President Trump’s decision earlier this month to assassinate Iran’s top military general on Iraqi soil – over the objection of the Iraqi government – has damaged the US relationship with its “ally” Iraq and set the region on the brink of war. Iran’s measured response – a few missiles fired on an Iraqi base after […]

A new study from the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University has estimated that U.S. taxpayers have spent $6.4 trillion on wars and military actions in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia since September 11, 2001. $6,400,000,000,000: Spending $1 million an hour, 24 hours a day, you wouldn’t run out of money for […]

Times being as dark as they are, let me indulge the blame-seekers, and do my best to trace the timeline of provocations and retaliations. Only, to keep it interesting – and because I think it more instructive – I’ll do so in reverse. Since I don’t know when it will happen (perhaps before publication of this […]

The ‘war on terrorism’ is a fraud.  From its inception, America’s latest war was designed to replace the ‘war on communism’ as a pretext for global interventionism.  Furthermore, the ‘war on terrorism’ is a ‘war of terrorism’ being fought to dismember nation states and create ethnically, tribally, or religiously fragmented countries incapable of mounting sustained […]

In 1755, The Reverend Jonathan Mayhew was the first New England minister explicitly to reject the Trinity as well as to reject Calvinist determinism and pessimism. Mayhew’s rationalist philosophical outlook rested squarely on a belief in natural law and a natural-law morality. “Truth and moral rectitude are things fixed, stable, and uniform, having their foundation […]

“The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear […]

Fascism is like that joke about the fish and the water – we don’t recognize it because we’re swimming in it. We’re surrounded by it. We are inseparable from it. From the moment we are born, we breathe it in. We are taught it by our parents, who were taught it by their parents. We […]