Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property DUP_PRO_Global_Entity::$notices is deprecated in /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/duplicator-pro/classes/entities/class.json.entity.base.php on line 244
War Archives - Page 3 of 10 - Occasional Planet
Skip to content

Occasional Planet

Progressive Voices Speaking Out

  • Home
  • About
  • Contributors
  • Contact
  • FAQ
  • Click Quotes
  • Who am I?
  • Infographics

Category: War

Iran Nuclear Deal too complicated for TV commercials

July 29, 2015 Arthur Lieber Climate Change, Foreign Policy, Labor and unions, Media, Obama, Politics, Public safety, Science, United Nations, War Leave a comment

A new CNN / ORC poll just revealed that the majority of Americans want Congress to reject the nuclear deal with Iran that the

Continue reading
Putin and Obama opposite world views

Washington’s Putin-did-it conspiracy theory and its escalation of the crisis in Ukraine

March 7, 2015 Madonna Gauding Foreign Policy, Government, Media, Uncategorized, War Leave a comment

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

Continue reading

Ukrainians refusing to fight in U.S. proxy war with Russia

February 11, 2015 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Foreign Policy, War One comment

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.

Continue reading

2014, the year I cut my cable and cancelled the NYT

January 9, 2015 Madonna Gauding Corruption, FBI/NSA/CIA, Foreign Policy, Media, War 2 comments

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

Continue reading

America loves war

January 5, 2015 Susan Cunningham Military, War One comment

I am reading James Risen’s latest book on how the military-industrial complex has morphed into the military-homeland security-intelligence complex. Risen is a New York

Continue reading

Russell Brand analyzes Obama’s ISIS/ISIL war speech

September 22, 2014 Madonna Gauding Foreign Policy, Obama, War One comment

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

Continue reading

Council on Foreign Relations: West is responsible for Ukraine crisis

September 4, 2014 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Foreign Policy, International, War Leave a comment

Given the ongoing, ludicrous, and mostly fictional coverage of Ukraine in the American media that relentlessly depicts Vladimir Putin as an evil, crazed, aggressive,

Continue reading

Which country is the greatest threat to world peace?

July 29, 2014 Madonna Gauding Congress, Obama, Terrorism, Uncategorized, War Leave a comment

At the close of 2013, WIN/Gallup published the results of a massive world opinion poll in which they asked over 66,000 people from 65

Continue reading

Alternative views on Ukraine and the downing of MH-17

July 25, 2014 Madonna Gauding Corporations, Foreign Policy, War Leave a comment

For more credible views on current events, I look to independent scholars and independent investigative journalists who are not employed by corporate media, either

Continue reading

Iraq: Who is behind ISIS?

July 7, 2014 Madonna Gauding Foreign Policy, Uncategorized, War 3 comments

Mainstream media tells us that ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham) is a sort of “al Qaeda Gone Wild”—an army of well-equipped,

Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 2 3 4 5 … 10 Next Posts»

In case you missed it

  • Starship Troopers and the Degeneration of Parody
  • The Fairness Party
  • “Secular Humanists with Jewish Last Names”
  • An (Updated) Honest Preview of the 2022 Midterms
  • Rescuing Susan Collins – Make Judicial Nominees Speak the Truth
  • Doing the world a world of good

A new book by Arthur Lieber. Political Introverts: How Empathetic Voters Can Help Save American Politics.  Buy it here.

Gloria Shur Bilchik’s new book, Election Insiders: Behind the scenes with the people who make your vote count. Kindle edition now available at Amazon.

Follow Occasional Planet on social media

Newsletter
Twitter
RSS
Facebook

Top posts

  • Cutting cable and MSNBC along with it
    Cutting cable and MSNBC along with it
  • Agribusiness: worst way to feed the world
    Agribusiness: worst way to feed the world
  • Bluster and saber-rattling: effective tools of foreign policy?
    Bluster and saber-rattling: effective tools of foreign policy?
  • NBC Nightly News Goes Trivial when the nation needs Insight
    NBC Nightly News Goes Trivial when the nation needs Insight
  • North Sea cod. A wildlife conservation success story
    North Sea cod. A wildlife conservation success story
  • 13 new state laws progressives can applaud
    13 new state laws progressives can applaud