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Many people are assuming that Trump is seeking an off ramp. This is just another deception to encourage people not to fully prepare for a long struggle. The response to every setback has been to double down not to retreat.
Robert Pape is a very subtle propagandist for US militarism. He appears otherwise which is where the subtlety is. He explains how he has gamed and mapped US strategy for decades and even has a protocol for the wars. What does not make sense is that he assumes that US war objectives are say X, but he never is listened to. He then explains the negative consequences when his plans were not listened to. He argues that the goal of…
Western commentators have a seriously misleading description of Israel’s nuclear strategy. One could even say that Western commentators have been playing up the likely effectiveness of Israel’s use of nuclear weapons, i.e. acting as propagandists for Israel. Western commentators are behaving as cheerleaders for Israel’s use of nuclear weapons. Whenever mention is made of Israel’s use of nuclear weapons, it is said as if it were a final action. This is absurd. First of all, the use of nuclear…
US policy attains its end by the following means: a) violence in the form of the use of armed force, and b) monetary assistance in the form of mass bribery or large-scale subsidies, as in the form of Trump’s subsidies to Argentina prior to the general election. One can see these policies as adjunct to neo-conservativism, which interprets social and human motivation as basically carrot and stick. In their view, the primary carrot is financial rewards or incentives, and…
Blowing smoke up Europe Rubio at the Munich Security Conference stated: ‘It was here in Europe where the ideas that planted the seeds of liberty that changed the world were born. It was here in Europe where the world – which gave the world the rule of law, the universities, and the scientific revolution. It was this continent that produced the genius of Mozart and Beethoven, of Dante and Shakespeare, of Michelangelo and Da Vinci, of the Beatles and…
You may be shocked by the lies, deceit, and abandonment of all values exhibited by the US political elites. This is, in fact, to be expected. Cesaire wrote: “Because, after all, we must resign ourselves to the inevitable and say to ourselves, once and for all, that the bourgeoisie is condemned to become every day more snarling, more openly ferocious, more shameless, more summarily barbarous; that it is an implacable law that every decadent class finds itself turned into…
There have been many comments about Chomsky’s communications with Epstein. This post is only about one major blind spot of Chomsky’s critics. We should ask : how might Epstein have managed his relation switch Chomsky? What ‘truthful’ description could Epstein have made that might have lulled Chomsky? One must first recognise that both parties would recognise that it would be impossible for Epstein to tell his own story in writing so his defence would have to be made discreet…
‘Zombie’ is a complex moral concept. It conceives of a person who seeks to avoid the pain of subordination to evil by abandoning their moral nature. As long as a person maintains their moral dimension there is great pain when they do evil and know it. Many Israeli soldier have become mentally ill some committed suicide because of what they have done and the moral pain they suffer. Instead they close down their moral self and obey a power….
Knight for a rook? McNamara on playing dice or chess with nuclear war. At one point in an interview with Fidel Castro, McNamara said that if Castro had launched missiles against Washington, the US would have blasted Cuba off the face of the earth. McNamara looked at Fidel as if Fidel had lost his mind. But who is mad here? At the end of this exchange Washington DC would be completely destroyed as would be Cuba. From an American…
Two can dance to suicide. Scott has got his nuclear threat all wrong! First of all, McNamara interviewed Castro before his death. McNamara asked Fidel what he would have done if the US had bombed the missile sites. Castro confirmed that the missiles were nuclear armed and loaded and he would have been launched on notice of the attack. McNamara said if Cuba had nuked Washington the US would have blasted Cuba off the face of the earth. Castro…