Below is a letter in the May 30th, 2015 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, from a retired US Air Force officer. He says what many of
Category: Foreign Policy
Who really won the Cold War?
I recently read that our “representatives” in Congress plan to authorize a yet-to-be named corporation to build 80 to 100 new LRS-B aircraft for
Trying to look sympathetically at Trans-Pacific Partnership
In the 19th Century, the Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle coined the phrase “dismal science” for the field of economics. With the help of new
Republicans’ letter to Iran: Indefensible
Are there no Republican leaders with a sense of decency anymore? Any of them who respect the office of the President, even if they
Washington’s Putin-did-it conspiracy theory and its escalation of the crisis in Ukraine
I am frightened, saddened and angered by the war propaganda published in the US media, particularly the New York Times, the so-called “paper of
Ukrainians refusing to fight in U.S. proxy war with Russia
In case you haven’t noticed, U.S. mainstream media has been spewing out anti-Russian, anti-Putin propaganda since the U.S. backed coup in Kiev last year.
America’s role in spawning terror
I suspect that most Americans don’t realize how much we are responsible for the acts of terror being committed in European countries. I know
2014, the year I cut my cable and cancelled the NYT
For me, 2014 was a year of profound revelation. It’s the year I came to fully understand the depth of the corruption of the United
Russell Brand analyzes Obama’s ISIS/ISIL war speech
When I watched Obama’s first speech on his plans to go after ISIS (now ISIL), I felt physically ill. As I watched his strange
Council on Foreign Relations: West is responsible for Ukraine crisis
Given the ongoing, ludicrous, and mostly fictional coverage of Ukraine in the American media that relentlessly depicts Vladimir Putin as an evil, crazed, aggressive,