Even though the U.S. has been warring in Iraq for 24 years now, The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs says the war there and in Syria against ISIS could go another four years. That is a wildly arbitrary guess since so far, the longer we have been at war in the region the...
Sony Pictures went through a nasty hacking attack this past week. It ground the studio to a halt for awhile, and also led to the leaks of some upcoming movies. So whodunnit? Believe it or not, it sounds like it was North Korea. Sony speculated that North Korea was...
The village of Oakley, Michigan is easy to miss, even when you're driving through it. There's one stop light, and on either side are a gas station and a tavern/restaurant. 290 people call it home. It's also the home of one of the most bizarre secret police...
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was supposed to steer the Pentagon away from a decade of war, including bringing US troops home from Afghanistan and paving the way for a reduction in the Pentagon budget. Instead, the Obama administration has opted for remaining in...
Originally posted at TomDispatch.The money should stagger you. Journalist James Risen, author of Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, a revelatory new book about the scammers, counterterrorism grifters, careerist bureaucrats, torture con artists, and...
Here is a short YouTube describing how using Bitcoin instead of fiat currency can help stop financing the War Machine as well as promoting global trade and good relations. For more information on Bitcoin, check out Roger Ver's talk on Bitcoin and how it can stop the...
Why was I reminded of Vietnam on Saturday when Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Iraq to “get a firsthand look at the situation in Iraq, receive briefings, and get better sense of how the campaign is progressing” against the Islamic...
The US war against ISIS couldn't be going much worse. ISIS continues to gain in Iraq, despite soaring US ground deployments into the nation, and the Syria air war has backfired so bad its wiped out most of the US allies, and brought al-Qaeda, once an ISIS rival, into...
How the U.S. Department of Justice Makes Murder Respectable, Kills the Innocent and Jails their DefendersPolitical language can be used, George Orwell said in 1946, “to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure...
President Obama has ordered 1500 more troops to Iraq, doubling down on the U.S. presence already there. And while the question of the constitutionality of this move in the absence of a war declaration is an important one, Ron Paul reminds us that the question of the...
