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Biden Shelves Diplomacy To Confront Russia and China

On September 8, 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared that the US was getting tired of waiting for Iran: "I’m not going to put a date on it but we are getting closer to the point at which a strict return to compliance with the JCPOA does not reproduce the benefits that that agreement … Continue reading "Biden Shelves Diplomacy To Confront Russia and China"

Palestinian Prison Break: Israel Has Every Reason To Fear This Bold Move

It would be impossible for Palestinians not to revel in six prisoners carrying out a daring escape from one of Israel’s most secure and modern jails. Israel may be working overtime to demonize the six men as “terrorists”, but for Palestinians, they are among its finest and bravest foot soldiers. They are prisoners of war, … Continue reading "Palestinian Prison Break: Israel Has Every Reason To Fear This Bold Move"

Biden cements alliances with Australia and Great Britain to secure Pacific, ward off China

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|September 16, 2021 Protest march Saturday in support of MAGAt January 6 defendants is wild card that could go in any direction: Gen. Honore warns DC authorities to be ready for anything; Following patriotic example of Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger during the last weeks of [...]

Top US Generals Blatantly Lied About Afghanistan and Iraq Wars To Advance Their Careers

According to the Pentagon’s annual reports on military justice, there have been more than 1.3 million cases of discipline in the US military since 2001, mostly relating to the so-called "War on Terror." But as The Intercept highlighted, the generals who misled Congress and the American public about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have … Continue reading "Top US Generals Blatantly Lied About Afghanistan and Iraq Wars To Advance Their Ca

To Counter Terror, Abolish War

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was among a small group of U.S. citizens who sat on milk crates or stood holding signs, across from the US Mission to the United Nations in Manhattan. We had been fasting from solid foods for a month, calling for an end to brutal economic warfare waged … Continue reading "To Counter Terror, Abolish War"

My Speech on Biden’s Vaccination Mandate at Hillsdale College Constitution Day

UPDATE:  The video of the livestream presentation has been removed by Hillsdale College.   The video will be reposted after it is edited back in Michigan. xxxx Thanks to Hillsdale College for inviting me to thrash Biden’s vaccine mandate at their Constitution Day Celebration.  Thanks to Ronald J. Pestritto for his kind introduction.  My 25 minute […]

PAGES 2019: 0-30N Proxies

Next, the PAGES2019 0-30N latband. Their CPS reconstruction (CPS) for the 0-30N latband (extracted from the global reconstruction) looks almost exactly the same as reconstructions for the 0-30S and 30-60S latbands. However, none of the actual proxies in this latband look remotely like the latband reconstruction, as I’ll show below. In the course of examining […]

Wars of Unintended Consequences

Originally posted at TomDispatch. TomDispatch began with the Afghan War — with a sense I had from its earliest moments that it was a misbegotten venture of the first order. Here, for instance, is a comment I wrote about that disaster in December 2002, a little over a year after the U.S. began bombing and … Continue reading "Wars of Unintended Consequences"