Swindlers of Security
The Cold War ended long ago. NATO’s footprint didn’t
Brett Kershaw
Merging the War on Terror with Great Power Competition: The Biden Doctrine
Long before President Joe Biden laid waste to a centerpiece of Washington’s Global War on Terror by ending the war in Afghanistan, the-then chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2003 haughtily stamped his name on another neoconservative machination and steered the late-Bush administration’s push to lie the country into war with Iraq through … Read more
The Attack on the Sacco and Vanzetti Pipelines and Hersh’s Major Allegation
Seymour Hersh, an investigative reporter whose long career has been spent uncovering dark details about the ruling class in the United States, added another emergent piece to his collection with the recent release on his Substack of “How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline.” The allegation is massive in consequence and substance – suggesting … Read more
The Ubiquity of the North Atlantic Alliance
Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is anything but a peon – he’s a drudger, maybe a workhorse, who oftentimes can be found travelling the world delivering news of another notably wasteful arms sale or iterating to us all the reasons why this security boondoggle mustn’t disappear. It’s the life … Read more
Senate Strikes Down Joint Resolution
In a 30-67 vote on Tuesday, the Senate rejected a bipartisan effort to negated President Joe Biden’s $650 million arm sale destined for the Saudi government. Moderate Democrats joined in league with Republicans to denounce the effort. The joint resolution, filed by Senator’s Rand Paul of Kentucky, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Mike Lee of … Read more
The ISIS-K Hawks at the NYT
Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Christina Goldbaum of The New York Times are clinging to platitudes and generalities in their recent report about the threat of ISIS-K in Afghanistan.
Washington Demands Acquiescence in Afghanistan
War and conflict rarely benefit the lives of ordinary people. Indeed, the very nature of war is destructive.
Washington’s Wars: The Killing of Zemari Ahmadi
The US government killed no ISIS-K fighters in its drone strike in Kabul last month. Instead, it killed 10 civilians.
Washington’s Hegemony Perches Over the Horizon
Far away on the frontier of the American empire, thousands of US troops remain surrounding the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
US Empire Finds a Friend in India
On his trip to New Delhi this past week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his band of rabble-rousing State Department officials met with India’s Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
