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Our Real National Security Budget
$2 Trillion, Here We Come. By Andrew Cockburn Source: Spoils of War The Biden Administration has just published its proposed budget, generating copious commentary, much of it displaying a commensurate degree of misunderstanding, especially regarding our gargantuan national security spending. … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, CIA, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, FBI, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Corruption, Deep State, Defense Budget, Department of Energy, Dystopia, Economics, empire, FBI, Geoppolitics, imperialism, Joe Biden, military spending, military-industrial complex, National Defense Authorization Act, National Security, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers, Winslow Wheeler
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UNITED AGAINST NUCLEAR IRAN: THE SHADOWY, INTELLIGENCE-LINKED GROUP DRIVING THE US TOWARDS WAR WITH IRAN
By Alan MacLeod Source: Mint Press News Most of the world has watched the Israeli assault on Gaza in horror. As tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced, tens of millions of people around the world have poured … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged are my closest partners in more facets of my life than anyone else other than my wife, ” he told the Emirati outlet, Deep State, elites, empire, fascism, Gaza, geopolitics, imperialism, Iran, Israel, John Bolton, Mark Wallace, military-industrial complex, Neocons, Oligarchy, Palestine, Qassem Soleimani, Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed., Sheldon Adelson, The National News, Thomas Kaplan, UAE, UANI, United Against Nuclear Iran, US Foreign Policy, war, War Criminals, war profiteers
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Neocons Blame Endless Wars On Those Who Oppose Endless Wars
In yet another Orwellian inversion of reality, Raytheon stooge turned Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently posited that the real problem with American foreign policy isn’t decades of imperialist aggression waged by the military industrial complex, but rather non interventionalists who … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged civil liberties, Deep State, Dystopia, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Israel, Lloyd Austin, Militarism, military-industrial complex, Neocons, propaganda, Psyops, Raytheon, Syria, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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More Lethal “Aid” for Israel
Can’t the Israelis Pay for their Own Bullets, Bombs, and Missiles? By W.J. Astore Source: Bracing Views Apparently the top priority in the U.S. Congress is sending more “aid” to Israel, most of it lethal. It’s more important than health … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, Neocons, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Gaza, Genocide, geopolitics, Hamas, Israel, Jabalia, Medea Benjamin, Mike Johnson, Militarism, military-industrial complex, Nicolas Davies, Palestine, war crimes, war profiteers, Zionism
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Israel is committing an epic war crime with US backing and arms
Where is the U.S. peace movement and the U.S. public outrage? By Dave Lindorff Source: Nation of Change When the U.S. was bombing levees and hospitals in North Vietnam, peasants in Laos and burning villages in South Vietnam, herding those … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, news, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Colonialism, Deep State, El Salvador, Gaza, geopolitics, Hamas, IDF, iraq, Israel, military spending, military-industrial complex, Nicaragua, Palestine, Taxes, US Foreign Policy, Vietnam, war, war crimes, War Criminals, war profiteers
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Not ONLY Ukraine Lacks Options, No Plan B for US Hegemony: Pouring Sand Down a Rat Hole
By Henry Kamens Source: New Eastern Outlook When a title in the Washington Post is so revealing, you can understand that the handwriting is on the wall, and that really is SO revealing, and if it is not an “I … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, NATO, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Antony Blinken, corporate media, Deep State, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Joe Biden, Mainstream Media, NATO, propaganda, proxy war, Psyops, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers
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The Ukraine Mess is Animal Farm in Reverse: Starring Blackrock and Other Pigs
By Phil Butler Source: New Eastern Outlook Recently, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that the European Union should double its assistance to Ukraine. She went on to say the EU should create a support … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, NATO, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Animal Farm, BlackRock, Dystopia, Economics, empire, European Commission, European Union, geopolitics, George Orwell, imperialism, International Finance Corporation, Joe Biden, JPMorgan Chase, Larry Fink, military-industrial complex, NATO, Nestlé, Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen, Volodymyr Zelensky, war, war profiteers
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$850 Billion Chicken Comes Home to Roost.
War Reveals U.S. Military’s Longtime Disinterest in War. By Andrew Cockburn Source: Spoils of War Watching a recent video of Ukrainian troops scrambling out of a U.S.-supplied Bradley armored fighting vehicle just after it hit a mine, I remembered how hard the … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Corporate Welfare, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, military-industrial complex, NATO, news, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged cluster bombs, Corporate Welfare, Defense Budget, empire, F-35, geopolitics, HIMARS, imperialism, Jake Sullivan, Jen Psaki, Joe Biden, military spending, military-industrial complex, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, war, War Criminals, war profiteers
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