A government willing to kill millions and spend trillions on war while borrowing to pay interest on borrowed money will one day collapse of its own weight; as have all empires, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano.
The Normalcy of US Wars
Category: Trump Administration
HIROSHIMA 81: SCOTT RITTER — Let It Remind Us
By allowing the U.S. nuclear posture to shift away from deterrence toward warfighting, all we guarantee is that eventually there will be a warfighting scenario that uses nuclear weapons. And then we all die.
Force-Feeding ICE Detainees
“If they admit openly that there are hunger strikes,” said one lawyer, “they admit that the conditions in detention are so bad that people are willing to forgo food to raise awareness.”
Chris Hedges: Don Corleone Trump
The White House runs a mob-style extortion racket that will bankrupt the country the way the U.S. president bankrupted his casinos.
The Conflict Over the US Dept. of Justice
Two notorious cases came across Todd Blanche’s desk recently and in both he rejected the rule of law and bowed to presidential whim, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
US Merges Wars in Eurasia, West Asia
M.K. Bhadrakumar says that by linking the wars in Iran and Ukraine, the U.S. opened a theater of conflict around the Caspian Sea.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Only One Way Out for Trump
The question ahead of the latest summit with Netanyahu on Tuesday is what the U.S. president will lose — either a war, on the one hand, or on the other, the global economy and the American electorate.
Will Iran Be Another ‘Forever War?’
John Mearsheimer discusses with Chris Hedges the balance of power in the Middle East, U.S. military capacity and possible outcomes of the U.S.-Iran War.
Collapse of US-Israel Bipartisan Consensus
As a legal debate is expanding, the political foundation of unconditional U.S. military support for Israel has entered its most serious crisis in decades, writes Dan Steinbock.
Gulf Arabs & Subsidized Occupation
The pivot of Arab Gulf states away from historical Arab nationalism to Western alignment has sacrificed the Palestinian cause to transactional diplomacy and dynastic preservation, writes M. Reza Behnam.