The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from …
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Pentagon Concerned Russia Cultivating Sympathy Among US Troops The second annual Reagan National Defense Survey, completed in late October, found nearly half of armed services households questioned, 46%, said they viewed Russia as ally.
Reckoning with the costs of war: It’s time to take responsibility As horrible as the wars’ impacts are in this country, a new report released today by Brown University’s Costs of War project shows that the magnitude of death, injury and trauma in the countries where the United States has fought its wars is far …
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Obama’s Unending Wars – Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State A Book Review In his conclusion Kuzmarov writes, Though packaging himself as a peace candidate, Obama ultimately proved indispensable to the military-industrial complex in his ability to sustain the illusion of humanitarian intervention and defuse anti-war activism.” Kuzmarov’s thematic idea is well …
What Was It All For: Veterans Have Finally Turned On America’s Endless Wars A major opinion poll’s results were released which demonstrated that fully two-thirds of post 9/11 veterans now think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan “weren’t worth fighting.” That’s a remarkable, and distressing, statistic and one that should give America’s president, legislators, media, and people …
War, Memory and Gettysburg The inability of most generals to adapt, as Allen C. Guelzo writes in “Gettysburg: The Last Invasion,” “makes the Civil War look like an exercise in raw stupidity equivalent to the slaughters on the Western Front [of World War I].” By focusing on battlefield exploits we too often blot out the …
