On April 17, 2012, as millions of Americans were filing their income tax returns, the highly-respected Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released its latest study of world military spending. In case Americans were wondering where most of their tax money — and the tax money of other nations — went in the previous year, […]
Posts Tagged ‘U.S.’
New Record for Military Spending
April 24, 20122500 US marines to Australia
April 14, 2012The first rotation of about 200 US marines has arrived in Australia on a six-month training deployment. A total of 2,500 troops are expected to arrive over the next few years in Darwin to enhance the US’s military presence in the Asia-Pacific. Despite the fact that the US’s final military presence in the country is […]
Economic rape in the United States
April 7, 2012It is an understatement that it now takes two spouses working to equal the wages of a one-income family of forty years ago. Western wages have plummeted so low that a two-income family is now (on average) 15% poorer than a one-income family of 40 years ago. The average standard of living in the U.S. […]
Protesting the US Homeland Battlefield Bill
March 31, 2012A group of political activists and journalists launched a legal challenge to stop an American law they say allows the US military to arrest civilians anywhere in the world and detain them without trial as accused supporters of terrorism. The seven figures, who include ex-New York Times reporter Chris Hedges, professor Noam Chomsky and Icelandic […]
Experts say US ignorance is major threat to US security
March 30, 2012At a hearing to discuss irregular warfare, it wasn’t the threat of terrorists, drug cartels or violent global activists that prompted the biggest warning. Rather, the greatest threat is the hubris of U.S. leaders who believe the whole world loves America and its message of peace, strength and stability, a panel of warfare experts told […]
The Lack of Outrage Over the Murder of a US Citizen
March 20, 2012A U.S. citizen is dead and the U.S. government killed him. Without trial. Without due process. Without hesitation. And many of those who loudly deplored George W. Bush for smaller excesses seem content to allow Barack Obama this larger one. [Regardless of whether one mourns] the death of Anwar al-Awlaki … the means of his […]
American Military Atrocities and War in General
March 16, 2012I remember being a young Marine recruit. We unlearned civilization. How to clap a hand over a sentry’s mouth while inserting your Kbar in his kidney; agony, shock and instant blood loss prevent a struggle. We ran in formation shouting “Kill! Kill! Kill!” We learned flame throwers, how to burn the enemy alive. We learned […]
US Federal Debt 130 Billion Dollars More than Last Month
March 14, 2012The size of the U.S. national debt and the rate at which the debt is accumulating will lead the United States to ruin — no other outcome is mathematically possible. As of February 2012, according to monthly U.S. Treasury statements, our national debt is $15.48 trillion — about a $130 billion more from the month […]
Life on Two Dollars a Day in Third World America
March 13, 2012The U.S. is beginning to look like the Third World. Latest poverty statistics that show the number of American families with an income of less than two dollars per person per day more than doubled between 1996 and 2011, from 636,000 to 1.46 million. Note, those are households, not people. The number of children, alone, […]
11 thousand Iranian missiles aimed at Israel and US bases
March 11, 2012Tehran’s ambassador to Lebanon says Iran has prepared itself to launch about 11,000 missiles at Israel and U.S. bases in the region if they do a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the Lebanese media reported. “We have prepared ourselves and currently have 11,000 missiles ready to launch at the U.S. and Israel and their interests […]
