What started as an anti-authoritarian uprising became a brutal international proxy war. However many years pass, the solution remains the same. This week marks the 11th anniversary of the war in Syria. The war in Syria should never have reached its 11th anniversary. Only an international political settlement can put an …
Read More »The Great Reset’s 5G Cyborg Ecosystem
The Great Reset is a globalist plan that is moving forward at lighting speed. The COVID-19 pandemic was part and parcel of that plan, but to really fulfill the technocrats’ ambitions, a war of some kind is likely needed They need chaos, mass casualties and financial chaos in order to create …
Read More »60 Years of War-Making May Yet Result in the Destruction of US Democracy
All those trillions of dollars consumed in wasteful wars have helped foster a creeping pessimism in Americans—a pessimism spawned by corporate elites increasingly consumed by greed. In my lifetime of nearly 60 years, America has waged five major wars, winning one decisively, then throwing that victory away, while losing the other …
Read More »One Very Long War From Vietnam to Afghanistan
After more than 60 years of deadly disasters, too few Americans are willing to confront the disaster that has befallen the United States as a consequence of our serial misuse of military power. In the long and storied history of the United States Army, many young officers have served in many …
Read More »The military is scrambling to understand the aviation crash risk from a new 5G sale
WASHINGTON — As part of a broader move to boost the 5G industry in the United States, the Federal Communications Commission on Dec. 8 began auctioning a portion of C-band electromagnetic spectrum, a move the committee’s chairman, Ajit Pai, celebrated as “a big day for American consumers and U.S. leadership in 5G.” …
Read More »When a Sick Nation Comes Apart at the Seams
Nation (un)building and planet (un)building, American-style. Let me start 2022 by heading back—way, way back—for a moment. It’s easy to forget just how long this world has been a dangerous place for human beings. I thought about this recently when I stumbled upon a little memoir my Aunt Hilda scrawled, decades …
Read More »The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare
The U.S. is becoming increasingly ungovernable, and some experts believe it could descend into civil war. What should Canada do then? By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship. …
Read More »The U.S. Military Is a Machine of Impunity
Wartime savagery requires that its perpetrators are told that their actions are acceptable — maybe heroic — and must not cease. MY EDUCATION IN wartime savagery started in Bosnia in the 1990s. Reporting on the war, I visited death camps, saw civilians get shot and beaten, interviewed torturers, and was arrested multiple times for being …
Read More »U.S. Police Unions Starting to Ask: Why Does the ACLU ‘Defend the Indefensible’?
With the introduction of ACLU Watch, more people can better understand that a robust police presence is not the true source of America’s crime problem, Robert Bridge writes. Law enforcement officials have begun a watch beat of sorts against the American Civil Liberties Union, whose support of justice reform has …
Read More »The US Military Budget in the Form of a Mushroom Cloud
Why it’s time to make deep cuts at the Pentagon. Where are you going to get the money? That question haunts congressional proposals to help the poor, the unhoused, and those struggling to pay the mortgage or rent or medical bills, among so many other critical domestic matters. And yet—big surprise!—there’s …
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