Is NATO (what Ross Douthat calls the second zone of the empire along with the Pacific Rim) also fracturing? If the first zone implodes and the second zone fractures, the third zone (those in the East and the Global South under the boot of the empire) is on […]
Timothy Snyder’s viewpoint is interesting. Of course, he is a Yale academic, and therefore a high priest among the new clerisy, and his main concerns are both preserving the empire and achieving the hegemony of the Blue Tribe within the empire. His main fear is the emergence of […]
By George Allison UK Defense Journal British C-17 transport aircraft are currently moving “light anti-armour” weapons into Ukraine in light of “increasingly threatening” behaviour from Russia. The C-17 transport aircraft are in flight as we speak. CORRECTION 18-1-2022: I had originally claimed that Germany had appeared to have […]
“Can you explain why you are doing this?” “Money.” “Any other reason?” “Money.”
Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Remaking of America’s Empire and The Racket Substack, joins The Realignment to discuss the legacy of General Smedley Butler (the most decorated U.S. Marine in history) through the lens of his involvement […]
By Caitlin Johnstone In a drastic pivot from typical denunciations of false flag operations as conspiratorial nonsense that don’t exist outside the demented imagination of Alex Jones, the US political/media class is proclaiming with one voice that Russia is currently orchestrating just such an operation to justify an […]
By Konstantin Toropin Military.Com The Department of Defense inspector general has begun an audit of how the military is doing at screening out extremists during enlistment, the latest move in a new push to root out the activity, according to a publicly released memo. The watchdog audit comes […]
According to journalist Andrew Cockburn in his latest book, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine, our bloated $778 billion defense budget doesn’t necessarily provide for our safety. Cockburn, the Washington editor of Harper’s, has spent decades covering the Pentagon and defense industry and […]
By Patrick J. Buchanan, LewRockwell.Com After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the breakup of the USSR began. But the dissolution did not stop with the 14 Soviet “republics” declaring their independence of Moscow. Decomposition had only just begun. Transnistria broke away from […]
Richard Hanania breaks down his new book, “Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Manufacturers and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy.”
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Skye Wallin, the director of a new documentary about the late Senator Mike Gravel who stood up against the war machine in multiple Presidential campaigns
By Leah Willingham and Rebecca Santana, Associated Press | NEW ORLEANS — Lawrence N. Brooks, the oldest World War II veteran in the U.S. — and believed to be the oldest man in the country — died on Wednesday at the age of 112. His death was announced […]
By Stephen Marche Foreign Policy A significant portion of Americans seek the destruction of political authority. What if they succeed? The unimaginable has become reality in the United States. Buffoonish mobs desecrating the U.S. Capitol building, tanks parading down the streets of Washington, running battles between protesters and […]
Krystal and Saagar talk to foreign policy expert Richard Hanania about how defense contractors made a fortune off America’s wars and that this money is at the heart of America’s strategy
By Daniel Larison, Antiwar.Com The Soviet Union ceased to exist 30 years ago, and with its disappearance the United States embraced a triumphalist interpretation of the end of the Cold War that has served to fuel its militarism for another generation. The loss of its major rival could […]
–Three retired military generals warn about a coup in 2024 that could involve the military itself
Zac & Gavin react to a surprising poll of the audience of “Breaking Points” hosted by Krystal Ball & Saagar Enjeti
By Dion Nissenbaum, Jessica Donati, and Alan Cullison, Wall Street Journal The U.S. lost its 20-year campaign to transform Afghanistan. Many contractors won big. Those who benefited from the outpouring of government money range from major weapons manufacturers to entrepreneurs. A California businessman running a bar in Kyrgyzstan […]
By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch Professional sports is a cutthroat business. Succeed and the people running the show reap rich rewards. Fail to meet expectations and you get handed your walking papers. American-style war in the 21st century is quite a different matter. Of course, war is not a […]
By Mary Louise Kelly, Noah Caldwell, and Ashish Valentine, National Public Radio As the anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol approaches, three retired U.S. generals have warned that another insurrection could occur after the 2024 presidential election and the military could instigate it. The generals – […]
By Anna Mulrine Grobe Christian Science Monitor When her husband was a Marine Corps sergeant, Bianca Strzalkowski struggled with what, to the couple, felt like a shameful secret: Even on their active-duty military salary, which included a housing allowance, they could not afford enough food and diapers for […]
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff MARJAH, Afghanistan — The tea was hot. The room, oppressive and dusty. And the Taliban commander I sat across from in a bullet-scarred building in southern Afghanistan had tried to kill me a little over a decade ago. As I had tried to kill him. […]
Can’t wait for this to be sold to Moderna so we can “create shareholder value.” It will be given to Big Pharma for free in exchange for a campaign donation.
Of course, all this political fighting does nothing to hurt the people in charge, only the poor, always the poor. “But why didn’t the Afghan government magically stabilize the country after 20 years of being pimped out to the military industrial complex?” The leaders of most major countries […]
By Peter Maass. The Intercept Wartime savagery requires that its perpetrators are told that their actions are acceptable — maybe heroic — and must not cease. My education in wartime savagery started in Bosnia in the 1990s. Reporting on the war, I visited death camps, saw civilians get shot and beaten, interviewed […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the war crimes in Syria hidden by the Pentagon after civilian deaths through drone strikes were covered up
The Week Staff The U.S. cuts its reliance on a rival’s technology. The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: New restrictions on a key dronemaker show how serious the U.S. is about cutting its reliance on Chinese technology, said Bruce Einhorn […]
Carlson is pretty good on Russia but he pushes the Sinophobia to the max. Krystal and Saagar comment on a segment from Tucker Carlson Tonight featuring a guest who expressed a bloodthirsty desire for ‘Chinese skulls’ and a more masculine military
By Joel Kotkin There is a hypocrisy at the heart of the West’s attitude to China: although we’re constantly warned about the threat from Beijing, our political and corporate elites seem intent on making this century a Chinese one. Unlike in the Thirties, this appeasement isn’t driven by […]
Tara Copp, Defense One First update since 2012 adds rules for social-media behavior. Service members could be punished for “liking” extremist content online under a new extension to the Pentagon’s anti-extremism policy that was prompted by the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol. The policy is the […]
By Damon Linker The Week Before this week, I’d never heard of Dmitri Alperovitch or Silverado Policy Accelerator, the nonprofit think tank for which he is co-founder and chair. But Alperovitch is on my radar now, thanks to a viral tweet thread about Russia’s intentions in Ukraine that […]
The Sinophobia of the right-wing seems to be representative of the fact that the uber-imperialists cannot stand the idea that any other state might be able to challenge Anglo-American hegemony on even the most peripheral level. Althought it is true that “woke” ideology is finding its way into […]
Retired Brig. Gen. Steven Anderson speaks with CNN’s Kate Bolduan about his op-ed in the Washington Post in which he and two other retired generals warn that the US military must work to quell unrest within the armed forces to prevent another insurrection from occurring in 2024.
By Jeremy Scahill Intercept “The military threat the U.S. poses to Iran is a key reason why the Iranian nuclear program has expanded,” an analyst said, criticizing the statement. A hawkish gaggle of former U.S. national security officials, lawmakers, and diplomats has launched a public campaign to pressure […]
By Tara Copp, Defense One The “underlying factors are not going away,” says one researcher. The number of people with military backgrounds who committed criminal acts motivated by extremist views has jumped during the last ten years, according to new research at the University of Maryland. Without intervention, […]
By Paul D. Eaton, Antonio M. Taguba and Steven M. Anderson Paul D. Eaton is a retired U.S. Army major general and a senior adviser to VoteVets. Antonio M. Taguba is a retired Army major general, with 34 years of active duty service. Steven M. Anderson is a […]
The USA is like the high school bully that goes around bullying other kids until he finally gets kicked in the balls, which is more or less what has been happening to the US for the past 50 years since the defeat in Southeast Asia. By William P. […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by two authors and foreign policy experts who debate on whether the US should defend Taiwan or not if China were to invade in the near future
By Bonnie Kristian, The Week The war in Afghanistan was the longest in U.S. history. The war in Iraq has killed perhaps as many as a million people. U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition intervention in Yemen’s civil war contributed to the most acute humanitarian crisis on the […]
By Joel Mathis The Week There is no such thing as a “humane” war, much as we might want there to be. The New York Times on Sunday published an exposé of a U.S. military unit called “Talon Anvil,” which was reportedly quite effective at fighting ISIS in Syria […]
By John Nichols, The Nation “Don’t ever tell me we can’t afford to invest in our communities when we just approved $778 billion for the Pentagon,” said California Representative Barbara Lee. Voters gave Democrats control of the White House, the Senate, and the House last year. That should […]
The same self-serving politicians and MSM who convinced us to go to war in Iraq/Libya/Syria, destroying the Middle East, are now trying to convince us that we need to go to war with Russia and destroy Europe—and the United States.
Krystal and Saagar cover the foreign policy decisions being made by the Biden administration to address the growing tensions in Ukraine and America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia
Krystal and Saagar detail the tensions building in Ukraine as Biden meets with Putin and a combination of neocons and Russiagate war hawks gets excited about what could happen
Team Rising discusses whether military action is necessary to counter China’s influence in space.
By Tom O’Connor, Newsweek As crises mount over Ukraine and Taiwan, an unprecedented bond between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping has allowed the United States’ two top rivals to force President Joe Biden into a two-front crisis that could spread his administration too thin […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week An ex-Washington, D.C. National Guard official has accused two senior Army leaders of both lying to Congress and secretly attempting to “rewrite the history of the military’s response to the Capitol riot” in a report he believes worthy of “the best Stalinist or […]
Retired Lt. Col. Daniel Davis shares his thoughts on escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine and what an increased presence of troops at the border means for the United States.
A debate between Alfred McCoy and Peter Zeihan on China, or between McCoy and Bjorn Lomborg on the climate, would be interesting. On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the decline of the American empire and the new global order with Professor Alfred McCoy, who holds the Harrington Chair […]
An interesting new book coming out soon. By Jonathan M. Katz A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power―and how its legacies shape our world today―told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine. Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Bestselling books […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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