Clearing the FOG (forces of greed) hosts Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers interviewed Chip Gibbons, an expert on Constitutional Law and the legal and policy counsel for Defending Rights and Dissent about a recent right to protest victory in Washington, DC plus his new report, “Still Spying on Dissent: The …
Read More »United States Budgetary Costs of the Post-9/11 Wars: $5.9 Trillion Spent and Obligated
Through FY2019 The United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend an estimated $5.9 trillion (in current dollars) on the war on terror through Fiscal Year 2019, including direct war and war-related spending and obligations for future spending on post-9/11 war veterans
Read More »Death by Oligarchy
Oligarchs, because they live insulated lives surrounded by obsequious courtiers that cater to their bottomless narcissism and hedonism, wield power based on fantasy.
Read More »The Metamorphosis of the Deep State
The Military Intelligence Complex Has Been Redefined as Career Bureaucrats Doing Their Patriotic Duty
Read More »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’
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