We Can’t Blame the Youth
It is time for ‘us’ to stop trying to create the world we want for ‘the youth,’ ask them to forgive us, and then do whatever they ask so we might help them right our wrongs. 14 June 2023 |…
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We are fighting wars in order to secure oil for future wars
The US war machine is said to use an average of 12,600,000 US gallons (48,000,000 L) of fuel per day. We will never see ‘solar-powered’ tanks on distant battlefields. Members of the US Army 1st Division 9th Regiment 1st Battalion…
Iraq War: ‘How does this end?’
Twenty years on, that question has become: ‘How does our exasperation with the failure of nation-building end? Photo: President George W. Bush declares the end of Major combat in Iraq on 01 May 2003. Photo: J Scott Applewhite/AP Barack Obama…
Study: US has 867 military bases around the world
Estimates of the yearly cost to the U.S. of its foreign military bases range from $100 – 250 billion,” according to World Beyond War. Can we even begin to estimate the amount of oil and other fuel it would take…
Backstory: The U.S. Military Budget (2022)
Remember, just about every single military or political problem you see in the world right now stems from the money allocated in these ‘defense’ budgets. 05 April 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News The announcement of US military’s…
US formally ends combat mission in Iraq. Troops, equipment to remain in place
‘Remember, this is a change in the mission, right? Not necessarily a changing physical posture,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said Thursday. Since 2020, the main U.S. focus has been assisting Iraqi forces, not fighting on their behalf. Iraqi security forces…
US House Passes $768 Billion Defense Policy Bill
Lawmakers ‘rejected’ the president’s request to keep military spending essentially flat, and instead overwhelmingly called for increasing it substantially. 07 December 2021 | Catie Edmondson | New York Times WASHINGTON — The House on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a $768 billion…
Want to Go Green? Stop Flying Your F-35 on Family Vacations
Did you know that we can personally save the world if we stop eating meat and cutting down trees? Did you know that the fighter jet you fly on your daily commute can burn through hundreds of gallons of fuel…
The Cost of The US Afghanistan War
‘Most Afghans alive today were not born when the U.S. war began.’ Oddly, we are not told the actual figure of ‘most’ but it is horrifying to contemplate even that vague assessment. Photo: A U.S. flag is lowered as American…
Report: Dangerous levels of ‘forever chemicals’ found at six Great Lakes area military sites
Six military bases in the Great Lakes region, including Michigan’s Selfridge Air National Guard Base, which sits on the coast of Lake St. Clair, have “dangerously” high levels of toxic PFAS chemicals present in their groundwater, according to a new…
Pentagon to ‘evaluate’ safety of ‘nuclear football’
Photo: A White House military aide and member of the US Navy carries a briefcase known as the “football,” containing emergency nuclear weapon codes, as then-President Barack Obama departs from the White House in 2012. The satchel holds the codes…
Bagram Airfield: Last one, turn off the lights
Photo: Afghan security forces member keep watch after the American military left Bagram air base, in Parwan province north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 5, 2021. The U.S. left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years, winding up its “forever…
