Gabbard: Washington elites are in the pockets of the military industrial complex
2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard assesses President Biden’s handling of Russian threat to invade Ukraine.
US Sends More Military Equipment to Ukraine
By Marcus Weisgerber and Tara Copp Defense One Latest deliveries to arrive today as DOD searches its inventory for more to send. The U.S. is expected to deliver more defense equipment to Ukraine today to counter Russia’s rapid escalation of military and diplomatic moves along the Ukrainian border, […]
If Russia did invade: How far would the West go to support Ukraine?
How strong is the West’s resolve when it comes to Ukraine? A steady diet of diplomacy so far failing to lift the uncertainty over Vladimir Putin’s true intentions when it comes to those 100-thousand troops amassed at the border.
WATCH: Chilling Video Of Pentagon’s CIVILIAN Drone Strike
Krystal and Saagar comment on the new video showing a US drone strike killing a family of innocent civilians in Afghanistan that the Pentagon tried to cover up
Biden Promises More Troops In Poland, Romania If Russia Invades Ukraine
By Jacqueline Feldscher, Senior National Security Correspondent, Defense One The United States will boost its troop presence in eastern NATO members such as Poland and Romania if Russia sends more forces into Ukraine, President Joe Biden said Wednesday. Biden shot down the idea that his administration would withdraw […]
US Provides Military Assistance to 73 Percent of World’s Dictatorships
By Rich Whitney, Truthout For decades, the American people have been repeatedly told by their government and corporate-run media that acts of war ordered by their president have been largely motivated by the need to counter acts of aggression or oppression by “evil dictators.” We were told we […]
SPLIT IN NATO AS GERMANY “BLOCKS” MILITARY FLIGHTS FROM U.K. TO UKRAINE
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 […]
Yale history professor Timothy Snyder told Insider he fears American democracy may not survive another Trump campaign
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 […]
British military aircraft rapidly supplying weapons to Ukraine
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 […]
Senator FACEPLANTS Defending Giving Saudi Arabia Weapons
“Can you explain why you are doing this?” “Money.” “Any other reason?” “Money.”
Reckoning with American Empire + Debating “War Is a Racket”
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 […]
False Flags Suddenly No Longer A Crazy Conspiracy Theory
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 […]
Watchdog to Audit Military’s Screening for Extremists at Enlistment
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 […]
What’s behind our soaring military budget, with journalist Andrew Cockburn and Marianne Williamson
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 […]
Where Does NATO Enlargement End?
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 […]
How Militarists HIJACKED US foreign policy, enriched themselves off forever wars
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.”
How Mike Gravel FOUGHT The Military-Industrial Complex
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
Oldest US Veteran of WWII, Lawrence N. Brooks, Dies at 112
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 […]
Why the U.S. Military Isn’t Ready for Civil War
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 […]
Exposing the Greedy BASTARDS Running US Foreign Policy
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
US Militarism Should Have Died With the Soviet Union
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 […]
Military Generals Warn: 2024 Military Coup
–Three retired military generals warn about a coup in 2024 that could involve the military itself
SHOCK: Breaking Points’ Audience is Surprisingly PRO-WAR with China??
Zac & Gavin react to a surprising poll of the audience of “Breaking Points” hosted by Krystal Ball & Saagar Enjeti
Who Won in Afghanistan? Private Contractors
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 […]
The US military can’t get the job done, and the problem starts at the top
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 […]
Retired general warns the U.S. military could lead a coup after the 2024 election
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 – […]
Food insecurity rises in US military ranks. So does honesty about it.
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 […]
11 Years After Trying to Kill Each Other, a Marine and a Talib Meet Again
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. […]
US Army Creates Vax That Works Against ALL Covid Variants
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.
GRAPHIC: Afghans STARVING Due To US Sanctions
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 […]
The U.S. Military Is a Machine of Impunity
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 […]
EXPOSED: Mass War Crimes In Syria Covered Up By Pentagon
Krystal and Saagar cover the war crimes in Syria hidden by the Pentagon after civilian deaths through drone strikes were covered up
Drone wars: U.S. imposes new sanctions on China
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 […]
Tucker Guest THIRSTS For ‘Chinese Skulls’ |
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
Western Greed Fuels China’s Domination
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 […]
Click ‘Like’, Get Punished Under Pentagon’s New Anti-Extremism Policy
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 […]
How should the U.S. respond to the coming Russian invasion of Ukraine?
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 […]
Tucker Guest Wants To ‘Sit On A Thrown Of Chinese Skulls’ |
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 general explains rationale behind ominous op-ed
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.
Two Former CIA Directors Call on Biden to Threaten Iran Militarily
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 […]
At Least 458 U.S. Crimes Tied to Extremism Involved Veterans, Active Duty Troops
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, […]
3 retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection
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 […]
Enemies America Made And How To Make Friends Again
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. […]
AUTHORS DEBATE: Should US Defend Taiwan Or Not?
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
Americans are dangerously casual about war with Russia and China
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 […]
War can never be ‘humane’
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 […]
“Shameful”: The Democratic-Led House Approves a Massive Military Spending Bill
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 […]
Same warmongers at it again
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.
Biden’s DANGEROUS Foreign Policy On Ukraine, Saudi Arabia
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
NEOCONS Beat War Drum As Biden Talks Ukraine With Putin
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
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