China is also believed to have long eyed the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a possible host country for another base. Currently, Beijing's only other significant overseas military base is in the East African country of Djibouti.
A new article in The Guardian details the enthusiasm among the masters of Wall Street for the wars in Gaza (and Ukraine), issuing "buy" orders all around for US weapons manufacturer stocks. Meanwhile, Gaza's largest refugee camp was blown to pieces y
Retired US Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler said it first and said it best: "War is a racket. It always has been..."
But what often goes unsaid is his next sentences:
"It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely t
"Why is everyone saying Gen-Z is going to get drafted? Like - no - the f*ck we are not - and you know why I know that - because we're just going to say No. Like how are they going to actually force us to get up and go to war," a Gen-Zer on TikTok sai
Talking completely to Wilfred Frost forward of a gathering of finance ministers in Luxembourg, the US Treasury secretary mentioned the economic system and public funds have been in good condition to make sure backing for US pursuits overseas.
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Ukraine farmland, and its grain production that fed the world, is now owned by mega-corporations based in the US and EU, including Vanguard Group, Kopernik Global Investors
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The military industrial complex, which has established itself as the "solution" to all of our worldly problems (at taxpayer expense, of course), has mired the nation in endless wars abroad waged by U.S. military servicepeople who have been reduce
There's been an astonishingly brazen propaganda push to normalize war profiteering in Ukraine as Kyiv coordinates with the arms industry and western governments to convert the war-ravaged nation...
Had Joe Biden not committed the Pentagon and U.S. military/industrial complex to help Ukraine fight its hopeless war, this conflict would have been over in a couple of months and hundreds of thousands of lives (mostly Ukrainian) would have been spare
Why is the U.S. refusing to call a halt to the Ukraine madness? Why can't an era of "Peaceful Coexistence" in Europe and the world be declared or at least sought? How about détente with Russia? With Russia and China? What is wrong with that?
In the Ukraine war, we have seen how the state uses lies and propaganda to get us into war. It will stop at nothing to pursue its nefarious schemes. To understand fully how the state operates, it's essential to understand what happened at Pearl Har
A recent The Duran episode is one not to be missed for these individuals, with prominent nonintervention proponent Paul joining hosts Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris in discussing topics including both the noninterventionist US foreign policy su
Years before emerging as Kiev's top private weapons trafficker, ex-legislator Serhiy Pashinsky played a key role in the 2014 US-backed coup which toppled Ukraine's democratically-elected president and set the stage for a devastating civil war.
The Defense Logistics Agency Energy, on behalf of the US Air Force, is serious about decarbonizing a military base in Alaska. Surprisingly, the focus is on something other than solar or wind but on mini-nuclear reactors.
A US official has informed The New York Times on Thursday that the Pentagon plans to begin training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets inside the US, as part of a program which could start as early as September.
Under a US$235-million contract, the US Air Force has tapped JetZero to build a prototype blended wing aircraft as a way to advance and demonstrate the capabilities of the technology that could lead to a new class of military transports.