Two Trillion Dollars... Pretty soon, we're talking real money. So we put this in perspective: Two trillion U.S. dollars in $100 notes would be 1,356 miles high. If they were one dollar bills, it would be 135,600 miles high (the moon is 238,900 miles from Earth)....
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New Hampshire GOP Adds ‘Defend the Guard’ to Party Platform
by Michael Granger | Apr 17, 2024 | Blog
With a resounding "Aye," Defend the Guard was made an official part of the New Hampshire Republican Party platform. On Saturday, April 13, the New Hampshire GOP held a meeting to vote on platform amendments. Among the list of proposals was the following text: "Demand...
Failure Follies: The US Navy Continues the Race to the Bottom
by Bill Buppert | Apr 16, 2024 | Blog
The collapse of western martial civilization is sticking to its schedule. The Wasp class LHD, USS Boxer, has suffered yet another engineering casualty. On this, the Navy delivers with a spectacularly consistent track record of failure with the Little Crappy Ships, the...
The F35: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
by Bill Buppert | Apr 15, 2024 | Blog
“Soon after publication ‘Superiority’ was inserted into the Engineering curriculum of MIT, to warn the graduates that the Better is often the enemy of the Good, and the Best can be the enemy of both, as it is always too late.” - Arthur C. Clarke Superiority by Arthur...
A Home into a House
by Kym Robinson | Apr 9, 2024 | Blog
It’s a modest house, a unit trapped inside of a suburb within a suburb. Mostly elderly live here. A woman in her late seventies greets me, “I’m Rosanne, the neighbour.” She takes me through the house and shows me what needs to be carried out. Heavy furniture and the...
News Roundup 3/29/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 29, 2024 | News Roundup
Russia Russia Says Moscow Terrorist Attack Has Connection to ‘Ukrainian Nationalists’ AWC NYT: US Didn’t Give Russia All the Information It Had About Moscow Terrorist Plot AWC China Philippine President Vows ‘Response’ to China’s Actions in South China Sea AWC Israel...
‘Absolutely Shocking’ – UN Official Describes Children’s Ward at North Gaza Hospital
by Scott Horton | Mar 28, 2024 | Blog
From the Palestine Chronicle: A UN official has described the situation in the children’s ward at the Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza where at least 15 children have died as a result of starvation, as “absolutely shocking.” “I went there because that was the...
Israel – Backed by the U.S.A. – Is the Most Criminal Regime On the Planet
by Scott Horton | Mar 21, 2024 | Blog
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Anti-War Blog – Pointless Wars are Tradition
Over a decade ago, the US and Western nations would feign concern for the loss of innocent life while they waged a war. Terms such as Collateral or Unintentional would be thrown around, even when all evidence points in the opposite direction. There was a need for...
Taliban Defeats Five American Presidents
GEN McChrystal was a martial disaster. What wrong looks like… This is what happens when your architects fall in love with their processes so much they forget about the objective. Military students should really study why graduate-level white papers, PowerPoint slides,...
Understanding the Nativist new-Right
There is a surge among the liberal democracies towards a nativist conservatism. The United States experienced the lie of Donald Trump’s MAGA and the misplaced promise of an America First, once a dirty word, now a salvation for not only the war wracked planet but the...
Rules for Radicals: Of Means and Ends
John and I continue reading and commentary of Rules for Radicals.
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Tulsi Breaks Her Silence Says YES, WAR WITH IRAN! JOE KENT RESIGNS Say Iran NO THREAT
Joe Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, has resigned in protest over the Iran war, becoming the first senior official to break ranks. In his resignation, Kent stated bluntly that Iran posed no “imminent threat” to the United States — directly...
The Sun Always Sets on the Royal Navy
One of four SLBMs are operational. One of two carriers is operational. Two of seven destroyers are operational. On and on. The Argentinians need to make a deal with Iran for oil, to keep the British busy in the Maldives; then they'll finally have the islands. Luxury...











