War

A military force effectively unaccountable to the people tears at the very fabric of the Constitution, which is at pains to mandate firm and complete control over the military by Congress, acting in the people’s name.

At least 32 people have been killed and over 230 people injured in Brussels’ Zaventem airport and a metro station this morning after two bombs went off. ISIS claims responsibility.

We must ask whether an institution, the military, supposedly endowed with supernal character by objective circumstances, is to master us, or we to master it by determining for ourselves what it properly is and does.

The destruction caused by neoliberalism is global. The patterns of economic, social, cultural and political assault that Mexico has suffered are afflicting countries from Greece to the United States. Only a worldwide anti-capitalist resistance movement will save us.

In movie terms, you could think of Washington’s war policies in the post-9/11 era as pure “play it again, Sam.”

Although NATO countries have worse, more despotic allies in the region, like the tyrannical monarchies of the Gulf, Turkey’s erratic, arrogant leader is arguably the most dangerous.

While millions of people all over the world are being killed and injured by wars and violence, a small few are making billions from the never-ending war machine.

In the end, the oil attrition wars may lead us not into a future of North American triumphalism, nor even to a more modest Saudi version of the same, but into a strange new world in which an unlimited capacity to produce oil meets an increasingly crippled capitalist system without the capacity to absorb it.

Ben, we bloggers will all miss you, as will all the standup comedians.

Who will get your support as the best candidate to continue killing the loved ones of others?