War

“The U.S. has played a disproportionate role in waging war, in launching war and in perpetuating war over the last 19 years.”

Embedded journalists and news organizations that hire retired generals for commentary don’t give the true picture.

“Our $21 trillion investment in militarism has cost far more than dollars.”

Peace and justice advocates must be grounded in anti-imperialism and nonintervention by the United States.

As so much of the world burns, America’s answer to Nero, rather than fiddling, seems intent on pouring more gasoline on the fires.

Afghan civilians have always disproportionately experienced the effects of war and they will now also disproportionately experience what may be an even worse peace — if one can even call it that.

And, aside from the impotent imposing of economic sanctions on Russia and on its leaders and oligarch supporters, the U.S. has admitted there is nothing it or its NATO puppet states can do.

But 20 years later, the U.S is still counting the human cost and financial cost.

Belgium’s capital city of Brussels is on its highest alert as residents remain on lockdown. People are being told to stay away from their windows, and schools remain closed as police and soldiers carry out raids in the search for suspects in the Paris attacks ten days ago that killed 130 people.

The continuing influence of the neocons, who were the architects of U.S. aggression against Iraq, in the ever-escalating Western military response to Russian aggression against Ukraine.