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Boo-yah! USA USA!! Let’s go stomp some Syria butt. What could possibly go wrong with that? Quite a lot, actually. James Joyner I’m a former Army officer with a PhD specializing in national security policy and some 25 years experience in the field. I’ve got a reasonable clue about the nature of the military problem [...] American Leftist Voices for war in the US have privileged access to the media, with outlets like the New York Times, NPR and PBS providing a veneer of understated, urbane legitimacy to the more populist, shrill expressions of militarism found elsewhere. Journalists and foreign policy analysts perpetually reference a non-existent nuclear weapons program, subject [...] Two years ago, it appeared that world leaders might address the truly global threats that we face. In many cases, that trend has not continued or been reversed. For that reason, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is moving the clock hand one minute closer to midnight, back to its time in 2007. Despite the promise [...] If substantial U.S. intervention in Syria has already taken place, the unintended consequences could be catastrophic, especially for the Syrian people. If the U.S. decides to intervene in the near future, the costs would be unspeakably high and would almost certainly turn into an effort to install another controllable despot in Damascus that conforms more [...] From Irgun veteran turned Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery. Such a war would go far beyond the dimensions of the American invasions of Iraq or Afghanistan, perhaps even of Vietnam. Is the bankrupt US up to it? Economically, politically and in terms of morale? The closing of the strait is the ultimate weapon. I don’t [...] Black Agenda Report We know that we are in an electoral political wasteland when the only major party discussion of U.S. empire and endless warfare takes place in the Republican presidential primary. Ron Paul is the only candidate who opposes US imperialism and the wars. The silence from Obama, the Democratic Party, and Democrats [...] American, British, Israeli and Iranian warships sailing towards confrontation What could possible go wrong with with hordes of heavily armed military spewing testosterone at each other? No other candidate is this blunt about the stupidity and uselessness of our wars. And that, Ian Welch says, is why Ron Paul splits the left. He forces them to decide what most important. Abortion or ending the wars? Stopping climate change or jailing the banksters? Apologizing for Obama or supporting Habeus Corpus? And that’s [...] Bank of America cubicles emptied of the 99% employees who used to do home loan modifications for the rest of the 99% Revolutions all over the world have been demonstrating just how critical the internet is to the modern world. It can be used to oppress and it can be used to free people [...] Foreign policy wonk and fellow podcaster Keith Boyea just posted his anti-war playlist. Even though I indulge in it, the COINdanista vs. COINtra debate always depresses me because it fights over HOW the war should be fought instead of asking the far more important question: “Why should we fight?” I wish we’d have spent a [...] |  | ||||
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