“As Woodrow Wilson and LBJ knew well, the rush of power felt when America engages in a foreign crusade is effortlessly converted to a domestic crusade.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/you-cant-blame-trump-for-the-welfare-warfare-state/
“The origins of the present-day surveillance state can be traced back to the U.S. government’s military occupation of the Philippines in the late 1890s.”
Read more: http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/30/u-s-foreign-intervention-created-domestic-surveillance-state/
“A significant percentage of the world’s violence could be prevented with a flick of a pen by ending the War on Drugs.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-war-on-drugs-is-far-deadlier-than-most-people-realize/
“There are six factors involved: Iran, sales of arms, Israel, the CIA, indifferent cruelty, and the system of empire.”
Read more: https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/55-u-s-senators-voted-genocide-yemen/
“Why did 55 cheerful, well-fed, safe people in suits just vote for mass-murder?”
Read more: http://davidswanson.org/why-55-u-s-senators-voted-for-genocide-in-yemen/
“The statement from the Chinese embassy said Trump’s trade action was ‘self-defeating’ and would hurt American companies, consumers and financial markets. The administration said it would announce in the next 15 days which products would be subject to tariffs.”
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/22/news/economy/china-trade-war-response/index.html
“The breadth of the tariffs remains a contentious topic in the business sector and the White House, with some industries fretting about retaliation and increased costs to American companies and consumers.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/us/politics/trump-china-trade-measures.html
“In a statement after Trump’s signing of the bill, the Chinese embassy said clauses of the legislation ‘severely violate the one-China principle, the political foundation of the China-U.S. relationship’.”
“An earlier theory had once speculated that this new mental disorder is actually the symptom of some sort of airborne virus, since it has infected the leadership of neighboring nations Iran, Iraq, and Syria.”
“Government officials, hiding behind classified material, can easily inflate and even create so-called threats, and they have an obvious incentive to do so.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/02/18/peace-through-strength-is-a-racket