Daydream Believers: James Risen’s Pay Any Price
November 23, 2014
Originally posted at TomDispatch. The money should stagger you. Journalist James Risen, author of Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, a revelatory new book about the scammers, counterterrorism grifters, careerist bureaucrats, torture con artists, and on-the-make privatizers of our post-9/11 national security state, suggests that the best figure for money spent on Washington’s […]
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Bitcoin Can Help Curb the War Machine
November 20, 2014
Here is a short YouTube describing how using Bitcoin instead of fiat currency can help stop financing the War Machine as well as promoting global trade and good relations. For more information on Bitcoin, check out Roger Ver’s talk on Bitcoin and how it can stop the federal government’s ability to conduct war in this […]
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How Many ISIS Fighters Are There?
November 18, 2014
Why was I reminded of Vietnam on Saturday when Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Iraq to “get a firsthand look at the situation in Iraq, receive briefings, and get better sense of how the campaign is progressing” against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL? For years […]
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Amid Growing US War Failures, Officials Mock ISIS ‘Midgets’
November 17, 2014
The US war against ISIS couldn’t be going much worse. ISIS continues to gain in Iraq, despite soaring US ground deployments into the nation, and the Syria air war has backfired so bad its wiped out most of the US allies, and brought al-Qaeda, once an ISIS rival, into a partnership with them. The administration […]
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Redefining ‘Imminent’
November 17, 2014
How the U.S. Department of Justice Makes Murder Respectable, Kills the Innocent and Jails their Defenders Political language can be used, George Orwell said in 1946, “to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” In order to justify its global assassination program, the Obama administration […]
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Ron Paul on Boots on the Ground
November 15, 2014
President Obama has ordered 1500 more troops to Iraq, doubling down on the U.S. presence already there. And while the question of the constitutionality of this move in the absence of a war declaration is an important one, Ron Paul reminds us that the question of the morality of the war should be confronted even […]
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It Was Staged! Video of Syrian Boy Saving Girl Under Fire Was Shot in Malta
November 14, 2014
It was a great video. It shows the young boy, about 8 years old, weave his way down a dusty street, dodging bullets to reach a terrified girl cowering behind a car. The boy even plays dead at one point to deceive the sharpshooters, who miss hitting both children as they appear to safely run […]
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When Thatcher Got Testy With Reagan — Over Grenada
November 14, 2014
Maggie Thatcher may have been a staunch Cold Warrior, but she wasn’t too thrilled about Ronald Reagan’s invasion of the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada, where ultra-leftists had assassinated the pro-Cuban leader, Maurice Bishop. After all, Grenada, in spite of its leftist government, was still a member of the British Commonwealth, and Maggie hadn’t been […]
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Justin Raimondo Talks to Rare About Rand Paul
November 13, 2014
Antiwar.com editorial director Justin Raimondo spoke with Rare’s Kurt Wallace about Rand Paul and the prospects for war and peace in electoral politics. The 11-minute audio interview and transcript are available here.
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Conscription, History, and Why It Matters
November 11, 2014
In a modern era of global military empire, mass indiscriminate NSA data-grabbing, and unaccountable killer cops, an age-old issue vital to liberty is often overlooked or forgotten: that of conscription. On this Veterans’ Day, while most solemnly reflect on the valiant service of their fathers, uncles, and grandfathers in one of the many blood-soaked American […]
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