Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: The US military has seven branches of service: Army Navy Air Force Marines Coast Guard Space Force Mainstream Media ❖ It’s hard to grasp just how badly humanity is handicapping itself by excluding all solutions that can’t generate […]
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right The September issue of the Marine Corps Gazette includes an article for which there has been a long-standing need, namely an accurate recounting of the history of maneuver warfare’s evolution into official Marine Corps doctrine. Written under the pen name Marinus as […]
By Marcus Weisgerber, Defense One, Global Business Editor Trade groups representing defense companies large and small are pushing lawmakers to add tens of billions of dollars to the Pentagon’s budget to make up for months of high inflation that is only now starting to level off. One group, […]
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by Peter Zeihan on September 12, 2022 The Russia military position in Ukraine is collapsing so quickly that…words are inadequate.
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Numerous Syrian and foreign militants have reportedly been killed and several US troops injured in an escalating exchange of attacks between the American invaders and the people in the country whose territory they are illegally occupying. On Tuesday […]
There is an interesting discussion of the European theater about 30 minutes into this as well with Randi Nord of Geopolitics Alert. Watch here. Live on Radio Sputnik with Jamarl Thomas and Manila Chan.
The Mindcrime Liberty Show is joined by Keith Preston to discuss whether war is popular. War seems to be popular amongst a variety of classes, sectors and worldviews throughout time and places, especially in modernity or bourgeois society. Whether war was more or less common before the 1800s […]
By Phil Klay The rumor was he’d killed an Iraqi soldier with his bare hands. Or maybe bashed his head in with a radio. Something to that effect. Either way, during inspections at Officer Candidates School, the Marine Corps version of boot camp for officers, he was the Sergeant […]
Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern Shares His Take on US Foreign Policy Towards China and Russia Will the United States sleepwalk itself into a nuclear conflict with Russia and China? José Niño sat down with ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern to talk about the dangerous “Great Power” foreign policy pivot […]
Correction. In fact, the Soviet tank T-34 was absolutely revolutionary for its time. The low central placement of the engine allowed to position the armoured front panel and side boards not vertically, like in all German tanks, but under sharp angles, which enhanced their resistance to a direct […]
Military expert, retired Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, and executive vice president at the Quincy Institute For Responsible Statecraft, Dr. Trita Parsi, debate what went wrong in the United States’ exit from Afghanistan, one year after the withdrawal.
When the military splits along political and other tribal lines, the system is finished. The Soldiers Project Knowing whether the majority of the military is conservative is an important insight not only in the niche topic of the military but also in other areas of life, such as […]
By Michael P. Noonan A mercenary linked to a Nigerian intervention force holds his AK-47 rifle pointed toward Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, on Jan. 7, 1999. Fighting had been raging between the rebels and government forces for past two days, a battle that included foreign […]
The Conversation Less than a month after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin took the extraordinary step of pausing all operations for 24 hours to “address extremism in the ranks.” Pentagon officials had been shaken by service members’ prominent […]
By Alan Bickley, Free Life In 2003, most opposition to the Iraq War was confined to the argument that intervention there would do no good to the people of Iraq or in the intervening countries. This soon turned out to be a true argument, and those of us […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to an unreleased resignation Gen. Mark Milley wrote to former President Donald Trump after the incident in Lafayette Square.
LONDON (Reuters) – More than 450 foreign-made components have been found in Russian weapons recovered in Ukraine, evidence that Moscow acquired critical technology from companies in the United States, Europe and Asia in the years before the invasion, according to a new report by Royal United Services Institute […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: During the furor over Nancy Pelosi’s incendiary Taiwan visit last week, I was watching an appearance by Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp on the show Rising which brought up the under-discussed point that US officials going to Taipei is […]
Is the United States prepared for escalating tensions with China over Taiwan that might genuinely lead to actual war? Former Defense Department advisor Col. Douglas MacGregor tells Tucker Carlson the answer is a decided “no,” and yet the United States seems determined to bumble our way into a […]
The United States Senate has voted 95-1-1 to approve the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO, further engorging the ever-growing “defensive” alliance – this despite the fact that NATO was formed as a pact among nations to protect one another from the Soviet Union, a country that […]
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Research director at the American Economic Liberties Project, Matt Stoller, breaks down the mentality inside ‘the blob’ and how the military-industrial complex sabotages itself from the inside.
Expanding NATO is code word for senators and Congress people becoming millionaires on the sales of weapons.
Murica is the guy who lives in a fortress protected by dozens of tanks and armored vehicles. Behind thick reinforced walls patrolled by hundred of soldiers, hiding inside a fortified shelter full of firearms and ammunitions with an escape to an undergroud bunker and still thinks he is […]
By Thaddeus Russell, Reason (St. Martin’s Press) Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire, by Jonathan M. Katz, Macmillan, 432 pages, $29.99 The legend of Smedley Butler has sustained the American antiwar movement for nearly a century. A Marine commander […]
“If this America First then America is fucked!”
By John Carter I’m gonna preface this piece with the giant caveat emptor that I am not a military analyst, a geopolitical strategist, a political economist, or even much of an armchair warlord. I know a bit more than the average guy, I think, but there’s a lot […]
By Jose Alberto Nino During the “America First” summit this week in D.C., Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) passionately demanded “that we absolutely annihilate the Russian forces, and we get them to crawl back into Russia so bloody and bruised that they can’t come back.” At the same summit, […]
Reuters A South Korean soldier in a K2 Black Panther tank takes up a position during a military exercise in Yangpyeong in 2015. Seoul has greatly boosted its defense exports in recent years. | REUTERS SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s biggest ever arms deal will make it a […]
By Rod Dreher, The American Conservative Why fight for a social order that thinks law-abiding, church-going, palefaced right-wingers are the problem with America? Now others are noticing that a woke military that makes culture war on its own people and their traditions is not an institution that those […]
A live debate at PorcFest, in Lancaster, New Hampshire. https://reason.com/video/2022/07/06/s… Should the U.S. give full military and political support to Ukraine in its war with Russia, short of sending troops? That was the subject of a Soho Forum debate held on Thursday, June 23, at the Porcupine Freedom […]
Senior fellow and military expert at Defense Priorities Daniel Davis weighs in on Russia’s decision to turn to Iran to boost their weapons arsenal.
Bill Lind has two new articles discussing his current book, which predicts a future global war between an alliance of states, and non-state actors. I would add to this that there is likely to be a more widespread fracturing of states along ethnic, cultural, religious, political, and economic […]
On June 11, 2016, during the Bundeswehr’s Open Day at Hohn Air Base in Germany, a Transall C-160 cargo aircraft executed a maneuver that was risky enough under normal circumstances, let alone during wartime. And it was all caught on camera. The Sarajevo approach, otherwise known as combat […]
Krystal and Saagar talk to Puck News journalist Tara Palmeri about how the Pentagon used mind control experiments on young troops and lied about the long lasting consequences of the project
France and Germany and the EU generally need to take over the leadership of NATO and work on marginalizing US and UK influence in the alliance over time. A defensive alliance among the European countries would be legitimate because those are individually small countries, and Russia has a […]
Krystal and Saagar demonstrate how the media manufactures consent on wars with an eye on the differences in coverage between the Russian invasion of Ukraine and US invasion of Iraq
The first chapter of the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway RADICAL PEACE presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our warrior culture. This chapter describes helping a soldier to desert. “That must be them.” Petra […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to President Biden’s promise to provide over $1.2 billion in security and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Krystal and Saagar scrutinize the decision by Biden to send $1 billion more in military aid to Ukraine after repeated requests from Zelensky for immediate assistance with battling the Russians
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss the impact of US sanctions against Russia on inflation, and react to the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.
Krystal and Saagar provide viewers an update about the Ukraine war against Russia in the Donbas region and how US intel has no idea what Ukraine is doing with American weapons and funding
Krystal and Saagar scrutinize the former top general under investigation for illegal lobbying for the Qatar government during his time as President of influential DC think tank Brookings Institution
Publisher of Nonzero Newsletter, Robert Wright, breaks down the cultural and policy impacts of hawkish lobbying by the profit-driven defense industry.
More or less my perspective as well. NATO was originally created after WW2 to prevent further Soviet expansion into Western Europe. The Soviets and their satellites already controlled most of the Eurasian landmass at the time, and the remaining Western European countries had been laid to waste by […]
By Jose Alberto Nino Crisis moments in politics tend to be moments of clarity. They demonstrate who are our friends and who are our enemies. Those who hate the color red today will scoff at the same color once their opponents start to wear it. Whether the topic […]
Krystal and Saagar look at the response to the US Marine Corp posting an image of a helmet with rainbow bullets for pride month
Below is an old article from the Los Angeles Times in 1986 discussing how the majority of both parties in Congress opposed Reagan’s Central America policy, arming of the Saudi regime, and efforts to undermine detente with the USSR. Nowadays, no one in Congress would oppose any of […]
By Fiona Harrigan, Reason It signals that many in Congress still condemn America’s role in the war and actions from the president that lack proper authorization. Members of the House introduced a resolution yesterday that would help end U.S. military involvement in the Yemeni Civil War if passed. […]
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