Thus far, the US federal government has spent about $9 billion on Ukrainian pensions. If Congress approves President Biden’s next supplemental aid package, the Ukrainian pension payments will continue at a rate of up to $600 million per month. Previous reports of this spending have raised eyebrows. Critics argue that the US should shore up … Continue reading "Should US Taxpayers Cover Ukraine’s Pensions?"
Indiscriminate Bombing Investigations into Israel’s use of 2000-pound bombs in its Gaza campaign have determined that you have to go back to Vietnam to compare the brutality and mindlessness of what Israel is doing. These bombs, many supplied by the US, are being dropped in densely populated areas. Both the New York Times and CNN have provided … Continue reading "Bombing Gaza – Disturbing Comparisons with Vietnam"
New York Post, January 5, 2024 Fauci’s returning to Congress — will he continue his COVID coverup? James Bovard “It’s been proven that when you make it difficult for people in their lives, they lose their ideological bulls – – t, and they get vaccinated.” So declared COVID superstar Anthony Fauci in 2021, championing government […]
Pastor Butch Paugh and I talked about how the government was ravaging American freedom on his radio program. Show was spurred by the New York Post excerpt of the first chapter of Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty. Pastor Butch lives in West Virginia, a state that has a lot more freedom than any […]
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Honoré de Balzac: Keeping the troops out Balzac: Mass executions: Has Europe ever ceased from wars? ==== Honoré de BalzacA Start in LifeTranslator unknown “You know, don’t you, that the British sell powder and munitions of war to all the world, […]
Biden re-election advertisement hypes photo of gallows on January 6. But Biden perpetuated the barbed wire around the US Capitol & continues pillorying Americans’ constitutional rights. My photo from March 2021 on the cover… There are mysteries about how that gallows came to be placed near the Capitol building on the early morning of January […]
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Reprinted from CommonDreams with permission of the author. When Congress returns in January, President Joe Biden will push the case to deepen American complicity in Israel’s war in Gaza through another US armaments package for Israel. Americans should raise their voice in a resounding no. An arms package for Israel is not only against America’s … Continue reading "Saving Israel by Ending Its War in Gaza"
The war in Ukraine is about to enter its 3rd year with no signs of ending, meaning more deaths and destruction for this unfortunate country. It was provoked by those in the U.S. who decided to use Ukrainians for their geopolitical gains which is sort of innovation in military affairs contrary to the U.S. wars … Continue reading "Ukrainian Tragedy That Might Escalate Into Armaggedon"
In the early morning of December 31, 2023, the commercial freighter Maersk Hangzhou came under attack by Houthi fighters from Yemen who were attempting to board it. U.S. Navy helicopters responding to its distress calls were fired upon by the small Houthi boats, according to the U.S. Central Command, and “returned fire in self-defence,” sinking … Continue reading "Smashing the Iran Myth: From Houthi to Hezbollah"
Brian Wilson and I had a rowdy show to start 2024. In his introduction, Brian tagged me as “the only writer today with a vacancy sign on his 12-year molar, and recent recipient of the American Dental Association’s first annual Happy Tooth Award.” I parried with a Monty Python parrot — the best known Python […]
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