Del Spurlock: Mary McGrory on Telling Off The President About the Squandering of Black Youth Development

Telling Off The President Mary McGrory, The Washington Post, May 19, 1992 Speaking truth to power, once the province of courageous Old Testament prophets, is becoming the custom of the country. Just about everyone George Bush meets these days tells him off. Bush asked for this by his clumsy partisan response to the upheaval that …

Can Donald Trump Wage Peace with An Army of 3 Million, All Overseas Bases Closed, and More…?

MEMORANDUM Seven National Security Talking Points for the Presidential Debate Cycle Grand Strategy. America does not have a Grand Strategy – a review of all threats and all policies and all costs – together. The last grand strategy review was Project Solarium under President and former General Dwight D. Eisenhower. What we have done since …

Ben Norton @ Salon: Col Lawrence Wilkerson, USA (Ret) Condemns US Military-Industrial Complex

“We are the death merchant of the world”: Ex-Bush official Lawrence Wilkerson condemns military-industrial complex The military-industrial complex “is much more pernicious than Eisenhower ever thought,” says the retired US colonel “Was Bill Clinton’s expansion of NATO — after George H. W. Bush and [his Secretary of State] James Baker had assured Gorbachev and then …

Robert Parry: Jonathan Marshall on US Arms Makers Inciting a New Cold War

US Arms Makers Invest in a New Cold War Behind the U.S. media-political clamor for a new Cold War with Russia is a massive investment by the Military-Industrial Complex in “think tanks” and other propaganda outlets, writes Jonathan Marshall. Think tanks like the Lexington Institute are prime movers behind the domestic propaganda campaign to revive …

Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part II – Overview of Planning and Programming Factors for Expeditionary Operations

Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part II – Overview of Planning and Programming Factors for Expeditionary Operations, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017. Part II in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series. Robert David Steele DOC (37 Pages): EIN 7FV42 ERAP Steele Vol 2 Global Reality …