The Disease of Permanent War / By Chris Hedges

May 19 2009 by hijabella in IMPERIALISM, U.S. POLITICIANS |3 Comments

THE USS VINCENNES, AN AEGIS-CLASS CRUISER (above) was involved in an incident in which the ship shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988 resulting in 290 civilian deaths. “The hollowness of our liberal classes, such as the Democrats, empowers the moral nihilists. A state of permanent war means the inevitable death of liberalism. Dick Cheney may be palpably evil while Obama is merely weak, but to those who seek to keep us in a state of permanent war it does not matter. They get what they want. Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote Notes from the Underground to illustrate what happens to cultures when a liberal class, like ours, becomes sterile, defeated dreamers. The main character in Notes from the Underground carries the bankrupt ideas of liberalism to its logical extreme.”

The Cost of Running a Global Empire / By James Quinn

April 6 2009 by Greanville Patrice in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT |1 Comment

“The U.S. war machine keeps turning. As we enforce our will on foreign countries, we produce more people who hate us. Just when you think the U.S. government is beginning to make sense by withdrawing troops from Iraq, they make the terrible decision to shuttle 21,000 more troops into the Afghan calamity. At a cost of $3.2 billion per month, we will throw another $38 billion down a rat hole in a country that has no vital strategic importance to the United States. Barack Obama is doing this to prove that he is a true statesman….”