President Trump’s abrupt withdrawal of all U.S. troops in northeastern Syria brings to mind Great Britain’s 1968 retreat “East of Suez.” It marked an inflection point, a final abandoning of empire given London’s limited financial resources, lapsed political will and heightened anti-colonial hostility.
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Trump Isn’t Really Ending Endless Wars, He’s Making Them Worse
Here’s what progressives should support in Syria.
Read More »Media Yells “Cut!” When Trump Forgets His Lines and Says Something Anti-War
When it comes to substantive issues that the elite all agree on (such as foreign policy), there is little to no pushback against the president, excepting when he utters statements that are read as critical of war and militarism.
Read More »Are You Ready to Die? The US Military/ Security Complex Wants Tensions to Increase…
Washington’s Provocations of Russia and Russia’s Passivity Are Scheduling the Death of the Earth
Read More »Newly declassified court documents reveal FBI FISA violations in targeting Americans
Judge Napolitano’s Chambers: The surveillance the government is performing on U.S. citizens has now been officially revealed – and it’s unconstitutional.
Read More »The War At Home
George W. Bush Is Not Your Republican Friend With Whom You Respectfully Disagree
Read More »An Unfaithful Servant of Imperialism: The Real Reason Trump Is Facing Impeachment
For the neocons and the “liberal” right-to-protect “humanitarian imperialists,” Trump’s lurches in the direction of non-intervention and rapprochement are only venial sins.
Read More »US intel agencies are ‘spying on Americans constantly, abusing the system’
In a ruling made public Tuesday, the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) found that FBI employees illegally collected information on American citizens through the agency’s foreign surveillance efforts.
Read More »The New Arms Race: Hypersonic Weapons and “National Insecurity”
Hypersonic weapons close in on their targets at a minimum speed of Mach 5, five times the speed of sound or 3,836.4 miles an hour. They are among the latest entrants in an arms competition that has embroiled the United States for generations, first with the Soviet Union, today with …
Read More »U.S. B-2 Bomber Recently Tested a New Nuclear Bomb
Thank god it was not live, but the point is clear: the nuclear age is not over.
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