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Posted: Nov 12, 2024 - 10:18am

Trump eyeing hawks and neocons for top foreign policy/NatSec roles
Rubio, Waltz, Stefanik : what do they all have in common?
News Monday that President-elect Trump was eyeing three hawks for top slots in his administration has put a bit of a damper on the headiness that restrainers on the right were feeling over weekend news that Nikki Haley or Mike Pompeo would not be joining the administration.

By 8 p.m. Monday, there was confirmation that Elise Stefanik, arch-defender of Israel who once worked for the neocon outfit Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and Bill Kristol's Foreign Policy Initiative, is Trump's pick for UN ambassador.

China hawk Rep. Mike Waltz, who spent much of his time on Capitol Hill this year saber rattling about Chinese military and spies in our backyard, and calling for a "new Monroe Doctrine" and a lot more military build-up to confront them, is expected to be Trump's pick for National Security Advisor, according to "multiple sources." He worked in the George W. Bush Pentagon and for Vice President Dick Cheney as a counterterrorism advisor.

Add to that, he resisted Trump's efforts to get the U.S. military out of the 20-year war in Afghanistan, and like many uber-hawks in Congress, has been open to bombing Iran.

To top it off for appointment watchers, news hit that Trump is going to tap Senator Marco Rubio, longtime hawk who spent the better part of his Capitol Hill career promoting neoconservative foreign policy positions, particularly on Iran and the Middle East. He was a big defender of the war in Iraq until he was running for president in 2016 and Trump had made it unpopular. (...)
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Posted: Nov 11, 2024 - 9:58am

Stefanik UN pick: win for hardliners aiming to frontload Trump WH
She previously worked at neocon think tanks including one co-founded by Bill Kristol and Bob Kagan
By the numbers: US missile capacity depleting fast
Our industrial base isn't keeping up with the pace of weapons transfers to Ukraine and Israel
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Posted: Nov 5, 2024 - 12:43pm

$4000 soap dispensers on Air Force planes? Just you wait.
Provisions in this year's NDAA would allow military contractors to gouge taxpayers even more


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Posted: Oct 30, 2024 - 2:19pm

The Neocon Queen (now on the board of the NED regime change/colour revolution factory) is back...
Nuland & Maddow back at the red string conspiracy board
The former State Department official tells MSNBC that Trump, Elon, and Putin are "all on the same team"
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Posted: Oct 27, 2024 - 12:37pm

Biden's 'leadership' is blowing the lid off two wars
The president promised to contain Gaza and Ukraine but both conflicts have been a slow burn to something much bigger
President Joe Biden has called America “the world power,” and has referred to his “leadership in the world.” If Biden does indeed see himself as a, or the, world leader, then he has been disappointing in his job and has mismanaged it.

The world today stands on the brink of larger wars, even potentially world wars, on two fronts simultaneously. That is, perhaps, a more precarious position than the world has found itself in in over half a century, since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and perhaps longer. Then, the danger came from a single front: today, there is danger on two or even three.

The Biden administration seemingly subscribes to a foreign policy doctrine of nurturing wars while attempting to manage them so that they remain confined to America’s foreign policy interests and do not spill over into wider wars. But such fine calibrations are not easily done. War is sloppy and unpredictable. Though a nation’s plans may be well understood by its planners, calibration of what might push the enemy too far and cause a wider war depends equally on your enemy’s plans, calibrations, passions and red lines: all of which are harder to profile or understand.

What is more, the contemporary culture of the U.S. foreign policy establishment seems dedicated precisely to excluding the kind of knowledge and empathy that allows one to understand an adversary’s mind, and instead to fostering ill-informed and hate-filled prejudice. (...)

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Posted: Oct 26, 2024 - 11:49am

Always ready to take its rules-based ball and go home

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Posted: Oct 25, 2024 - 11:51am

How the US-backed coup ended Guatemala's 'Ten Years of Spring'
The 1954 overthrow of the reformist president ended up shaping one nation’s future and another’s foreign policy
The intertwined anniversaries this year of Guatemala’s 1944 Revolution and the 1954 coup that ended it provide an essential lens for understanding both Guatemala's history and U.S. geopolitical strategies in Latin America and the Global South more broadly.

The "Ten Years of Spring" (1944-1954) was a brief period of reforms aimed at addressing deep inequalities in land distribution and labor rights, particularly for the majority indigenous populations. However, this momentum was abruptly halted by a U.S.-backed coup in 1954, leaving lasting scars on Guatemala and shaping U.S. interventionist policies in the region and beyond. (...)

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Posted: Oct 23, 2024 - 12:14pm

To the American Deserters..!

The Scandinavian Experience, 1969


Be sure to crank up all you got, ...'cause it's getting better on and on. 


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Posted: Oct 22, 2024 - 12:09pm

Welcome to the defense death spiral
At the current spending rate, in another generation we will have a lot of rich contractors and no aircraft or Naval fleets to speak of
A basic truth in Washington is that almost every single new weapon system ends up costing significantly more than the one it is replacing.

As the cost of weapons increases, the number of systems produced decreases. That’s how the United States ended up with only 21 B-2s, 187 F-22s, and three Zumwalt-class destroyers, rather than the 132, 750, and 32 respectively the military initially promised. This phenomenon creates what is known as the Defense Death Spiral, when the unit cost of new weapons outrace defense budgets.

John Boyd and his friends in the Military Reform Movement during the late Cold War years warned us about the military industrial congressional complex 50 years ago. This small band of Pentagon insiders saw with their own eyes how the political economy created by the financial and political connections between the military elite, the defense industry, and society’s ruling class wasted precious resources and produced a series of deeply flawed weapons. (...)

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Posted: Oct 18, 2024 - 1:43pm

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When Blood Money Isn’t Enough: Raytheon Admits to Defrauding Pentagon
RTX’s bombs regularly kill children and civilians. It does white-collar crimes too, according to a $950 million fraud and bribery settlement this week.
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Posted: Oct 18, 2024 - 9:13am


The Biggest Mail Censorship Program in U.S. History (Which You Never Heard Of)
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Posted: Oct 16, 2024 - 9:56am

Popular YouTuber discovers how corrupt the Pentagon budget is
'The lawmakers get richer if we spend more money on defense'
Johnny Harris, a popular YouTuber with nearly 6 million subscribers, published a video on Thursday that sought to answer an enormous question: “Why does the U.S. spend so much on its military”? He answers that question in extreme detail and ultimately arrives at uncovering why, in large part, the Pentagon budget is so high: the corrupt process of how lawmakers and big defense contractors and their lobbyists are all on the take.

The first half of Harris’s deep, 28 minute long dive into the U.S. military budget focuses on what the Pentagon is actually paying for, things like troops’ salaries and health care, operations and maintenance, bases, construction, and research and development. He notes that the Defense Department is so big and complex, it has never been able to pass a financial audit.

“The U.S. is not a normal country with a regular military,” Harris says, by way of offering a kind of explanation as to why the Pentagon spends so much on all these things. “The U.S. is a global hegemon who uses its military to assert control and order over every corner of the globe,” he adds, in effect, flagging American primacy as a culprit. (...)

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Posted: Oct 12, 2024 - 1:21pm


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Posted: Oct 11, 2024 - 3:24pm

American culture reduced to aggressive warmongering, ultra-feminist & liberal, Zionist capitalism. Whoa ey... 
No bells ringing here. Move on folks, nothing to see.

Perversion & self-destruction are on the march in all the capitalist oligarchies and the masses have long begun to notice. Their votes are counted as extreme right or left wing these days.
The mainstream media who keep aiming their infectious slime blob at us all, feeding off of our taxes and us "voluntarily addicted" readily paying them all we can afford (and more) desperately keep painting a different picture.

Calling for peace, or environmental restriction makes people radicals or terrorists in the eye of the blob.

In so far, the US are dangerously trance-dancing all the West into harmageddon without all our influencers noticing and mankind as sheeple keeps heading for the guillotine.

Is this really necessary?

During the Cold War we had a chance to evade this. Then, when the USSR crashed, we let our guards down and allowed our own capitalist system to devour us all for the financial rewards of a few.

Oligarchy 2.0 on steroids, thanks to the world-leader of this self-destructive movement, "USA".








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Posted: Oct 9, 2024 - 10:59am

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Posted: Oct 5, 2024 - 1:59pm

Malicorne - L'écolier assassin (Almanach, 1979)
Dedicated to fuckheadedness
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Posted: Oct 4, 2024 - 10:57am

What the US Did to Haiti
How the American public's ignorance of the country's destructive policy towards Haiti
fuels racialized narratives about the supposed threat of Haitian immigrants.
Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have recently been pushing vicious racist fake news about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, claiming they are stealing and eating people's pets and destroying the town. But why are there Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, in the first place? What role has U.S. foreign policy played in driving Haitians from Haiti? Jonathan Katz is one of the leading journalists writing about U.S. imperialism and is a specialist in Haiti. The former Port-au-Prince bureau chief for the Associated Press, he is the author of the books The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster and Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire. Katz tells us about the history of U.S. relations with Haiti, common misconceptions about the country, and the deeper meaning of the Springfield pet-eating scare and how it fits with longstanding racialized narratives about supposedly threatening Haitians. (...)

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