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A Warped View of Patriotism on Pat Tillman

A Warped View of Patriotism on Pat Tillman

by | Apr 25, 2024 |

A recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times demonstrates what is a warped interpretation of the term “patriotism.” The op-ed is about former football player Pat Tillman, who was killed in Afghanistan twenty years ago. It’s written by Bill Dwyre, a former sports editor for the Times. Dwyre reminds us that Tillman was motivated to join the military after the 9/11 attacks. He gave up a $3.6 million football contract to join the U.S. military and was hoping to be sent to...

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Killing the Constitution

Killing the Constitution

by | Apr 25, 2024 |

In the last days of East Germany, when government officials detected that their power was unraveling, they ratcheted up enforcement of the nation’s reporting laws. The reporting laws made it a felony to know of a crime and fail to report it. It was also a crime to tell the person of whose crime you learned that you had done so. There was no right to privacy and there was no freedom of speech. This Orwellian tangle resulted, of course, in many false reports of crimes. It also resulted in many...

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A Coup Without Firing a Shot 

A Coup Without Firing a Shot 

by | Apr 24, 2024 |

The last few years can be tracked at two levels: the physical reality around us and the realm of the intellectual, mental, and psychological.  The first level has presented a chaotic narrative of the previously unthinkable. A killer virus that turned out to be what many people said it was in February 2020: a bad flu with a known demographic risk best treated with known therapeutics. But that template and the ensuing campaign of fear and emergency rule gave rise to astonishing changes in...

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Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News

Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News

by | Apr 24, 2024 |

“Nothing is real,” observed John Lennon, and that’s especially true of politics. Much like the fabricated universe in Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show, in which a man’s life is the basis for an elaborately staged television show aimed at selling products and procuring ratings, the political scene in the United States has devolved over the years into a carefully calibrated exercise in how to manipulate, polarize, propagandize and control a population. Take the media circus that is...

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The Kucinich/Paul Presidential Ticket that Never Was

The Kucinich/Paul Presidential Ticket that Never Was

by | Apr 23, 2024 |

In the United States House of Representatives, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) was known for his progressive views, while Ron Paul (R-TX) was known for his libertarian views. There were many times when the two representatives disagreed about American policy and legislation. But, there was also much overlap in their views in regard to United States foreign policy and liberty in America. In this area of overlap, the two men worked together many times in the House, advocating for the US seeking peace...

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Will Zionism Self-Destruct?

Will Zionism Self-Destruct?

by | Apr 23, 2024 |

(This paper is the basis of a talk to be given at the 25th Yasin (April) International Academic Event on Economic and Social Development, HSE University, Moscow, April 2024) In the summer following Israel’s 2006 (unsuccessful) war on Hizbullah, Dick Cheney sat in his office loudly bemoaning Hizbullah’s continuing strength; and worse still, that it seemed to him that Iran had been the primary beneficiary from the US 2003 Iraq war. Cheney’s guest – the then Saudi Intelligence Chief, Prince...

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Ukraine: US Doubles Down, Russia is Cool

Ukraine: US Doubles Down, Russia is Cool

by | Apr 23, 2024 |

Russia’s free running in the Ukraine war in the most recent months is about to end as the Biden Administration has met with success, finally, in the US Congress on the long-stalled Ukraine aid bill. The aid approved by the House on Saturday would send $60.8 billion to Ukraine. Senate approval is expected as soon as Tuesday. President Biden has promised, “I will immediately sign this law to send a signal to the whole world: we support our friends and will not allow Iran or Russia to...

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Final Nail in America’s Coffin?

Final Nail in America’s Coffin?

by | Apr 22, 2024 |

When future historians go searching for the final nail in the US coffin, they may well settle on the date April 20, 2024. On that day Congress passed legislation to fund two and a half wars, hand what’s left of our privacy over to the CIA and NSA, and give the US president the power to shut down whatever part of the Internet he disagrees with. The nearly $100 billion grossly misnamed “National Security Supplemental” guarantees that Ukrainians will continue to die in that country’s unwinnable...

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Speaker Johnson’s Ignominious Betrayal

Speaker Johnson’s Ignominious Betrayal

by | Apr 19, 2024 |

Speaker Johnson’s ignominious betrayal of fiscal sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is apparently risking his speakership on behalf of $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that Uncle Sam cannot remotely afford, and which actually provide zero benefit to the homeland security of America. And we do mean zero, as in nothing, nichts, nada, nyet and nugatory, as we amplify below.  What Johnson’s impending Waterloo means, therefore, is not merely the prospect of another wild...

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US/EU Lobby Against Georgian Law That Would Reveal Their Secret Influence

US/EU Lobby Against Georgian Law That Would Reveal Their Secret Influence

by | Apr 19, 2024 |

The government of Georgia has tried for some time to implement a law "On transparency of foreign influence”. Its aim is to publicly identify organizations and parties who receive a significant amount of their budget from abroad: The draft law “In order to ensure transparency”, initiated for the second time by the Georgian Dream faction, envisages the registration of such non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entities and media outlets, whose income – more than 20% – is received from...

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The Second Round of Retaliation Between Israel and Iran Has Just Begun

The Second Round of Retaliation Between Israel and Iran Has Just Begun

by | Apr 19, 2024 |

Given the lying and fact twisting that have routinely been part and parcel of accounts of what is occurring in the Middle East, the past several weeks have nevertheless been shocking in terms of how an abysmally low standard of truth can be reduced even farther. Looking at developments objectively, one comes up with a series of facts. First of all, Israel was not at war with either Syria or Iran during the first weeks in April. Iran had never attacked Israel prior to that point and Syria last...

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Speaker Mike Johnson: The Only Options are Ukrainian or American Troops at War with Russia

Speaker Mike Johnson: The Only Options are Ukrainian or American Troops at War with Russia

by | Apr 18, 2024 |

United States House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has turned out to be an uber warmonger. He put this attitude on display in a Wednesday press conference in which he declared “I would rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys” as support for his push for the House to approve spending billions of dollars more in support of Ukraine’s war effort against Russia. Of course, the choice Johnson presented is a false choice that would only be acceptable to someone intent on war...

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Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution

Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution

by | Apr 18, 2024 |

The government long ago sold us out to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, by the way, has always been the Deep State. What’s playing out now with the highly politicized tug-of-war over whether Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act gets reauthorized by Congress doesn’t just sell us out, it makes us slaves of the Deep State. Read the fine print: it’s a doozy. Just as the USA Patriot was perverted from its stated intent to fight terrorism...

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The Right to Assembly

The Right to Assembly

by | Apr 18, 2024 |

Last week, the Supreme Court effectively abolished the right to assembly in three Southern states. By refusing to hear an appeal of a speaker accused of being liable for what a protester did in an audience the speaker addressed, the court exposed all protest organizers and speakers to potentially ruinous financial penalties for what unknown persons have done. Here is the backstory. The right to taunt the tyrant -- whether the tyrant be a king or a president or local police -- is among the...

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The National-Security Branch Rules the Roost

The National-Security Branch Rules the Roost

by | Apr 17, 2024 |

If there is anything that confirms that the national-security branch of the federal government rules the roost within the federal governmental structure, it is the Pentagon/CIA torture and indefinite-detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That facility stands as an ongoing testament to the overarching power of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA within America’s governmental structure and the deference to their authority displayed by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the...

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‘Do Not Touch Me…I am a Faculty Member’: Cornell Professor Disrupts Coulter Speech

‘Do Not Touch Me…I am a Faculty Member’: Cornell Professor Disrupts Coulter Speech

by | Apr 17, 2024 |

Monica Cornejo, an assistant professor of interpersonal communication, was forcibly removed from a Cornell University event this week after disrupting a speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter. She is only the latest faculty member to seek to prevent others from hearing opposing views. The question now is what Cornell will do about her conduct. To its credit, Cornell resolved to reinvite Coulter to speak after a prior event was disrupted by protesters. On March 13, Cornell Provost...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

No Peace Dividend Again

No Peace Dividend Again

by | Nov 10, 2021

Back when the Soviet Union fell apart, there was much talk of a peace dividend — a big reduction in the United States government’s spending on militarism. The peace dividend did...

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