The United States hides behind the facade of democracy to obscure the many contradictions of its domestic and foreign policy. The Democratic Party specifically peddles this lie about using democracy to bring peace to the very regions it is helping to destroy. The United States often claims to promote democracy …
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Biden’s ‘new’ nuclear strategy and the super-fuse that sets it off
The military is already upgrading warheads capable of fighting a war with both China and Russia simultaneously The New York Timesreported last week that President Biden has approved a secret nuclear strategy refocusing on Chinese and Russian nuclear forces. According to the paper, the new nuclear guidance “reorients America’s deterrent strategy” to …
Read More »AFRICOM Sponsors Terrorism in Africa?
Since Niger and Mali exposed that Ukraine, a nation heavily reliant on the United States for military and economic support, is supporting terrorism in the Sahel, this has starkly exposed the contradictions inherent in AFRICOM’s mission on the African continent. AFRICOM was established under the premise of combating terrorism and …
Read More »Declining U.S Hegemon and Rising Geopolitical Tension
Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, one of the leading neocon architects of the Greater Middle East and North Africa Project launched by the US after September 11, 2001, wrote a propaganda article titled “The Perils of Isolationism” in the Foreign Affairs magazine dated August 20, 2024. In the article that marketed …
Read More »A Detailed Look at What the US Doesn’t Want You To Know About Weapons It Sends to Israel
If the Biden administration is truly concerned about the loss of innocent Palestinian life in Gaza, it can stop Israel’s atrocities by denying it the tools it needs to commit them. The Biden administration recently approved five major arms sales to Israel for F-15 fighter aircraft, tank ammunition, tactical vehicles, air-to-air missiles, mortar rounds, …
Read More »The Military-Industrial Complex Is Killing the American Dream and Hopes for World Peace
As long as official Washington clings to the illusion that arms racing is the magic key to peace, stability, and global dominance, we will waste large sums of scarce resources while increasing the risks of unnecessary conflict. America’s commitment to arm Israel and Ukraine while attempting to stockpile large quantities of weapons …
Read More »American Interventionist Foreign Policy: One and a Quarter Century of Failure
When Theodore Roosevelt succeeded William McKinley as president in 1901, he realized the US was no longer just a continental republic; with the Spanish-American War of 1898, America now claimed Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines as territories, Cuba a protectorate and annexed Hawaii. Roosevelt “believed it was the burden of ‘civilized’ …
Read More »On Immigration, the Democrats Must Propose a True Alternative to Trumpism
Agreeing with Trump that immigrants are the enemy to be detained at the border, and then only disagreeing on the numbers and methods, contradicts any commitment to a fact-based policy, while making immigrant communities scapegoats. On August 17, a group of committed migrant activists set forth on a three-day march …
Read More »No Palestinian Americans Will Speak at Convention, DNC Decides
“Uncommitted” Democratic delegates are staging a sit-in in front of the United Center until they get a call reversing DNC decision. Democratic National Convention officials rejected a request to allow Palestinian Americans to speak from the conference’s main stage. In protest of that decision, a group of “Uncommitted” delegates critical of …
Read More »The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death …
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