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In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Joshua Scheer In a vote that cuts straight through the carefully managed language of Washington diplomacy, seven Senate Democrats broke with much of their party and joined Republicans to block an effort that would have halted U.S. arms sales to Israel. The resolution—introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders—failed 40–59, ensuring the continued transfer of military equipment as the region slides…
My love affair with America has been a long one. It began when I was a boy in Africa. For me, America was a fairyland, a place of stupendous wonders: finned cars, 27 varieties of ice cream, movie glamor, and endless inventions. It was “a shining city upon a hill,” long before President Ronald Reagan solemnized that phrase. America shone as a place of untrammeled opportunity to do anything and become anything. Now, after living here for over 60 years, I still find it full of opportunity. And where there is opportunity, there is hope. In America you have the…
America’s birth rate keeps falling. The real problem isn’t housing costs or student debt – it’s a culture that stopped valuing family. Source link
In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Jason Ditz for AntiWar.com Israeli officials have been saying they intended to apply a Gaza Strip model to the invasion of Lebanon, but the extent of the destruction inflicted on the southern part of Lebanon in the first month and a half of the war is even bigger than initially feared. New reports from the BBC are that they’ve visually confirmed more…
GEN McChrystal was a martial disaster. What wrong looks like… This is what happens when your architects fall in love with their processes so much they forget about the objective. Military students should really study why graduate-level white papers, PowerPoint slides, and endless Battle Update Brief (BUB) and Commander’s Update Brief (CUB) “battle rhythm events” didn’t beat a decentralized bunch of illiterate goat-herding Muslim jihadists. The Taliban is one of the most successful Islamic insurgencies since the 17th century. Steven Pressfield: “It’s the tribes, stupid.” “It was only Mao who said, ‘there is no such thing as a decisive battle’…
In a tough and complex world, people tending to the left side of the political spectrum are often accused of starry-eyed naïveté when they push for the prevention of war and the building of peace through law, diplomacy and budgetary control over military forces—replacing the law of force with the force of law. The operating paradigm of the hawkish, by contrast, is peace through strength: no amount of weapons is ever enough and the glove of diplomacy only thinly covers the iron fist of force. These are caricatures, simplified to make a point. We now have a Secretary of Defense…
An effort by House Democrats to end President Donald Trump’s military operations in Iran narrowly failed Thursday after a War Powers Resolution failed to pass in a 213 to 214 vote. The vote broke mostly along party lines, with House Democrats joined by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) in voting for the resolution. House Republicans were joined by moderate Democrat Jared Golden of Maine to secure the one-vote majority needed to defeat the resolution. One Republican, Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio, voted present. On Wednesday, the Senate voted to reject a similar measure. On March 5, a House vote to end…
On the plains of northwestern Iran, edged by snow-ribboned ridges, spring nudges almond trees into frothy bloom and a fragile ceasefire brings more traffic onto highways, and more Iranians back to their homeland. Source link
A broad overview of U.S. military action in Venezuela, Iran, and Russia reveals a U.S. plan to disable its competitors and corner the world oil market, says a new documentary by Richard Medhurst, who joins CN Live! 8 pm EDT Tonight. Is the war on Iran just one part of a much broader U.S. strategy involving Venezuela, Greenland, Russia Qatar Iran and Hormuz, all to corner the oil market so that the world, and especially China, becomes dependent on U.S. oil? British journalist Richard Medhurst thinks so. He has just produced a 34-minute documentary film laying out this scenario.…
There has been an outpouring of recalls in the USA due to lead contamination in the food supply. Lead showing up in food in the United States is the result of overlapping structural problems that have been building for decades, and the recalls you are seeing now are simply the system reacting after the fact rather than preventing contamination in the first place. At the core, lead is a naturally occurring heavy metal that exists in soil and water, but human activity has dramatically amplified its presence. The legacy of leaded gasoline, old paint, industrial emissions, and contaminated irrigation systems means…