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Tag Archives: Afghanistan
War Profiteers and the Demise of the US Military-Industrial Complex
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov Within the vast bureaucratic sprawl of the Pentagon there is a group in charge of monitoring the general state of the military-industrial complex and its continued ability to fulfill the requirements of the national … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Oligarchy, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Arms Trade, BAE Systems, Boeing, DARPA, Defense Contractors, Defense Spending, EBITDA, General Dynmics, geopolitics, INDPOL, Iran, Lockheed Martin, military-industrial complex, North Korea, Northrop Grumman, Nuclear Weapons, Raytheon, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, The Pentagon, Turkey, US DOD, war, War Criminals, war profiteers, Yemen
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The Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan: Is Community Engagement the Key?
By Robert J. Burrowes I have just read a superb book by Mark Isaacs, an Australian who has documented several years of effort by a group of incredibly committed young people in Afghanistan to build peace in that war-torn country … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality, war
Tagged activism, Afghanistan, Community, culture, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Kabul, Mark Isaacs, Nonviolence, Peace, psychology, society, Sociology, The Kabul Peace House, Violence, war
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EMPIRES ARE A SECRET UNTIL THEY START FALLING
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese Source: Popular Resistance In the past, we have written about the 2020s as a decade when the United States Empire will end. This is based on Alfred McCoy’s predictions (listen to our interview with him on Clearing the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Afghanistan, AFRICOM, Alfred McCoy, Andre Vltchek, china, corporate media, empire, fascism, geopolitics, Hong Kong, imperialism, independent media, John Galtung, Joshua Wong, Juan Guaidó, Nuclear War, Sanctions, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, United States, US Foreign Policy, venezuela, war
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Understanding NATO, Ending War
By Robert J. Burrowes On 4 April 2019, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, better known as NATO, marked the 70th anniversary of its existence with a conference attended by the foreign ministers of member nations in Washington DC. This will … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Afghanistan, Atlantic Council, black ops, china, CIA, Colonialism, Corporate Globalization, empire, Exit NATO!, Florence Declaration, geopolitics, Global Hegemony, Global Power Elite, imperialism, iraq, Jan Oberg, Libya, Michel Chossudovsky, NATO, Neoliberalism, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, peter phillips, Russia, SACEUR, SACLANT, Soviet Union, Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Syria, Transnational Corporate Class, Violence, war, Western Europe, Yugoslavia, Yves Engler
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Bullet Points: How Forever War Will End
By Kurt Nimmo Source: Another Day in the Empire Forget a popular movement to end the wars. As George W. Bush said during his murder spree in Afghanistan and Iraq, the antiwar movement at that time (far larger than what … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, black ops, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, American exceptionalism, china, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, geopolitics, George W. Bush, imperialism, iraq, military spending, Neocons, Russia, war
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Decriminalizing the Drug War?
Calculating the Damage from a Century of Drug Prohibition By Alfred W. McCoy Source: TomDispatch.com We live in a time of change, when people are questioning old assumptions and seeking new directions. In the ongoing debate over health care, social … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, culture, Deep State, Economics, Geopolitics, Health, History, imperialism, Law, Mass Incarceration, police state, Social Control, society, State Crime, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged addiction, Afghanistan, Alfred W. McCoy, black ops, CIA, drug war, Economics, geopolitics, Harm Reduction, Lucien Conein, Mass Incarceration, Narcotics, Prohibition, Roger Trinquier, The Politics of Heroin, Tom Tripodi, U.S. Foreign Policy, Vietnam
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