Foreign Policy
We Must Not Forget the U.S. War on Afghanistan
When the Pentagon used NATO to provoke Russia into invading Ukraine, it had to know that one of the great benefits to such an invasion would be that it would enrich U.S. weapons manufacturers, who, of course, are an important, integral, and loyal part of America’s...
The Cuban Embargo Destroys American Liberty
The aim of the Cold War-era U.S. economic embargo against Cuba is to bring regime change to Cuba by inflicting death and impoverishment on the Cuban people, especially in conjunction with Cuba’s socialist economic system. The idea is that if enough Cubans are dying or...
Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis
George Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Let’s remember the Cuban Missile Crisis in order to better understand the situation in Ukraine. In 1898, the U.S. went to war against Spain in an ostensible attempt to...
The Ukraine War is a Racket
“War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the...