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American Empathy Gap: Massacres in Gaza and US Silence

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Apr 17, 2018

For a writer, any criticism of Israeli military action is a veritable "third-rail" in American politics. Touch that nerve and you’re open to charges of anti-Semitism or worse. Still, recent events in Gaza demand that some of us, at least, shed light on the...

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US Should Do the Opposite of What Saudis Want

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Apr 14, 2018

This article originally appeared at TruthDig. Consider the irony: The United States, which bills itself as the world’s beacon of freedom, has for some 70 years allied itself with one of the last absolute monarchies on the planet. Time and again, Washington has...

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Circle of Absurdity: Killing the Islamists We Create

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Apr 10, 2018

The U.S. military remains mired in countless wars in the Greater Middle East. Ironically – and tragically – it tends to combat Islamists that Washington either armed or birthed. We, Americans, truly are a strange lot. Our government in Washington – ostensibly...

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Cleaning House, Enabling War

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) and Tom Engelhardt | Apr 6, 2018

Originally posted at TomDispatch. His appointment was a genuine Bolton from the blue (so to speak). After all, everyone knew that former U.N. Ambassador (and Fox News commentator) John Bolton couldn’t be chosen for a major post in the Trump administration. No,...

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Unbridgeable Gap: Who We Were and Who We Thought We Were

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Apr 3, 2018

"War is just a racket... I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service…during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster...

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Where Have You Gone, George McGovern?

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Mar 29, 2018

This article originally appeared at TruthDig. He knew war well—well enough to know he hated it. George McGovern was a senator from South Dakota, and he was a Democrat true liberals could admire. Though remembered as a staunch liberal and foreign policy dove,...

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The March We Need: A March for Peace… or, at least, De-Escalation

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Mar 27, 2018

Students march for gun control; women march for a variety of causes, and, well, against anything Trump; but who is marching for less American war in the Greater Middle East? Why? Why isn't there a passionate coalition willing to combat the American war machine? A...

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Trump, 14 EU Nations Expel Russian Diplomats and Recall Ambassadors

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Mar 26, 2018

Why a new Cold War? Why now? This morning, Americans awoke to news that the supposedly Russia-supplicant Trump administration, along with 14 other EU nations, will expel scores of Russian diplomats. The announcement, which Russia called a "provocative...

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Illegal Wars: The New American Way

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Mar 24, 2018

This article originally appeared at TruthDig. [T]he President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on...

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Wake-Up Call: Damaged Vets, Unnecessary War, and the Price We Pay

by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) | Mar 22, 2018

"If you don’t care for obscenity, you don’t care for the truth; if you don’t care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty." ~ Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (1990) Violence begets violence. The empire, it...

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