Favorite Every empire needs a scary external threat, led by a singular menacing villain, to justify its massive military expenditures, consolidation of authoritarian powers, and endless wars. For the five decades after the end of World War II, Moscow played this role perfectly. But the fall of Soviet Union meant, at least for a while,…
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The Spoils of War: Trump Lavished With Media and Bipartisan Praise For Bombing Syria
Favorite In every type of government, nothing unites people behind the leader more quickly, reflexively or reliably than war. Donald Trump now sees how true that is, as the same establishment leaders in U.S. politics and media who have spent months denouncing him as a mentally unstable and inept authoritarian and unprecedented threat to democracy are standing and applauding…
Trump’s War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised
Favorite From the start of his presidency, Donald Trump’s “war on terror” has entailed the seemingly indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people in the name of killing terrorists. In other words, Trump has escalated the 16-year-old core premise of America’s foreign policy — that it has the right to bomb any country in the world where…
Trump’s Muslim Ban Is Culmination of War on Terror Mentality but Still Uniquely Shameful
Favorite It is not difficult for any decent human being to immediately apprehend why and how Donald Trump’s ban on immigrants from seven Muslim countries is inhumane, bigoted, and shameful. During the campaign, the evil of the policy was recognized even by Mike Pence (“offensive and unconstitutional”) and Paul Ryan (violative of America’s “fundamental values”), who are far too…
Donald Trump Makes It Very Hard to Figure Out What He Really Thinks
Favorite Moments after Donald Trump told supporters at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania on Friday that he was “obviously being sarcastic” when he repeatedly called President Barack Obama “the founder of ISIS,” he seemed to backtrack on backtracking, by adding, “but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you.” Video: Trump says he was being…
The Deceptive Debate Over What Causes Terrorism Against the West
Favorite Ever since members of the U.K. Labour Party in September elected Jeremy Corbyn as party leader by a landslide, British political and media elites have acted as though their stately manors have been invaded by hordes of gauche, marauding serfs. They have waged a relentless and undisguised war to undermine Corbyn in every way possible, and…
A Muslim American Veteran Was Widely Smeared With a Fabricated Story About ISIS Charges
Favorite A RIGHT-WING BLOG called “Pajamas Media” published an article on November 24 claiming that Saadiq Long, a Muslim American veteran of the U.S. Air Force, was arrested in Turkey for being an ISIS operative. Written by Patrick Poole, a professional anti-Muslim activist and close associate of Frank Gaffney, the article asserted that Long “finds himself and several family members sitting…
What Happens #IfThePatriotActExpires? ISIS, Hellfire, Doom
Favorite Glenn Greenwald slammed the New York Times Thursday morning for a story quoting numerous anonymous senior officials who claimed that the non-renewal of three sections of the Patriot Act was tantamount to “playing national security Russian Roulette” in a time of unspecified “mounting terrorism threats.” Sensing the true danger involved, many vigilant citizens (starting with…