David Vine’s ‘The United States of War’ is one of the most illuminating studies of how the US’ empire of forts and bases developed and works. The defense of the United States, unlike charity, does not begin at home. Its foreign policy elites claim that US national security is threatened …
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New Research Finds CIA Used Black Americans as Drugs Experiment Guinea Pigs
By now, many will be familiar with Project MKULTRA. For decades, the CIA conducted highly unethical experiments on humans in order to perfect brainwashing, mind control and torture techniques. Perhaps the program’s most notorious aspect was the administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs to targets, particularly LSD. These substances …
Read More »Pentagon Contractors in Afghanistan Pocketed $108 Billion Over 20 Years
Military contracting “obscures where and how taxpayer money flows,” and “makes it difficult to know how many people are employed, injured, and killed,” said the Costs of War Project report’s author. Pentagon contractors operating in Afghanistan over the past two decades raked in nearly $108 billion—funds that “were distributed and spent …
Read More »Another Hiroshima is Coming — Unless We Stop It Now
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target – China. When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the …
Read More »Hiroshima and Ukraine—an Existential Teachable Moment
Nuclear weapons do not make us safe and have not prevented war but rather have brought us closer to realizing the catastrophic outcome of nuclear war either by intent, miscalculation, or accident. 77 years ago the U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 and three days later, Nagasaki, …
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