Donald Rumsfeld
Chosen Leaders, Proven Failures, and Political Debacles
With a few notable exceptions, political leaders are chosen by political leaders, and not by electorates or community-based organizations or popular assemblies. Popular media figures and the so-called ‘pundits’, including academics and self-declared experts and ‘think-tank’ analysts reinforce and propagate these choices.
…AND GUESS WHO ELSE WANTS TO GO TO MARS?
4.71/5 (24) To say that news lately has been a very strange mix of events would be putting it mildly, and in that vein…
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#MorningMonarchy: November 16, 2016
Climate control, organic standards and pizza raids + this day in history w/UNESCO and our song of the day by Moby & The Void Pacific Choir on your Morning Monarchy for November 16, 2016.
#MorningMonarchy: November 14, 2016
Loaded weapon, Purple Revolution and child trafficking + this day in history w/the Marshall crash and our song of the day by A Tribe Called Red w/Saul Williams on your Morning Monarchy for November 14, 2016.
Illegality, Ignorance, and Imperialism
The Illegality of the U.S. War on Iraq
One overlooked lesson of the invasion and occupation of Iraq is that international law–even the most fundamental one embodied in Article 2 of the UN Charter prohibiting use of force in international relations–can be violated with impunity, without legal ramifications or sanctions. Even Henry Kissinger–that embodiment of vicious amorality and imperialist aggression–noted in 2002 that the planned invasion would upset the structure of international relations existing since the Treaty of Westphalia 1648. Never mind, it happened anyway.
… A TRILLION HERE, A TRILLION THERE, AND PRETTY SOON ...
5/5 (15) Remember former Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld's press conference the day before 9/11, when he said that an audit of the Pentagon could not account for $2,200,000,000,000? Well, that little "disclosure" of course was…
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How to Sell a War
“Perception Management” was pioneered in the 1980’s under the Reagan administration in order to avoid the public opposition to future wars that was seen during the Vietnam War.
The United States Department of Defense defines perception management as:
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM MAY 26 2016
4.9/5 (10) ....ahh the price of empire! Bullying Europe, Asia, and just about everyone else, can be expensive. So expensive, in fact, that the USSA's nuclear arsenal is (supposedly) being coordinated by floppy disks...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/26/us/pentagon-floppy-disks-nuclear/index.ht…
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/26/us/pentagon-floppy-disks-nuclear/index.ht……
Pagination
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