From Ochelli.com Two old friends and one news story make two hours go by fairly quickly. Regular Guy News returns to the Ochelli Effect along with Regular Joe. Joe also discussed the dirty business of retail customers. Porkins arrived in the second hour to flip through his War On Terror card collection and help Chuck […]
From Ochelli.com Glenn Viklund filled in for Miks Swanson on the Tuesday Show. TYRs’ Day is the best day to discuss the doom and gloom of the global economic contraction currently happening. Why is inflation not being represented in the statistical analysis of most economists? Is Chuck overstating things based on his personal experiences? How […]
From Ochelli.com Mike Swanson gave us an education on the stock market. Is a Corona Virus enough disruption to topple the grand casino? What is a junk bond? When did value lose touch with balance sheets? Do any of the numbers make any sense? Have the weapons of mass distraction in the MSM fooled everyone […]
Any deal with the Taliban will resemble the other retreats from the anti-colonial and counterinsurgency conflicts the U.S. has fought since 1945, writes Danny Sjursen. By Danny Sjursen TomDispatch.com Could President Donald Trump end the Afghan war someday? I don’t know…Read more →
America’s senior generals find no exits from endless war, writes William J. Astore for TomDispatch. By William J. Astore TomDispatch.com “Veni, Vidi, Vici,” boasted Julius Caesar, one of history’s great military captains. “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Then-Secretary of State…Read more →
(ANTIWAR.COM) — The Pentagon’s leadership has long opposed using body counts as war propaganda, particularly in Afghanistan, fearing that it would echo the failed strategy of Vietnam, and alienate people around the world. But in recent months, efforts to sell President Trump on the Afghan War have changed that, with officials now eager to get gaudy death tolls out […]
(ANTIWAR.COM) — Seventeen years into the war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon has gone through several periods of trying to sell the American public on the idea that the war isn’t a disastrous failure. This is increasingly difficult, because the war is going really badly. But lying works sometimes, and the Pentagon has made that standard operating procedure in Afghanistan. […]
(CR) — How did the war in Afghanistan start? And how did NATO become involved in this conflict? These details are never discussed because they have for nearly two decades been hidden behind a shroud of secrecy. But now, after nearly two decades of lies, the remarkable truth about the secret documents that helped launch the Afghan war […]
Brushing aside warnings that he was about to unleash Armageddon in the Middle East, George W. Bush launched an unprovoked attack on Iraq on March 19-20, 2003, the ramifications of which we are still grappling with today, Nat Parry writes. By…Read more →
