NBC Continues to Push Pentagon’s Military Propaganda

Glenn Greenwald has been tirelessly cover the mainstream corporate media’s perpetual fear-mongering with respect to war with Iran. At a time when few people consistently hold the media elites accountable, Greenwald is one of the few that simply won’t let go of this- he is like a dog with a bone and we are much […]

South Sudan Erupts in Genocidal Violence While the World Looks the Other Way

I guess this is Rwanda Part 2. Sudan has learned that the West will largely do nothing in the face of genocide unless a) there are vast oil reserves for the taking (there are vast oil and mineral reserves but our banker, China, has claim to a large portion of them), b) We have an […]

Last Straw: Israel is No Ally, We Must Cut All Aid to Israel

I have never before supported cutting ALL aid to Israel. However, I do now. Israel is no ally of the U.S. Rather, it is a petulant, spoiled client state that seems to delight in treating it’s superpower benefactor like little more than a useful idiot that screams “how high” when Israeli leaders scream “jump.” The […]

Government Wastes Billions of Taxpayer Dollars in the Post-9/11 Security Feeding Frenzy

This is a disgrace. But hey, so long as the word “security” can be applied, who cares about billions of dollars going down the drain with nothing to show for it? That has NOTHING to do with so-called “out of control government spending.” No, the real problem is poor people who milk the system with […]

The Rich are Getting Richer, the Middle Class is Disappearing But Hey, the Military Industrial Complex is Doing Well!

We are a nation in decline. Defense spending continues to increase, labor unions and public employees are being scapegoated for our economic problems, the tax code favors the rich and on and on. Some millionaires in the U.S. paid zero income tax as did many of the largest U.S. corporations. And no, those defense “cuts” […]

The National Security State: If We Keep This Up The Terrorists Win

The events of 9/11 have spawned an understandable focus on security, however, the extent of fear-mongering, Islamophobia and ongoing curtailment of civil liberties, along with the meteoric rise of an unwieldy national security state which operates like a secret government within a government, is at odds with the principles and values of representative democracy. The […]

This is why I love Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald is a well-known progressive blogger over at Salon who made a name for himself analyzing the legal implications of the Bush administration’s illegal domestic spying, among other things, including the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame. He has become a huge thorn in the side of the lazy, sycophantic media and also […]

State Department Blocks Oversight of Its Private Mercenary Army in Iraq

So much for transparency. This is from Spencer Ackerman over at Wired. This is just an excerpt but go read the whole article here. Excerpt: By January 2012, the State Department will do something it’s never done before: command a mercenary army the size of a heavy combat brigade. That’s the plan to provide security […]

Don’t Ever Forget What the Media Is: Corporate

The media is only as liberal as the conservative multinational corporations that own it. It is no secret that MSNBC has endeavored to be the more liberal version of Fox News, a questionable gambit that is more of a concession to race-to-the-bottom journalism than anything else. While I happen to be quite progressive, I never […]

Will There Ever Be An End to Military Dictatorship in Egypt?

This could put the U.S. in a prickly situation given the Egyptian people don’t trust us due to our strong support of the Egyptian military. While the Egyptian military did exercise significant restraint during the uprising, the U.S. turned a blind eye to the ongoing detention and torture of activists and dissidents by the military, […]

Obama Administration Desperate to Keep Troops in Iraq

Iraq was never about weapons of mass destruction, it was about oil, re-making the map of the Middle East in the West’s image and securing military bases of operation in the region to fight other wars- like with Iran: But in recent months, the U.S. has let it be known that it is willing to […]

Time for Responsible Cuts to Defense Spending

Anyone who is serious about dealing with the deficit but who takes all defense spending off the table, isn’t really serious about deficit reduction. Instead, they are simply interested in using the debt debate as a pretext to cut social programs they never liked to begin with, all the while watching out for their corporate […]

Barack Obama’s Approval Rating in Arab World Now Lower Than That of George W. Bush *updated*

That’s quite an accomplishment considering President G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney launched two wars in the region and totally neglected the Mideast peace process (the Roadmap notwithstanding). Obama had high approval ratings after his much-lauded Cairo speech but it has been all downhill from there. Of course, it doesn’t help that despite his progressive campaign […]

House Passes Another AIPAC-Sponsored Resolution

Last night the House of Representatives passed a resolution threatening to cut off aid from the Palestinian Authority and praising Israel for it’s wonderfulness. As usual, AIPAC wrote the legislation and the usual suspects like Abe Foxman of the ADL lined up to praise the symbolic, meaningless resolution. How many so-called “pro-Israel” resolutions has Congress […]

Obama Administration Opposes Leak of Classified Information…Unless It’s Them Doing the Leaking

The Obama administration has waged a full-scale war against whistle-blowers. As a Presidential candidate, Barack Obama seemed to understand the importance of not only having people willing to speak out and expose government wrongdoing, but of also protecting those people. Here is what he said in 2008: “Government whistleblowers are part of a healthy democracy […]

U.S. Militarism and Women’s Rights

This is a subject that I’ve been interested in for a long time. I’ve always had a hard time rationalizing certain feminist principles with the United States’ hawkish foreign policy. How can we as a country proclaim our unyielding support for women around the world while at the same time advocating military solutions to almost […]

Obama’s Afghanistan Speech: Underwhelming

President Obama’s incessant need to try to please everybody is annoying. As usual, he has tried to split the baby and is bringing an insignificant number of troops home over a period of about two years. Given that his 2009 “surge” added 30,000 troops, he will only be bringing an extra 3,000 troops home to […]

What We Have Given Up to Fund the War in Afghanistan in 2011

The Iraq War was based on a lie and the war in Afghanistan has become a boondoggle of epic proportion and yet we are still in both countries (and a few new ones!), with no clear endgame in sight. The administration admits that there are around maybe around 50-100 Al Qaeda members in Afghanistan and […]

War is Big Business & Peace is For Sissies

War has become so easy these days, at least for most of us. With the exception of the tiny number of families who have sons or daughters in the military, the rest of us can just sit back behind the safety of our keyboards and opine about whether or not we should bomb Iran, Syria, […]