“McCain, who is battling brain cancer, writes that the Iraq War ‘can’t be judged as anything other than a mistake, a very serious one, and I have to accept my share of the blame for it.'”
Read more: https://www.vox.com/2018/5/25/17394466/john-mccain-memoir-iraq-war-mistake
“Why the lie? Why keep saying that U.S. soldiers have died protecting our rights and freedoms? Because the truth is too embarrassing and too shameful.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/05/28/memorial-day-is-based-on-a-lie/
“Thanks to a combination of sloppy drafting and clear reluctance to take the executive branch head-on, Corker and Kaine’s proposed AUMF could do the opposite, handing genuinely tyrannical powers over to the president.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/01/ndaa-2018-aumf-detention/
“Nearly every nation welcomes, encourages, and even battles for the import of barrels of oil. Yet every nation obstructs the ‘import’ of labor — the in-migration of human beings.”
Read more: https://liberty-intl.org/2018/05/open-borders-trade-migration-entrepreneurship-and-prosperity/
“It appears that the only way not to be killed, according to Netanyahu, is to meekly accept imprisonment inside the prison of Gaza.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/20/norman-finkelstein-gaza-iran-israel-jerusalem-embassy/
“This wasn’t some newborn infant, you know? This was a baby who could probably sit up independently. I was scared, but I acted quickly.”
Read more: https://www.theonion.com/idf-soldier-recounts-harrowing-heroic-war-story-of-kil-1826048745
“Doctors, teachers, and social workers can be jailed for failing to report child abuse here at home. But, 6,000 miles away, U.S. troops risk their career for protesting pederasty.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/your-tax-dollars-bankroll-afghan-child-molesters/
“That is the purpose of U.S. embargoes and sanctions — to kill innocent people in the hopes of achieving either regime change within a foreign country or a change of attitude within a foreign regime.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/05/21/celebrating-the-cuban-air-crash/
“The country has begun reversing military spending cuts and last year staged its biggest military exercises in nearly a quarter of a century, as well as voting to reintroduce conscription and unveiling joint plans with Denmark to counter Russian cyber-attacks and disinformation.”
“Belief in the Pax Americana persists, along with an appetite for armed intervention. So too does a studied indifference to costs and consequences.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/washingtons-pax-americana-cartel/