Search:

If Vlad wins in Ukr he will say the same thing . . .

The future leaders of what would become ISIS met in those prisons.

"average IQ idiots"?? Never wrote anything like that . .

but some of ya go to great lengths to refuse to grapple with inconvenient facts.

Indeed, they must all be War Bots !!

Here is what the US Vets Admin says about DU munitions -
...

Hmm, while I am about the topics of stolen elections, I should include 1876 and the installation of RetherFraud B. Hays . . .

which crushed democracy for a century and let loose political terror...

Disagree - our corporate overlords knew exactly what they were doing.

They understood.

I seem to vaguely recall you as being pretty sane . . .

why did you come back ??

If it were not for the stolen US elections in 1968, 1980 and 2000 . . .

the US might well have been a social democracy by now.

I'd say that your former PM Paul Keating is of more interest . . .

much more.

What Giovanni da Verrazzano inquired of his navigator in 1520 as they sailed into New York harbor . . .

Staten Island ???

RIP Ed Fracker

Well, maybe, but Ohio has y'all beat on corruption and abolishing public health.

Dr. Strangelove and Catch-22

were not BS

A bloody war is a good "return on investment"?

You must have shares of stock in the war mongering companies.

trying to show that you are ready for middle school ??

go get a incipient-fascism check-up at your social democratic doctor's office . . .

after you hit the dentist.

But you are OK with Murdoch ??

I'd say he is more of a threat to you than Xi, he sure is to the US.

One should not underestimate the importance of the Israel lobby and government among the Neo-Cons . .

and the decision to lie us into Iraq.

Welcome back Sr, Jose . .

I'm still not flicked yet.

Keating is a wise man, standing up for Oz and sanity.

Nuclear confrontations - the only way to win is not to play.

We have very few of his like here in the US; none of our pols stand up to...

And here I thought that they were "de facto" . .

like those ones with Costa Rica ??

which way do y'all want it ??

Only way to address it is to privatize everything . . .

and let our corporate overlords handle it rationally . . .

as only they can

Are you kidding again ?? The US and Israel have several formal defense agreements . .

(these are executive agreements, treaties require 2/3 vote to ratify in the US Senate)

I am trying to...

For a long time, the discussion of reparations for slavery revolved on compensating the SLAVE OWNERS for the loss of their property.

In Wash DC during the Civil War, the feds did pay such...

Admit you made up that blather about "security guarantees". Shame on you.

And back in the 1980's there were charges of Sandinista attacks across the Costa Rican border . . .

But the ticos...

I am with you on that one, and so is Vets For Peace

but that is not what you wrote, is it ??

And BTW there has never been, as far as I know, a human "pacifist society"?

You need to start providing sources for your assertions.

. . . . also not true. Why have you turned to making stuff up suddenly ??

It is not like you. I hope you are OK

Cmplete bull pucky to the max - An agreement about tech assistance is not a "security agreement"..

The Ticos are too smart for that, amigo.

George does not know whereof he speaks, and neither...

Where do you get that stuff ?? There are no such security guarantees between CR and the US.

There are 39 countries and territories with no military.

Come on amigo - that is pretty much fractally wrong. Sorry but you seem to have read little or no anthro . . .

As this book shows, human societies and civilizations have been really quite...

Thanks for the thoughtful and, dare I say, erudite post. Civil even !!

I'm on the road right now, and unable to respond fully or properly.

I'll try to catch up in a few days.

But thanks

Why do you make excuses for the US awful behavior - all they did was overthrow your democracy and back a gang of torturing thugs to govern you.

Inevitable? Bull Pucky !!

So the trustworthiness of all other parties - nato, us, Eu, Ukr, UK, and more . .

are not to be questioned ??

That makes zero sense whatsoever.

. . . and Iraq.

I know my words in that essay were harsh - they even seem to be harsh to me.

And I rather admit that back then I hoped at some level to be at least partially wrong.

But...

Yeah, I saw that essay by Doc Cole. It reminded me of one I wrote 20 years ago about the impending invasion.



[It was rejected by mainstream newspapers as the US invasion of Iraq loomed. Only...

I thought it worth emphasizing - https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law

and I reserve the right to continue to do so . . .

got that ???

The US has made the ICC totally useless in these sorts of cases . . .

They insist that the Hyper-Power is bound by no law at all.

They won't testify; they won't turn over suspects; they won't...

From the Hartmann Report . .

"The CEO of SVB didn’t like the regulations imposed after the 2008 financial meltdown by Congress’ Dodd-Frank legislation, and spent over a half-million dollars...

So y'all want no negotiations, and pretend that the ones that already took place never happened.

And you want more and better weapons added to the mix.

And you are not in the least concerned...

In our part of the US, military recruiters are never seen at elite high schools, but they swarm all over our high school in a town that is 50% poor.

We call it a poverty draft.

US military...

Not quite: THESE are your exact words, "No, it's the 'we don't need no stinking full grasp of history' thread, which, of course opens up opportunities to decry the behavior of any powerful nation...

Well, ummm, those were your exact words, "full grasp", which is why I used those quote mark thingys.

And most of what I have learned came after grad school.

Try out this book, which may...

So you imagine that you have that "full grasp"? It is to laff.

What does that have to do with "keeping agreements"? NOTHING

Russia had massed troops on that border previously and not pulled the invasion trigger.

And be sure to use spell check when you...

Fractal Wrongness post of the month !! - the US of course will play the decisive role in whatever peace emerges - unless we all get blown up.

Chris Hedges gets it about right.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/ukraines-death-by-proxy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=778851&post_id=107826718&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email

You have NEVER offered a shred of evidence that Putin/Russia are less likely to adhere to agreements than, say, the US.

The Mongols, early 1200s, killed so many people that it changed the carbon levels in the atmosphere - so many fewer cooking fires - which can be seen in tree rings from that time.

And I can blame...

Our local oligarchy decided it would be a great idea to put Condo Towers in a historic waterfront park.

They are charging ahead.

A gent from Vets For Peace takes on the Gray Lady and wins.

As he notes, one would have to be really dumb beyond belief to swallow it.
...