Andy Kroll (2023-09-24). What Would Real "National Defense" Look Like? tomdispatch.com A progressive Pentagon? Talk about an oxymoron! The Pentagon continues to grow and surge with ever larger budgets, ever more expansive missions (for example, a Space Force to dominate the heavens and yet more bases in the Pacific to encircle China), and ever greater ambitions to dominate everywhere, including if necessary through global thermonuclear warfare. No wonder it's so hard, to the point of absurdity, to imagine a Pentagon that would humbly and faithfully serve only the interests of "national defense." Yet, as a thought experiment, why not imagine it? What would a progressive Pentagon look like? I'm not t…
Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad, Peoples Democracy. (2023-09-24). Collaboration, Not Confrontation. popularresistance.org The United States has articulated a policy that it wishes to continue this war to severely 'weaken Russia' — as US defence secretary Lloyd Austin and other high officials have been explicitly stating — and, it is claimed, to place Ukraine in a stronger bargaining position for eventual negotiations (or in a weaker position, if the Russian offensive makes an impact, a strong likelihood that is quietly ignored). The policy of trying to 'weaken Russia' through the escalation of the war in Ukraine is the position of the United States and the United Kingdom, and with some variation, their European allies (F…
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We will never know the world that could have been had President John F. Kennedy's assassination never taken place, but an inkling of how things could have been different can be found in the final months of his life. In his new book,