Washington’s Pax Americana Cartel
"Belief in the Pax Americana persists, along with an appetite for armed intervention. So too does a studied indifference to costs and consequences."
"Belief in the Pax Americana persists, along with an appetite for armed intervention. So too does a studied indifference to costs and consequences."
"Torture was illegal in 1946. It was illegal in 1968. And it was illegal in 2002, no matter what Bush Justice Department officials John Yoo and Jay Bybee said."
"The sharpest plunge in America’s press freedom rating occurred during the Obama administration — thanks in part to its zealous prosecutions of journalists. Trump is continuing policies started by earlier presidents."
"A seemingly unsupervised CBP agent improperly attempted to force Twitter to produce records on a particular user without a court order — completely disregarding whether the summons was legal."
"Now as the death toll tragically stands at many tens of thousands, and with a subsequent U.N. report from 2017 documenting in detail 'the killing and maiming of children' on a mass scale, Blitzer's words are even more revealing of the role that CNN and other major American networks play in enabling and excusing U.S. and allied partners' war crimes abroad."
"The U.S. embraced defeated German and Japanese doctors who intentionally drowned, gassed, suffocated, froze, burned, poisoned, infected, shot, stabbed and dissected living men, women and children to death to advance its own weapons of mass destruction programs."
"President Trump will come to regret the day he let the neocons take over his foreign policy."
"The White Helmets were founded in Turkey by a former British MI5 officer named James Le Mesurier. The group has received at least $55 million from the UK government and an additional $23 million from the U.S. government, both of whom have regime change interests in the region."
"Where the U.S. stands on this 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq: in a war without end, without boundaries, without limits on time or geography."
"On yesterday’s deadline, Trump dutifully issued an executive decree ordering at least three more years of official secrecy."