Our friend L. Michael Hager, cofounder and former Director General, International Development Law Organization, Rome posted this in August, principally to speak to the degrading of the rule of law internationally, as the…
Category: The Expanding War on the World
Requiem for the Rule of Law
By L. Michael Hager, originally posted on counterpunch.org The phrase “Rule of Law” (ROL) is frequently referenced in the major media but seldom defined. Google calls it “a principle under which all…
Memory + action for humanity: Sudan, Chile, Afghanistan
A thought from Stephanie Rugoff on the significance of dates: As 9/11 has come to mean in the average U.S. mind the attack on the Twin Towers and the beginning of the “war on…
War Deparment name is not just symbolic
Soon after developing and using nukes to kill and injure hundreds of thousands in Japan, the U.S. renamed the Department of War to the Department of Defense. That name was always a…
20 years of not waiting
What kind of ridiculous scenario is this? Trump and Putin — meeting up to determine the fate of Ukrainians who have been sacrificed to their proxy war 3.5 years — are both…
Inside the U.S. military, there is rot
The presidential candidates distinguish their respective plans to maintain U.S. military dominance over the globe with different language. The Harris program is to “ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting…
U.S. war on the world, which is part of the legacy of the 9/11 attacks
Here in NYC the physical scars of the attacks on 9/11, killing over 3000 people, have been covered over with concrete and marble. But the global scars from the imperialist revenge inflicted…
Biden’s nuclear strategy is in effect
We learned this week that President Biden approved in March a highly classified nuclear strategic plan for the United States that, for the first time, reorients the U.S deterrent strategy to…
We refuse to accept…
To those paying attention, the last two weeks have very sharply posed the danger the U.S. is putting the globe in. Coinciding with the U.S. government’s “empathy” for the suffering of Palestinians,…
On the Watch for War Criminals
In varied roles in the U.S. government, Antony Blinkenorganized acts of aggression against Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Palestine as well as blocking peace negotiations by Ukraine. If you didn’t know the whole…