American Militarism Marches On: No Discussion or Media Coverage of Washington’s War Against the World

Nearly everyone has heard the comment attributed for former Clinton consigliere Rahm Emanuel that one should never let a good crisis go to waste. The implication of the comment is that if there is a major crisis going on the cover it provides permits one to do all sorts of things under the radar that would otherwise be unacceptable. … Read More >American Militarism Marches On: No Discussion or Media Coverage of Washington’s War Against the World

What They Are Not Talking About: War and Peace, Healthcare and Jobs Are Non-Issues

Watching the network news on television or reading about current events in the newspapers seemingly transports one to an alternate universe where nothing seems to make sense. The profit driven news cycle in the United States is admittedly a poor mechanism for actually gaining an understanding of what is going on … Read More >What They Are Not Talking About: War and Peace, Healthcare and Jobs Are Non-Issues

The Afghanistan Fiasco and the Decline and Fall of the American Military

A devastating investigative report was published in the Washington Post on December 9th. Dubbed the “Afghanistan Papers” in a nod to the Vietnam War’s famous “Pentagon Papers,” the report relied on thousands of documents to similarly expose how the US government at the presidential level … Read More >The Afghanistan Fiasco and the Decline and Fall of the American Military