“Unipolar” used to mean that the United States was, at least in theory, alone in leading the world. Now “unipolar” means that the United States is alone and isolated in opposition to the world. In global affairs, a hegemon is a nation that leads because it has the...
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Ha’aretz: Will No One Rid Us of This Horrible Prime Minister?
by Scott Horton | Mar 26, 2024 | Blog
The Likud is running Israel into the grave with a lot of their Palestinian victims. Well, Ukraine has lost millions of people to emigration during the current war. Maybe the Israelis can go and create and ethno-exclusivist state there. I hear they're really into that...
What Is ‘Extremism’?
by Owen Ashworth | Mar 25, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Amidst protests in the United Kingdom that have been going on since October 7, there have been multiple allegations of extemists among the protestors intimidating, harassing, and scaring innocent people who are not involved in the demonstrations. It seems that even...
CIA Further Discredits ‘Uyghur Genocide’ by Admitting Covert Influence Campaign
by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 21, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 14, Reuters released a bombshell report: in 2019 the Donald Trump White House began a clandestine CIA influence campaign to smear China's international reputation. According to three former U.S. officials with direct knowledge, “the CIA created a small team...
Pentagon Still Open to US Troops in Haiti
by Will Porter | Mar 20, 2024 | News
A senior US military official said the Pentagon has not yet ruled out an American deployment to Haiti, which has seen a spike in violent unrest that prompted the resignation of the country’s prime minister last week.
The World’s Worst Hypocrites
by Scott Horton | Mar 20, 2024 | Blog
Just as the UK courts are deciding on Julian Assange's last appeal before he is extradited to the United States and prosecuted for espionage for RECEIVING and PUBLISHING classified information, in direct violation of the First Amendment and the government's own...
The Principled Cannot Convince the Irrational
by Kym Robinson | Mar 20, 2024 | Featured Articles
No matter how brutal an event, there will be those who can justify, rationalize, or spin a positive narrative. Real and imagined injustices inspire reactions that lead to more injustice, creating a spiral of revenge. Or a group can decide that it is superior,...
The TikTok Totalitarians
by Dan McAdams | Mar 20, 2024 | Featured Articles
On Wednesday, March 13th, a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives voted to give the U.S. president the power to remove any website, computer or mobile application, or even service provider that the president determines—without due process—is run by “a person...
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The Emperor Has No Clothes: Stealth Technology is Sexy and Useless
On 27 March 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a Yugoslav Army unit (3rd Battalion of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade, which was under the leadership of Colonel Zoltán Dani) shot down an F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft of the United States Air Force...
High on State Power: The Tragic Death of Matthew Perry and the Evil of the War on Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brAsC_MEAxY&list=PLKjJE86mQRtsUs-GDEnmtxSyJmf1ueF_5&index=1&t=1s On Oct. 28, 2023, beloved actor Matthew Perry was found dead in the hot tub at his Los Angeles home. Cause of death was ruled “acute effects of ketamine” and...
Sig P320/M17/18: MILSPEC is Overrated
A negligent discharge (ND) in a weapon is when the operator strokes the trigger that results in the firing of the weapon. In my time, the lion's share of these are NDs but actual mechanical (unintentional, accidental or "uncommanded") discharges were rare and then the...
Bang for Your Buck: Breaking the Bank to Upgrade the Nuclear Arsenal (Part II)
In Part I, I discussed and critiqued an overview of the new efforts to update the US nuclear arsenal. Here, we'll chat (again) about the Sentinel which is the improved replacement for the aging Minuteman III ICBM and it is already in trouble with the schedule sliding...
Company Men: Former Spies Spill The Tea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElMSJDkqSYQ&t=3757s Danny Jones recently hosted former CIA officers John Kiriakou and Andrew Bustamente for a wide-ranging discussion that touched on torture, 9/11 & terrorism, domestic politics, foreign policy and what it’s...
Bang for Your Buck: Breaking the Bank to Upgrade the Nuclear Arsenal (Part I)
The United States is on track to spend the equivalent of more than two Manhattan projects per year in one of the most expensive nuclear arms races in history. The US has not done a recorded air breathing nuclear detonation since 1992 (the last US test, Julin-Divider,...
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