The Old Normal
• https://harpers.org By Andrew J. BacevichWhy we can't beat our addiction to war
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Why we can't beat our addiction to war
It seems apparent that there are moves being made in order to create more conflict down the line. There's always a plan long term in foreign policy and we've seen that emulate in Iran over the past 70 years.
The Constitution was, and is, emphatic on one matter, at least: only Congress possesses the power to declare war. In the 1840s, an era of legislative preeminence, even the high-risk Tyler blanched, aware that the agreement exceeded his authority.
These flimsy, poorly-sourced allegations are being hammered into mainstream liberal consciousness on a daily basis now in the exact same way the discredited Russiagate psyop was, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
The most sacred shibboleth of U.S. foreign interventionists is World War II.
CENTCOM's Kenneth McKenzie supports a very broad mission for America in the Middle East. Is it any wonder we haven't left?
A new report in the major Russian online newspaper Vzglyad, details prospects for the inevitability of war between Egypt and Ethiopia, if not today, then in the future.
"The army reported 126 fraggings in 1969, 271 in 1970 and 333 in 1971, when they stopped keeping count"
Find out the real nature of the weaponry that is already being used in the unfolding Third World War, and the most important real estate in the world over which this war is being fought.
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Documents obtained by The Intercept via the Freedom of Information Act reveal that a Pentagon war game, called the 2018 Joint Land, Air and Sea Strategic Special Program, or JLASS, offered a scenario in which members of Generation Z, driven by malais
Russia has vowed that for each time Washington moved the goal posts in terms of backing off of prior policies of nuclear weapons restraint, it would respond in kind.
The 53rd anniversary of the United States' closest-ever nuclear confrontation event will soon come and go with nary a mention of its significance – certainly not in the "Main Stream Media" (MSM) where it should appear, but probably very littl
A hundred years ago in response to the horror of WWI, the great Randolph Bourne famously pronounced the truth that "War is the Health of the State."
A sad article in the New York Times this week entitled "He Died at War.
It's worth mentioning that all that interventionism in faraway lands ended up destroying the liberty and privacy of the American people, especially with the perpetual "war on terrorism" that interventionism has produced.
'America told us to get over it': black Vietnam veterans hail Spike Lee film that finally tells their story
The Trump administration has quietly ramped up a vicious bombing – and covert raiding – campaign in Somalia amid a global coronavirus pandemic.
I can think of only a single positive thing to say about World War One: It ended. Yet in addition to precluding any further waste of lives, the Armistice of November 1918 and the ensuing Paris Peace Conference did something else.
75 years ago Germany surrendered to allied forces finally ending the ravages of the Second World War.
Announcing Germany's surrender and the end of war in Europe 75 years ago on May 8, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was quick to acknowledge the vital role played by the Soviet Union in the Allied victory over Germany: "Today, perha
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Nazi concentration camp for CHILDREN where boys and girls were tortured, starved and experimented on is brought to life in new detail in chilling computer visualisation
In this video, Luke and Tim break down U.S.-China tensions reaching a whole new level and what this means for the global economy and the potential of a military conflict.
An internal report presented to Chinese President Xi Jinping and other top leaders concludes that global anti-China sentiment is at a level not seen since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, and recommends preparing for a worst-case scenario of arme
When Francis Scott Key wrote the words "the land of the free and the home of the brave" in 1814, he did so in a poem called "The Defense of Fort McHenry." The battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore was a decisive one in which Americans truly dem
I'm talking about false flag events that warmongering politicians have used to authorize U.S. military aggression and unjust war around the world and gross miscarriages of justice in violent despotic assaults against American citizens inside the Un
"The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable," Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China, which you can watch free on Youtube h
All truth-tellers are denounced, and most end up destroyed. Truth seldom serves the agendas of powerful interests.