‘Peace Through Strength’ Is a Racket
"Government officials, hiding behind classified material, can easily inflate and even create so-called threats, and they have an obvious incentive to do so."
"Government officials, hiding behind classified material, can easily inflate and even create so-called threats, and they have an obvious incentive to do so."
"Every military leader in history has wanted more resources at his or her disposal. U.S. secretaries of defense have been especially adamant since 2011, when the Budget Control Act first set limits on both defense and domestic spending."
"The nodes were purchased by the Seattle Police Department via a $3.6 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security. Despite the victory of having the city remove the devices, it should be noted that the cost to take down the equipment will come from taxpayers."
"Reports indicate that the group was caught trying to harness the lab's supercomputer to mine cryptocurrency."
"The U.S. attack is completely illegal under such international law as exists. The U.N. charter is very clear on that. One cannot help but reach the conclusion that something is dreadfully wrong in our system. Germany, Italy and Japan, when they were fascist-controlled, similarly launched expansionary and aggressive moves against various regions."
"More effective use of spreadsheets won’t solve the underlying problems of America’s wars or cure an addiction to policies that continue to fail."
"They say the strategy led by DoD policy wonks could lead to dangerous nuclear escalation."
"It would be a worrying development if any president of the United States announced, with little debate or discussion, a plan both to build more tactical nuclear weapons and use them in response to non-nuclear attacks; a nuclear strategy that makes the use of nukes more, not less, likely. But when that president is Donald J. Trump, it should be deemed a national, if not a global, emergency."
"The Defense Department is preparing for possible preventive attacks on North Korean nuclear and missile facilities, supposedly intended to prevent the Kim Jong-un regime in Pyongyang from developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of delivering nuclear warheads to the continental United States. There are many indications that the Pentagon is putting in place the means to conduct such an attack—and recent enhancements to the GBU-57 bomb are among the most alarming of those."
"So, why is Vice-president Mike Pence attending the Winter Olympics in South Korea? Is it because he’s a sports fan who just wants to enjoy the quadrennial spectacle of the Olympic games? Unfortunately, no. Pence is going to the games for political purposes. He intends to use them as an opportunity to level a propaganda attack against North Korea, the communist regime that the U.S. government has long been committed to regime-changing."