For most Americans, and certainly for baby boomers, we remember the first major exposé before Congress during the Church Committee hearings, when William Colby, the head of the CIA admitted under oath that the agency had its tentacles in much of the American mainstream media and promulgated bogus stories for citizens to consume.
When the government can label anyone or anything an enemy in order to wage war, we are all in danger.
On Friday morning I jumped out of bed just before 5 am Eastern US time full of fear that President Donald Trump might have become the declared recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, following in the footsteps of noted warmonger President Barack Obama, who is fondly remembered for also institutionalizing the killing the American citizens overseas whom he targeted in weekly White House staff meetings.
The Trump administration has been providing the Ukrainian military with intelligence to help it carry out massive strikes on Russian energy infrastructure with the hopes of forcing Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.
The Israeli Minister of National Security says he is proud that the members of the Greta Thunberg flotilla that was bringing food and medicines to Palestinians, who are being deliberately starved and denied medical assistance by Israel, are being punished as terrorists and subject to harsh treatment.
It would be an interesting exercise if one might view and consider in retrospect the week that began with the United Nations General Assembly speech in New York on September 23rd...
“The era of the Department of Defense is over… From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: warfighting.” — Pete Hegseth
What we are witnessing is not a government of the people, by the people, and for the people; it is a government over the people.
I have university degrees in ancient, medieval and early modern history but search as I may, I cannot find another example of a small, low population state largely devoid of natural resources that has been able...
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. killed another three people he said were trafficking narcotics in international waters on Monday, as legal experts continue to discuss the first strike earlier this month on a speed boat also believed to be carrying drugs.