"The next time you watch a former U.S. commander or senior defense official on television wax about some magic solution to Afghanistan's problems, save yourself the trouble and change the channel. The sustainable stalemate is a myth, nothing more and nothing less." Daniel R. DePetris at Newsweek Four months after President Joe Biden decided to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, a narrative continues to proliferate in the ether that the White House could have simply carried on with the status-quo ante: retaining several thousand U.S. troops and helping the Afghan government...
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America’s COVID Kulaks
"Shut up and submit” is now the favorite COVID cure of some of America’s leading progressives. Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner and New York Times columnist, revealed on Tuesday that since freedom is a mirage, people have no good reason not to comply with endless government commands. Unfortunately, punitive panaceas are increasingly popular among both politicians and pundits. Krugman breezily expunges years of Supreme Court rulings to remove any impediment to forcibly injecting a hundred million Americans with an experimental vaccine. Krugman explains that “when people on the right...
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The Antiwar Comic: What Position?
Hey all! I'm back with some more comics! We never really stopped, but if you want to get caught up this is the next comic below click thru at the Webcomic Factory for the rest. It was interesting doing Antiwar Comics during the Trump era, since he seemed to be trying pretty hard NOT to give us material! Sadly, Biden's giving us plenty. It's great to be...
A Majority of Police Killings in 2020 Began With a Phone Call Mentioning No Crime or Violent Offense
Unless you never turn on the television or go on the internet, then you likely know American police kill hundreds of people every year with impunity. 1,127 — that is the number of lives brought to an end by “peace officers” in the land of the free in 2020. One-thousand, one-hundred, and twenty seven lives taken by the bullets, tasers, vehicles, fists, and knees of American cops. If the governments of other countries were killing their citizens in such large numbers, the United Nations would have declared it a humanitarian crisis. But in the land of the free, it’s policy. Of the 1,127...
Since 2015, American Police Have Killed 1600% More U.S. Citizens Than ‘Mass Shooters’
Tragically, in America, mass shootings—in which murdering psychopaths go on rampages in public spaces—have claimed the lives of 392 people since 2015. While this number is certainly shocking and far too high, during this same time frame, police in America have claimed the lives of 6,571 citizens, according to Mapping Police Violence. That is over 16 times more citizens killed by those sworn to protect and serve than the ones they claim to protect us from. While some of these citizens were armed and dangerous, others were innocent, unarmed, and include small children. Daniel Shaver was one...
Modern Age: “What Character from Creative Literature Would Be The Best Choice For President?”
Modern Age is pleased to offer some relief that nonetheless has a measure of relevance. We asked some twenty of our friends and contributors to weigh in on the best choice for president—but not the best choice on the ballot this November. Instead, we asked them to choose the best character from all of creative literature for the role. The result, we hope, is a symposium that’s diverting and amusing, but that may also reveal something valuable about the nature of presidential leadership and the politics of a free society. It certainly reveals some underlying tendencies in conservative and...
9/25/20 Andrea Prasow on the Deadly Consequences of the US-Saudi War in Yemen
Scott interviews Andrea Prasow about the war crimes and human rights violations being perpetrated by all sides in the war in Yemen. She reminds us that although civilians always suffer the most during war, this war has seen a particularly cruel strategy by the Saudis, supported by the U.S., of deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure and blocking the delivery of food and humanitarian aid. Also unlike most of America's wars, congress has made several attempts to force an end to U.S. involvement, but so far President Trump has blocked them, claiming that our relationship with Saudi...
Re: Oh Yeah, That Oughta Help
Biden is delighted to get support from Cindy McCain - that should motivate the democrats progressive base. After all, McCain was such an honorable man that lived by a code "country first". Now McCain is the new democrat hero - right along side George Bush. People forget how "honorable" McCain was during the Saving and Loan scandal of 1980's. From the Phoenix New Times November 29, 1989 McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five You're John McCain, a fallen hero who wanted to become president so desperately that you sold yourself to Charlie Keating, the wealthy con man who bears...
Televised Brutality: Cops Raid Man’s Home For Benefit of TV Cameras
The controversial reality TV show “Live PD” was recently taken off the air, as the country is beginning to rethink its relationship with police, and how they are being portrayed in the media. Just like the show’s predecessor “COPS,” Live PD has been accused of crossing ethical boundaries in order to get their footage. In one case, the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office in Texas is being accused of intentionally passing up an opportunity to arrest their suspect, Asher Watsky, while he was in court, just so they could raid his home for the television cameras a few hours later. The court...
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