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Yves here. Englehardt describes how US war-making has been a continuing exercise starting with World War II. It’s important to recognize that before that, US military budgets were modest both in national and global terms. But with manufacturing less specialized, the US was able to turn a considerable amount of its productive capacity to armaments in fairly short order. A second point is as someone who was in Manhattan on 9/11, I did not experience the attacks as war. I saw them as very impres...

Antiwar.com Original American-Style War til the End of Time?by Tom Engelhardt Posted on Originally posted at TomDispatch. Here’s the strange thing in an ever-stranger world: I was born in July 1944 in the midst of a devastating world war. That war ended in August 1945 with the atomic obliteration of two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by the most devastating bombs in history up to that moment, given the sweet code names “Little Boy” and “Fat Man.” I was ...

American-style war ’til the end of time? A lifetime “at war”... Here’s the strange thing in an ever-stranger world: I was born in July 1944 in the midst of a devastating world war. That war ended in August 1945 with the atomic obliteration of two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by the most devastating bombs in history up to that moment, given the sweet code names “Little Boy” and “Fat Man.” I was the littlest of boys at the time. More than thre...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC © The Outpost I first met Adrian Bonenberger in 2014, after he completed two tours in Afghanistan. Hed published Afghan Post, a painful epistolary memoir about his experiences. Bonenberger started that book a breezy, confident, idealistic young officer, but as he came across more cruelty, waste, and corruption, started to break down, second-guessing not only the mission but himself, i.e. why hed volunteered. At the outset of The Odyssey and The Iliad he read as a ...

The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary. Lectures & learning • The UC San Diego economics department presents “Memory and Financial Decisions” at 8 a.m. Friday, April 16, online. The talk will feature Jessica Wachter, an economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, sharing some of her findings on how the limitations of human memory may contribute to phenomena such as asset p...

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By Bill Van Auken First posted on wsws.org 28 December 2020 The senior US military command is operating at what amounts to a state of high alert in anticipation of a possible coup attempt by President Donald Trump over the next month aimed at overturning the results of the November presidential election. This heightened sense of danger was triggered by an extraordinary December 17 interview given by Gen. Michael Flynn (ret.), Trump’s first national security adviser and now pardoned felon, to ...

Karen, stick around since it is your first day. william ar kin is here to discuss the medias failure of what he calls perpetual war. and connie schultz who is married to senator brown says they are seriously considering a 2020 run. despite that, she is defending elizabeth warren. hear why after this. jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. >>got it. ran out of ink and i have a big meeting today >>and 2 boxes of ...

Issues. >> yeah, amen to that. >> i dont want to just gloss over the surface. >> william arkin, thank you so much for being here. great talking with you. thats all for this edition of "reliable sources." well be right back here this time next week. thanks for joining us. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. chicken! thats rig...

and by the frontline journalism fund, with a grant from millicent bell through the millicent and eugene bell foundation.america. im charles gibson. >> im diane sawyer, and its tuesday, september 11, 2001. ( screaming ) >> just a few moments ago, something believed to be a plane crashed into the south tower of the world trade center. >> a plane has crashed into one of the towers. >> it looks almost like a mushroom cloud. >> were trying to figure out exactly what happened, but clearly so...