Genocide Is Apparently OK in Gaza

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The LA Holocaust Museum recently suggested that “Never Again” is a fundamental lesson of the Holocaust. Then they took it back. Here’s the (almost) inconceivable story from Caitlin Johnstone: Israel supporters...

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Something Is Rotten in the States of America

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Something is Rotten in the States of America. America’s war budget now exceeds $1 trillion a year – an almost unimaginable sum. The Pentagon plans to spend $1.7 trillion “modernizing” a nuclear triad that...

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Persistent, Pernicious, Perpetual, and Permanent War

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The real enemy of America isn’t Russia or China or Iran or any other country. It’s America’s own pursuit of persistent, pernicious, perpetual, and more or less permanent war or preparations for the same. It’s...

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The Gaza Catastrophe

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. It was obvious almost from the get-go what Israel was up to in Gaza. I wrote the article below in early December of 2023. Gaza was to be ethnically cleansed of Palestinians, full stop. Whether by bullets,...

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Trinity, 80 Years Later

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, the first explosion of an atomic device in Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Next month, of course, marks the grim anniversary of the Hiroshima...

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The Russia-Ukraine War Goes On and On

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Roughly three and a half years have passed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the war shows little sign of ending. President Trump has gone from boasting he could end the war in a day to...

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Appeasing the Military-Industrial Complex

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. In an ever-changing world, the one constant in Universe USA is rising Pentagon budgets. For President Trump, a trillion-dollar war budget is something to crow about. Of course, it’s sold as “peace through...

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William Astore asks Am I a ‘Jew-Hater’

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I didn’t know I was a “Jew-hater” until I suggested in a comment that giving Bibi Netanyahu everything he wants (and then some) might not be the same as serving the national interests and security needs of the...

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