The United States Federal Government continues to attempt to control the Middle Eastern region of the planet, sending more soldiers and missiles to both Turkey and Jordan in possible preparation for an invasion of Syria. This comes after US invasions in recent years of Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and other countries in the regions....
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It sounds like something The Onion might run as a comical or satirical ‘news’ piece to make fun of the über-militarist mentality of the people who run the US Empire. However, it’s not April Fool’s Day and this story didn’t come from The Onion. Apparently it is true. The Feds planned to nuke the moon...
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Drones have been a favourite tool of the Barack Obama Administration, which has used them prolifically in bombing villages in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and elsewhere, resulting in large numbers of dead and wounded civilians (see here, here, here, here and here). Now the US White House is putting together a rule-book on when the Federal Government can use drones to...
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To listen to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton one might get the impression that all US citizens are preoccupied with controlling the rest of the planet and spending more money on the Federal military. David Brunnstrom’s recent article for Reuters covers Clinton’s Asia trip and her call for a Federal budget deal in...
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Hunter Wallace is the editor of Occidental Dissent. In this interview Mr Wallace talks about two major reviews he has done recently on efforts by Southerners (in the Antebellum era) and Yankees (in the post-war period) to control the Caribbean. He contrasts the different motivations for these efforts, their forms, levels of success, the continuing trend of US control...
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Washington, DC is playing the only game it seems to know, destabilising a far-off foreign country and jeopardising the lives of vast numbers of people at enormous cost to US tax payers. David Cloud covers the story of US imperialism in Yemen for the LA Times: Nearly 20 years after U.S. Army Rangers suffered...
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In a speech several years ago, Dr Michael Hill, president of the League of the South, plainly and truthfully described the US government as an organised, criminal conspiracy. Given the illegal and undeclared US drone wars around the planet, the thousands of foreign Federal military bases, the refusal of Washington, DC to enforce its...
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Three South Carolinians who were in the SC National Guard (the once-independent State militia which was unconstitutionally seized by the US Federal Government under the Militia Act of 1903) were killed and five more were wounded in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. The Charlotte Observer has the story: The dead are 1st Lt. Ryan...
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The ambitions of the Washington, DC to militarily dominate every square inch of the planet continue to play out in the Middle East. John Glaser writes for Antiwar.com about the Feds’ plans: The United States is planning to maintain significant military presence in the Middle East going forward, including 13,500 US troops in Kuwait,...
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In its ongoing quest to control as much of the planet as possible, the United States Federal Government is sending thousands of its soldiers to Africa. RT America has the story: All of those troops leaving Afghanistan during the next two years will have to go somewhere, right? The US Army will deploy thousands...
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Washington’s widely touted military shift to the Pacific is bringing up the ghosts of bygone days of US imperialism in the Philippines. That earlier occupation of the Philippines spawned a costly military insurgency against US forces and also a home-grown movement called the Anti-Imperialist League led by the likes of Mark Twain, Grover Cleveland and...
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If the US is to continue to spend roughly a trillion dollars a year on militarism it will need a long-term boogey-man to frighten the public into continuing to fork over their money in such extreme amounts. This is just common sense. Once upon a time the Soviet Union played the part beautifully. Their...
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