The Military Intelligence Complex Has Been Redefined as Career Bureaucrats Doing Their Patriotic Duty
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Whither the United States of America? The “American Dream” has Become a “Nightmare”
The least expectations of all hardworking families are simple and noble. They want to raise their children to be educated, content and prosperous in a safe environment. This is a universal aspiration. From Baghdad to Boston, working families share the same hopes and expectations; only the degree of suffering separates them. When …
Read More »Homeland Insecurity. “Perpetual War”
Well, once again we have Veterans Day upon us. With it comes the preponderance of overt militarism and military propaganda. Tune into any sporting event on the boob tube and you get the camouflaged soldiers and ROTC students (if a college game) staring into the camera. After all, aren’t we …
Read More »‘The Business of Building Walls’: New Report Shows Companies Cashing In on Europe’s Expanding Anti-Migrant Barriers
“As we celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is tragic that so many new walls have been built across Europe to keep out the most vulnerable people on our planet.”
Read More »Is America a democracy? If so, why does it deny millions the vote?
Voter suppression as a tactic – from strict ID laws to closing polling places to purging voter rolls – is deliberately making it hard for minority communities in America to exercise their democratic right
Read More »Death by Drones: The Reason the Navy’s Nuclear Submarines Could Be in Trouble
Drones might undo the stealth advantages of nuclear submarines.
Read More »US military needs help from private firms and universities to beat China in AI race, says Defence Secretary Mark Esper
Defense secretary says national effort on par with World War II and space race needed to prevent Chinese military gaining ‘decisive advantage’
Read More »Smoking Guns in America
We are told that “as of September 24, 2019, 334 mass shootings have occurred in 2019… In these shootings, 1,347 people were injured and 377 died.
Read More »More people around the world see U.S. power and influence as a ‘major threat’ to their country
A growing share of people around the world see U.S. power and influence as a “major threat” to their country, and these views are linked with attitudes toward President Donald Trump and the United States as a whole, according to Pew Research Center surveys conducted in 22 nations since 2013.
Read More »Why Bullying Isn’t Working In Foreign Policy
The pervasive bullying so far has not been matched by a comparable degree of positive results, as many have noticed.
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