I’d love to be able to vote for retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor as Defense Secretary, but since that’s not possible I’ll have to be content to follow the many interviews with the much sought-after colonel, who’s all over the Internet (but rarely on the mainstream networks). In addition to his battle experience in the…
An Ailing, Flailing, Failing Empire Lashes Out By William J. Astore Reprinted with permission from Tomdispatch.com . As a retired U.S. Air Force officer, I firmly believe in civilian control of our military. This country should be a nation of laws — not of special interests, oligarchs, or kings. Before committing our forces to battle,…
For the sake of America’s security and world peace, the U.S. should immediately abandon the neocon quest for hegemony in favor of diplomacy and peaceful co-existence. JEFFREY D. SACHS Reprinted from the July 13th edition of Common Dreams under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). In 1992, U.S. foreign-policy exceptionalism went into overdrive. The…
This article is a Twitter posting by Arnaud Bertrand from February 3rd, reprinted here with his permission: by Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand This is an interesting study by Europe’s Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) that demonstrates that much like “the US is the world’s sole military superpower” (spending more on its military than the…