Tag Archives: NATO
Know thy enemy, know thyself
The shit-show reaction to the Trump/Putin Alaskan detente has been surreal. To listen to the radio and television, and read the New York Times or Washington Post for a few days is to be subjected to an alternate reality. The … Continue reading
R2P
Karma sure is a bitch. R2P. Responsibility to protect. It’s the fatuous excuse that US foreign policy elite have used for decades to justify their destruction of other countries. It has been a stock part of international discourse on interventions … Continue reading
Dark Comedy
Watching our feral elite fly into terrain is terrifying but there’s some inadvertent humor along the way. You just know it’s going to end in tragedy but damn if it isn’t funny. Kind of like Dr. Strangelove or: How I … Continue reading
The Russians are coming
How did the new Cold War get started? Maybe we need an enemy to keep us distracted as much of the country spirals into 3rd world status? Maybe we need an enemy to keep the Military/Intelligence/Industrial/ Complex profitable? For example, … Continue reading
There Are Alternatives
Neoliberalism is like a religious cult, with dogma to be upheld, apostates to cast out, and fervent belief in place of critical thinking. Margaret Thatcher well articulated the inflexibility of neoliberalism when she insisted that–“there is no alternative.” The … Continue reading
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