a third US war in the oil-rich regions stretching from the...

•  Hackable Drones

On the eve of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, historian Chalmers Johnson observed in The Sorrows of Empire: "At this late date ... it is difficult to imagine how Congress, much like the Roman...

•  The Next Iranian Revolution?

“What has happened to this religious system that it orders the killing of innocent people during the holy day of Ashura?,” moderate cleric Mehdi Karoubi, who came fourth in the election,...

•  What Next for Flyers, Underwear Checks?

The latest terrorist assault on air travel again shows the futility and incompetence of most government security measures to protect the flying public.  The TSA initial reaction has been to...

•  Ever Expanding Wars: An Appalling New Year Certainty

A message repeatedly making the rounds on the Internet shows a picture of an American airman, John Gebhardt, holding an injured Iraqi child on his lap and the accompanying text explains about his...

•  The Political Ecology of Collapse, Part Three: The Bomb at the Heart of the System

The outcome of the Copenhagen climate change talks last week could not have been better suited to illustrate the points I have been trying to make in the last two posts. After all the high hopes and...

•  What Happened This Decade: Middle East

2000 - Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak resigns, marking the end of the Oslo peace process; 2nd Intifada sparked by Ariel Sharon visiting Temple Mount with armed escort; Mohammed Al-Dura...

•  Pentagon now spending more for war than all 50 States combined spend to run the country

The U.S. spends more for war annually than all state governments combined spend for the health, education, welfare, and safety of 308 million Americans. Joseph Henchman, director of state projects...

•  Millions more to lose homes

Moratorium on foreclosures needed now more than everTestimony at a hearing on Dec. 8 by the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services documented how the foreclosure crisis is getting worse. Laurie...

•  What Happened This Decade: United States, Latin America, Europe, Africa & Asia

(The Intelligence Daily) -- United States, Latin America, Europe, Africa & AsiaTimeline 2000-2010: United States 2000: President Bill Clinton signs Commodities Futures Modernization Act (CFMA),...

•  Is Obama Going to Move Guantanamo to Illinois?

(The Intelligence Daily) -- Obama’s Plan To Move Guantanamo To Illinois Poses Serious ProblemsLast Tuesday, in a letter to Illinois governor Pat Quinn, five senior Obama administration...

•  Obama Has Betrayed US

(The Intelligence Daily) -- Obama Year One: Betrayal and Failure (Part II)Obamacare Plans to Ration Healthcare and Enrich Big ProvidersAfter House passage in November, the Senate is now about to pass...

•  Afghanistan: World’s Lengthiest War Has Just Begun

(The Intelligence Daily) -- The higher number of Defense Department contractors, 160,000, added to over 100,000 troops – with the likely prospect of both numbers climbing yet more – will...

•  The Political Ecology of Collapse: Weishaupt’s Fallacy

(The Intelligence Daily) -- Nostalgia’s a funny thing; you never know what’s going to fill the place of Proust’s madeleine and catapult you back to memories of some other time. A...