War

Ironically, very ironically, Donald Trump may well be less of a war monger than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.

The real patriots are we folks who do NOT wish to send our young soldiers to all those places overseas to either kill or be killed for strictly the purposes of this Military Industrial Empire!

It was just a coincidence that one of the tranches of the repayment to Iran of Iran’s own money coincided with the release of hostages.

"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”

Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, was assassinated Monday at an art exhibition in Ankara.

In both the Somali and Afghan incidents, the US at first denied that any non-combatants had been killed.

In the aftermath of the Memorial Day military parades and with a new administration looming on the horizon, a critical task for the coming year is to build a renewed, more vibrant, interracial, and multi-generational peace movement that will pressure the next administration.

Pouring more and more trillions into the black hole of war must come to an end before the condition of America’s infrastructure becomes virtually irreversible.

Looking forward today, however, the prospect of a catastrophic World War III is again becoming all too imaginable and this time, it appears, an incident in the Arctic could prove the spark for Armageddon.

“The magnitude of Pentagon spending in the wake of the 9/11 attacks was remarkable.”