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Meet the New Waste. Worse than the Old Waste?

by Sheldon Richman | Mar 21, 2017 | Blog, Economics, Foreign Policy

Jim Bovard writes: "Trump proposes to devote almost all of the savings from cutting domestic programs into the Pentagon, whose budget would rise by $52 billion, roughly 10%. Since 9/11, the Defense Department has been Washington’s ultimate sacred cow — regardless of...

Why Trump’s Syria ‘Surge’ Will Fail

by Ron Paul | Mar 13, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Last week President Trump significantly escalated the US military presence in Syria, sending some 400 Marines to the ISIS-controlled Raqqa, and several dozen Army Rangers to the contested area around Manbij. According to press reports he will also station some 2,500...

10/21/16 Danny Davis on the battle of the ten armies

by Scott Horton | Oct 21, 2016 | The Scott Horton Show

Retired US Army colonel Daniel L. Davis discusses his article “Why the Battle for Mosul Could Become a Total Disaster;” and how US military intervention is paving the way for Al Qaeda/ISIS control of an actual state – not the pseudo state currently held in Iraq.

10/12/16 Rajan Menon on the war in Syria

by Scott Horton | Oct 12, 2016 | The Scott Horton Show

Rajan Menon talks with Scott about his article: "US Military Intervention Can’t Save Syria." He gives a detailed discussion about the dynamics at play in Syria and Yemen. What are Turkey’s goals, and how are they related to Syria? Can the US militarily intervene in...

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Anti-War Blog – Be Proud

Proud mother come and see what your soldier sons are doing, see them search crying children who no longer can walk the streets to go from home to school. They kidnap little boys, to torture or imprison. Maybe they shatter their arms and send them on their way. Cry for...

The Culture of Lying and Deceit in the US Army

It's not just the Army and all the services practice this level of institutional cravenness and dishonesty. Deceit and covering up errors is a long time practice in the US uniformed armed forces. The article is older but more true over time. The gravest peril of the...

Manned Tanks: Stop Building These Things

Arguably one of the best manned tanks ever made, the refurbished M1 Abrams is not faring well in the Ukraine and it is estimated the UKR forces have lost 20 of the 31 tanks supplied to them. This is not only a result of inadequate training, immature doctrine and...

Lead-bottom: McHale’s Navy Comes of Age in the 21st Century

USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE-11) 2020 The US Navy continues to go the way of the Royal Navy from a storied force in history to a surface fleet plagued with problems and seemingly incapable of getting anything right as we have documented in these pages at the...

Interview: Biden’s Faux Ceasefire Efforts Facilitate Israel’s Genocide

I discuss the latest news about Israel and the US role in its conflicts with the Palestinians and Hezbollah.

Failing Upward: The USAF and the Woke Circus

Now the excuse for this apartheid memo is "aspirational" but flag officer notions of aspiration become iron law in the ranks below, it is the nature of the military hierarchy. The Supreme Court made this broad-based discrimination in 2022 for officer selection illegal...

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by Jim Bovard

Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...

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