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American Wars – The Secrets of Vietnam and Afghanistan

December 6, 2018 Comments Off on American Wars – The Secrets of Vietnam and Afghanistan
The recent movie The Post (about the Washington Post newspaper and its involvement with the Pentagon Papers – see below) poses interesting reminders of the power of the US government to rain death on countries that fall under our imperial domain and simultaneously keep the American people in the dark --->> read more -->>
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empire

Cost of War – $5.6 trillion for US wars 2001-2017

December 12, 2017 Comments Off on Cost of War – $5.6 trillion for US wars 2001-2017
Cost of War – $5.6 trillion for US wars 2001-2017 The Watson Institute at Brown University has just released an updated report: United States Budgetary Costs of Post 9/11 Wars Through FY2018: A Summary of the $5.6 Trillion in Costs for the US Wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Post --->> read more -->>
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Trump Republican Policy Crimes (some only attempted at the moment)

November 30, 2017 Comments Off on Trump Republican Policy Crimes (some only attempted at the moment)
Trump – Republican Positions and Crimes (some just attempted) against the poor, working and middle class Not to be obsessive, but the current Trump Republicans effort to cram their bill to pay back their corporate and rich supporters with giant tax breaks has me frothing a bit. I wrote down --->> read more -->>
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Russian “Interference” and the American Empire – the lost ironies

November 5, 2017 Comments Off on Russian “Interference” and the American Empire – the lost ironies
With all of the current outrage over Russia’s attempts to influence our last presidential election one can only be struck by the notion that Americans don’t know their own history, even that which occurred within our own lifetimes. Thus they are unable to see the ironies involved in our complaints --->> read more -->>
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Parallels and Prescience – on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 and the “War on Terror”

September 12, 2011 Comments Off on Parallels and Prescience – on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 and the “War on Terror”
Having successfully avoided much of the national moment for our politicians to blather on about the true meaning of 9/11, I was struck this morning by parallel between our “War on Terror” and our longest war, the “War on Drugs” (I have written earlier about this here). Some may be --->> read more -->>
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America’s Longest War – a socio-political-military disaster – indicted by Global Commission on Drug Policy

June 12, 2011 Comments Off on America’s Longest War – a socio-political-military disaster – indicted by Global Commission on Drug Policy
Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy Last week this commission released its report,  “War on Drugs“. This once again brings into focus our longest war, Nixon’s War on Drugs. Here are the first two paragraphs from the executive summary: The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating --->> read more -->>