From The Grayzone:
Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor on the World War III scare in Poland and the reported Pentagon-State Department split over Ukraine-Russia peace.
After accusing Russia of firing missiles into Poland — and triggering calls from Ukraine for direct NATO military intervention — US officials are now acknowledging that Ukrainian air defenses were likely responsible.
Douglas Macgregor, a retired Army Colonel and former senior Pentagon adviser, says the Poland scare underscores why the US top military officer, Gen. Mark Milley, has split from White House bureaucrats to call for diplomacy with Russia in order to end the Ukraine war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of_XSjH3uHg
Mark Milley has surprised me. A very welcome and pleasant surprise. I’m sure we don’t see eye to eye on all things foreign policy, but he is the only voice of reason calling for peace and negotiations.
Sorry, no Faith in Miley!
June 22, 2022 U.S. Still Spends More on Military Than Next Nine Countries Combined
The world spent over $2 trillion on militaries for the first time in 2021, an all-time high after seven consecutive years of increases, according to the latest data on global military expenditures compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2022/06/22/us-still-spends-more-military-next-nine-countries-combined/
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The world spent over $2 trillion on militaries for the first time in 2021, an all-time high after seven consecutive years of increases, according to the latest data on global military expenditures compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2022/06/22/us-still-spends-more-military-next-nine-countries-combined/
https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/us_vs_world_2021.png
Aug 19, 2022 What is imperialism? Exploring theories of hegemony (with historian Aaron Good)
A discussion of different theoretical concepts of imperialism and hegemony and how they relate to the United States empire.
https://youtu.be/OYywVTzV524
The US calls itself exceptional and overspends on the military and forever wars. It should shut down bases, abroad, dissolve NATO, negotiate with Putin and Zelensky to end the war in Ukraine and end tension with China.
There is nothing exceptional about the U.S.except for the worlds largest prison system ever on the whole planet. Even more than Communist China.
Sep 19, 2015 Enter the biggest prison system in history
The Empire holds by far the most prisoners than any other country on earth, in both absolute numbers and per capita. Abby Martin explores the dark reality of conditions in America’s prisons, who is warehoused in them, and how things got this way.
https://youtu.be/bJQBTTLUQZQ
“There is nothing exceptional about the U.S.except for the worlds largest prison system ever on the whole planet. Even more than Communist China.”
The US regime has the highest admitted per capita incarceration rate in the world.
But some regimes are more opaque than others in terms of what they admit (or just can’t successfully hide). I wouldn’t bet the ranch on the US having a higher per capita incarceration rate than China. We just don’t, and probably can’t, know.
There is allot of propaganda in government schooling. I have been all over this for over a decade, and appreciate your time Knapp.
Nov 7, 2022 Rattling the Bars: Prison slavery in America
This year, 5 US states are considering amendments to their constitutions to remove language similar to the 13th Amendment. Historian Robert T. Chase joins Rattling the Bars to discuss what altering these state constitutions would really mean for incarcerated people.
https://youtu.be/ylgQvLXAJKo
June 4, 2020 The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?
Private prison companies used to view California as one of their fastest-growing markets.” (The Guardian, September 13, 2019). “In FY 2018, DHS received $3 billion for custody operations. At least 75 percent of the detention facilities for which DHS contracts are privately owned or operated. Despite this level of funding, conditions at these detention centers remain dangerous, and detainees’ rights are routinely violated.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289
Only a decade? Welcome, newbie!
I am not a newbie. What does that even mean? Sep 11, 2015 Mass Incarceration, Visualized
In this animated interview, the sociologist Bruce Western explains the current inevitability of prison for certain demographics of young black men and how it’s become a normal life event.
http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/404890/prison-inherited-trait/
I’ve been an opponent of the carceral state for 30 years or so, not just “more than a decade.”
As an alternative to noticing that I posted a true statement, you’re trying to teach grandpa to suck eggs.
Better late than never!
we have no legit government in USA any longer and we are lawless on every level !
Thanks for time Down to Earth, you are exactly correct and I know when it was transformed as well.
Nov 22, 2013 Thomas DiLorenzo – The Revolution Of 1913
From the Tom Woods show (podcast on iTunes),Loyola economics professor Thomas DiLorenzo discusses three events from 1913 that greatly escalated the transmogrification of America from the founder’s vision (limited government) to its current state (unlimited government).
https://youtu.be/Fj4HyL8pOy0
Only someone who has seen war, up close, in combat, or knows a person who has and is willing to talk about it, understands that detente and not war should be the answer . Milley has his issues, as do many military officers, but on this he is right on.
Lt. Col. Doug Macgregor is the best analyst out there. If only he could become President!
I will vote for him !