Saturday, November 23, 2024

Where have you gone, Smedley Butler?

A nation turns its lonely eyes to (someone like) you...

The American Empire: Murder Inc.

Investigative journalist Allan Nairn knows firsthand how the U.S. uses mass killing as a routine tool of foreign policy. The horrifying tactics of Islamic State, he says, are an imitation of what we have been doing and what we have been teaching our international proxies for generations.

Funding evil in Afghanistan (and beyond)

It may seem cynical to say so, but after almost 18 years of occupation, it sometimes seems that an entire country, one of the poorest in the world, has been turned into a kind of live fire training ground for U.S. and allied forces.

As the world watches Syria, don’t forget about Yemen

The problem isn’t that the U.S. is standing by and doing nothing while this horror unfolds. It’s much worse than that.

We All Are Islamic State

The killings in Brussels or Paris and the killings in U.S. military strikes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria or Libya perpetuate the same dark lusts. The savage tit-for-tat game will not end until we rouse ourselves from our hypnotized state.

Massive overkill

Brought to you by the nuclear-industrial complex.

The living literature of war

“The pain remains.”

Meatball subs, not nuclear subs

Or how to deliver 16,128 Hiroshimas...

Working for a real mad man

The military stood up to Donald Trump. Who will now stand up to the military?

One Man’s War

Bringing Iraq to America