Thursday, April 3, 2025

500 years is long enough! Human Depravity in the Congo

For more than 500 years, the Congo has been brutalized by the extraordinary violence inflicted by those who have treated the country as a resource – for slaves, rubber, timber, wildlife and minerals – to be exploited.

Narco-corruption, ISIS 3.0, and the terror drone attack that never happened

If the Pentagon’s war-gamers are to be believed, far worse is yet to come.

The pawns of war

Memorial Day is here again, and it seems ‘The Dogs of War’ are at it as always.

An empire of nothing at all?

The U.S. military takes us through the gates of hell.

Gearing up for the third Gulf War

Will Washington, Tel Aviv, Riyadh, and Tehran face off in a future cataclysm?

Arms and influence

How the Saudis took Donald Trump for a ride.

War and the imperial presidency

Congress offers a bipartisan blank check to Donald Trump.

Two-faced Trump: Peace in Korea, World War in the Middle East

Welcome to the impossible world of America’s two-faced president.

Why can’t the world’s best military win its wars?

Americans need to rethink war and look honestly at ourselves and our friends.

Syria – a case study in propaganda

The most important thing is that people are gullible and malleable, since that allows us to keep the war going and eventually achieve our goals.