See here where the new general in charge of the war claims that al Qaeda has free reign "across Afghanistan." Consider this obvious lie to be a full frontal assault by the U.S. Army against the president of the United States of America and his mandate to Zalmay...
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Do Iranian ‘Threats’ Signal Organized U.S.-Israel Subterfuge?
by Gareth Porter | May 23, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President Donald Trump’s national security team has been leaking “intelligence” about Iranian threats for a week now in an attempt to justify escalating tensions, including moving American air attack assets to the Persian Gulf. But a closer look suggests that National...
CIA, State, Defense Officials Debunk Mike Pompeo’s Lies About Iran and Al Qaeda
by Scott Horton | May 22, 2019 | Blog
Via the properly outraged Daniel Larison, Time hosts a pack of dissenters: The small number of senior members of bin Laden’s now scattered group who remain in Iran are there with the government’s permission, although some of them have been under virtual house arrest,...
5/17/19 Jason Hartwig on Negotiating With Al-Shabaab in Somalia
by Scott Horton | May 19, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Jason Hartwig about how to end the civil war in Somalia, where he recommends negotiating with Al-Shabaab as the best chance for peace. Like other countries where the U.S. military is involved, a decisive victory by one side might not be realistic, and...
Picking a Fight With Iran: Why Pretend Any Longer?
by Scott Horton | May 17, 2019 | Blog
A "U.S. official" tells the Times, "the ultimate goal of the yearlong economic sanctions campaign by the Trump administration was to draw Iran into an armed conflict with the United States."
Finally Pelosi says something that makes sense
by Steven Woskow | May 15, 2019 | Blog
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that the U.S. must avoid war with Iran, and she declared the White House has “no business” moving toward a Middle East confrontation without approval from Congress.
Did Iran Kill 600 Americans in Iraq War II?
by Scott Horton | May 8, 2019 | Blog
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claims that Iran killed 600 Americans during Iraq War II. The syllogism goes, Iran supplied EFP bombs to Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army, they then used those bombs on U.S. troops. Ergo "Iran," meaning the ayatollah and his government,...
The Future of Military Technology is Intense
by Steven Woskow | May 6, 2019 | Blog
But the future of the human race is in doubt. The Science of war is looking more like science fiction. Technologies that were once confined to the fevered dreams of Hollywood sci-fi directors are becoming commonplace throughout projections of tomorrows military:...
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Human Rights Watch: Yes, Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza
A growing body of legal experts and international humanitarian organizations have concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
What Corporatism Actually Is
"The fundamental idea both of guild socialism and of corporativism is that every branch of business forms a monopolistic body, the guild or corporazione. This entity enjoys full autonomy; it is free to settle all its internal affairs without interference of external...
The Pause That Refreshes
I will be spending the holidays with my children and grandchildren at an undisclosed bunker location in the inland Rocky Mountain west and off the 'net until the new year when I will resume blogging at the Institute... Since I paused Chasing Ghosts and started...
Good Plan Means My Plan
"All this passionate praise of the supereminence of government action is but a poor disguise for the individual interventionist’s self-deification. The great god State is a great god only because it is expected to do exclusively what the individual advocate of...
Who Needs What?
"[I]t is evident ... that the man, who first made himself clothes and built himself a cabin, supplied himself with things which he did not much want, since he had lived without them till then; and why should he not have been able to support in his riper years, the...
Whose Plan?
"The alternative is not plan or no plan. The question is whose planning? Should each member of society plan for himself, or should a benevolent government alone plan for them all? The issue is not automatism versus conscious action; it is autonomous action of each...
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