Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The replacement for the Rockwell B-1 Lancer, Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, and possibly (by 2040) the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, will be the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider, which had its first flight-test (shown here) on November 10th. It was successful. Defense One called the event “momentous” and “a milestone for the […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The $31.4 trillion U.S. Government debt ceiling was surpassed ten months ago in January. U.S. national debt surged by more than $500 billion in just the past 20 days to reach $33.5 trillion now, according to data provided by the Treasury Department last week. On September 18th, the Treasury reported […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) America and its entire NATO are at war against Russia in the battlefields of Ukraine, and (though its Government and news-media claim otherwise) are losing that war like they did against Afghanistan, and against Libya, and against Iraq, and against Vietnam, and against China, and against Korea. Even without the […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The U.S. Government claims to be enforcing peace throughout the world but engages in far more invasions and coups than any other country in all of history ever has. The U.S. Congressional Research Service’s list of U.S. invasions (including increases in existing invasions) lists and briefly describes 297 such invasions […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The clearest example of this is today’s UK Government as described by a renegade former UK Ambassador, Craig Murray, headlining on July 19th about the next general election there between the conservative Keir Starmer who leads the Labour Party versus the conservative whomever will be leading the Conservative Party; he […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) In a bold display of the bipartisan determination of the U.S. Congress after 9/11 to lock-in forever the bonanza that the Congress temporarily granted to America’s ‘Defense’ industries (manufacturers of war-weapons, etc.), the proposed congressional Resolution, on July 19th, “On the Amendment (Paul Amdt. No. 222 )”, aiming “To express […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The deluded, stupid, and/or lying, President of the United States, said, of the Ukraine war, on July 13th, that “Putin has already lost the war. … There is no possibility of him winning the war in Ukraine. He’s already lost that war.” As-if wishing it so will make it so. […]
On July 11th, the Washington Post headlined “Sen. Tommy Tuberville relents and says white nationalists are racist”, and reported that the Republican U.S. Senator from the (racist) state of Alabama was finally forced, by the Senate’s leading Democrat Charles Schumer from the state of New York, to say publicly that “White nationalists are racists” and […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On June 30th, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting headlined “Report Shows How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative on Ukraine” and well summarized a Quincy Institute study on June 1st, “Defense Contractor Funded Think Tanks Dominate Ukraine Debate”, which had found that the overwhelming majority of the people whom America’s […]
Eric Zuesse On June 14th, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg repeatedly insisted upon facilitating Ukraine’s becoming a member-nation of that marketing organization for the weapons that are produced by U.S.-and-allied weapons-manufacturers, but America’s President Joe Biden made clear on June 17th that he will not allow softening the existing requirements in order to admit Ukraine […]
