Interestingly, the top ‘foreign policy’ priorities are ones that affect people domestically, including jobs and immigration. New survey data released Wednesday shows that Americans prioritize getting out of Middle Eastern wars over confronting Middle Eastern adversaries. The Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, surveyed two thousand registered voters in late …
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Deter, Defend and Spy on Your Friends
There’s no guarantee whatever that the NSA has refrained or will refrain in future from eavesdropping on Washington’s NATO allies. In May there were many media reports concerning Steadfast Defender which is a series of land, air and sea deployments and manoeuvres by armed forces of nations of the U.S.-NATO military alliance …
Read More »AFRICOM Military’s Exercise: The Art of Creating New Pretexts for Propagating US Interests
Phoenix Express 2021, the AFRICOM-sponsored military exercise involving 13 countries in the Mediterranean Sea region, concluded last week. While its stated aim was to combat “irregular migration” and trafficking, the US record in the region indicates more nefarious interests Phoenix Express 2021 (PE21), a 12-day US-Africa Command (AFRICOM)-sponsored military exercise …
Read More »Europe Without Neutrals: NATO Lures Ireland into Global Military Network
On June 1 the Irish Times disclosed that Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs recently recommended to the nation’s Commission on Defence that Ireland expand military integration with NATO and the European Union. In the first case with the military bloc’s Partnership for Peace program which the country joined in 1999. …
Read More »Canada’s Colonial Legacy Reflects Global Impunity for Settlercolonialism
Canada’s recent discovery not only alludes to the existence of other mass graves in the country. It also sheds light on the global colonial legacy and how the military empire expanded through exploitation of indigenous lands. The recent discovery of an indigenous mass grave in Canada bearing the remains of …
Read More »PENTAGON UNDERCOUNTS CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN NEW REPORT, EXPERTS SAY
The annual report vastly understates civilians killed by the U.S. military, and condolence payments are not offered even in confirmed cases. THE U.S. MILITARY killed 23 civilians and injured another 10 in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia during 2020, according to a Pentagon report on civilian casualties that was released on Wednesday and immediately …
Read More »“America Jobs Plan”? Biden’s Disastrous “Infrastructure” Bill
The Biden Administration has proposed what it calls a $2.3 trillion “infrastructure” legislation which it calls the “American Jobs Plan.” Far from addressing the huge deficit in America’s highway, bridges, railway, electric grid, water supply and such economically vital infrastructure that would address critical problems in the functioning of the …
Read More »CIA (Dis)Information Operations Come Home to the US
Reporters joke the easiest job in Washington is CIA spokesman. You need only listen carefully to questions and say “No comment’ before heading to Happy Hour. The joke, however, is on us. The reporters pretend to see only one side of the CIA, the passive hiding of information about itself. …
Read More »MICROWAVE WEAPON CONCERNS SPREAD TO DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
A memo obtained by The Intercept reveals that CIA-bred fears of “Havana Syndrome” have reached the department that houses ICE and CBP. U.S. GOVERNMENT SUSPICIONS about microwave weapon attacks have apparently spread to the Department of Homeland Security, the nation’s largest federal law enforcement body encompassing agencies like Immigration and Customs …
Read More »The Horrible History of Big Pharma
Important Study by Global Justice Now. “Why we can’t leave pharmaceutical corporations in the driving seat of the Covid-19 response” Any long-term solution to the deadly Covid-19 pandemic involves the discovery and equitable distribution of an effective vaccine and treatment options. Yet, across the world, governments are handing responsibility for …
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