Month: October 2017

Antiwar.com found that at least 1,649 people were killed and 647 were wounded in violent activity during October

Stand at attention! The flag and its song now chime amidst the sky’s red glare. Hats to our chest, we stand in ‘democratic’ subordination to the king and its symbols… Is it just simply the Defense Department’s dollars and the human proclivity toward the adoration of power – when an entity representing a certain group … Continue reading “American Military Worship: Beyond the Pentagon’s Pervasive Advertising”

As the recent PBS documentary on the American War in Vietnam acknowledged, few American officials ever believed that the United States could win the war, neither those advising Johnson as he committed hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, nor those advising Nixon as he escalated a brutal aerial bombardment that had already killed millions of … Continue reading “How America Spreads Global Chaos”

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Honestly, if there’s an afterlife, then the soul of Osama bin Laden, whose body was consigned to the waves by the U.S. Navy back in 2011, must be swimming happily with the dolphins and sharks. At the cost of the sort of spare change that Donald Trump recently offered aides and … Continue reading “Doing Bin Laden’s Bidding”

A Kurdish journalist was killed. Operations against the Islamic State militants have stalled due to weather.

Does anyone in the Trump Administration have a clue about our Syria policy? In March, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appeared to be finally pulling back from President Obama’s disastrous “Assad must go” position that has done nothing but prolong the misery in Syria. At the time, Tillerson said, the "longer-term status of President Assad … Continue reading “Neocons Hijack Trump’s Syria Policy”

It was summer 1963 when a senior official of CIA’s operations directorate treated our Junior Officer Trainee (JOT) class to an unbridled rant against President John F. Kennedy. He accused JFK, among other things, of rank cowardice in refusing to send U.S. armed forces to bail out Cuban rebels pinned down during the CIA-launched invasion … Continue reading “The Deep State’s JFK Triumph Over Trump”

Islamic State is in fatal decline. The Middle East will soon enter a new era, post-Islamic State, dominated by the Saudi-Iranian power struggle. The struggle will, as it has as it ran alongside the fight against Islamic State, involve shifting Sunni and Shiite allegiances. But the fight is not about religion. Religion this time has … Continue reading “The Next Middle East War, Post-ISIS”

Demonstrators stormed the Kurdish Parliament building after President Barzani announced his resignation.

If you didn’t believe the Deep State is beyond democratic control before, you now have no choice – not after the last minute mugging the Donald received on his way to releasing these ancient JFK assassination files. And believe us, they are indeed ancient. Your editor was sitting in high school civics class learning about … Continue reading “The JFK Files and the Real Conspiracy Against the Truth”