The U.S. Military, apparently eager to test a huge out-dated bomb - anacronym "MOAB" for "Mother Of All Bombs" - dropped one for the first time in the sparsely populated mountains of Afghanistan this week. The goal was apparently to fulfill Trump's earlier campaign...
Angela Keaton vs. Ian Morris Debate: War, What Is It Good For?
Listen to the debate. At this summer's Freedom Fest, our Director of Operations, Angela Keaton, debated historian and archaeologist Ian Morris on his recent book War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots. Morris'...
Grave of the Fireflies
Take this inoculation against warmongering. Think of Madeline Albright’s “price was worth it” quote, the US blockade of Iran, and the Israeli blockade of Gaza, then watch the autobiography-based Studio Ghibli anime Grave of the Fireflies in which a 5 year old girl...
The Neocons: First in War, Last in Peace
I was hired in 1972 by the American Jewish Committee to serve as editor of a new magazine I named Present Tense. My vague assignment was to be more “Jewish” than the well-established and influential Commentary magazine, which, while also parented by the AJC, had...
The Real Head-Drilling “Butchers” of Iraq
The most harrowing scene in American Sniper involves an Iraqi character nicknamed "The Butcher" torturing and executing an Iraqi child by taking a power drill to his skull. The scene lends credibility to the narrative of Chris Kyle as basically a hero facing villains....
Tom Cruise’s “Jack Reacher” on the Chris Kyle Type
"There are four types of people who join the military. For some, it’s a family trade. Others are patriots, eager to serve. Next you have those who just need a job. Then there’s the kind who want a legal means of killing other people." - The title character of the 2012...
A Very Realistic Military Game
Inside Amy SchumerGet More: Comedy Central,Funny Videos,Funny TV Shows Stand up comic and writer Amy Schumer discovers what it means to be "all you can be." For more information on military rape, please read Kelley Vlahos, here, here and here.
Why “we” REALLY nuked both Hiroshima & Nagasaki. In just 3 days.
OLIVER STONE: ... Every school kid -- still, my daughter in her school, in private school, in good school, is still learning this: We dropped the bomb because we had to, because the Japanese resistance was fanatic, and we would have lost many American lives taking...
An Appeal to PEN: Exec. Director Suzanne Nossel Must Go
U.S. Cooption of the Human Rights Movement Continues. "When political people have finished with repression and violence PEN can indeed be forgotten. Until then, with all its flounderings and failings and mistaken acts, it is still, I think, a fellowship moved by...
Although Zero Dark Thirty didn’t get the Oscar – – –
Governments survive on myth. Truth is dangerous. As Chief Nazi "Information Officer" Goebbels put it, "...the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State." While the main stream media averts its eyes,...