Category Archives: War and Peace

What part of “Listen to me!” didn’t you understand?

Posted on September 24, 2015 by johnrachel

It appears that there is one sane person running for president, and that person is to an impressive degree “listening” to the American public and willing to fight for a better life for all Americans, not just the privileged few. Unfortunately, Mr. Sanders doesn’t understand that the policies he currently embraces on defense and international relations will sabotage his noble intentions and the quality of life for everyday Americans will continue to decline, if we don’t end up in a nuclear war with Russia and/or China, in which case there won’t be any life on Earth at all. It’s up to us to straighten him out! Sanders has some solid ideas and a good heart. But on the military and American empire, unfortunately he’s dead wrong. If he wants our votes, we should put him on notice. He must rethink these critical items and clean up his act. Then and only then can we give him our 100% support. Continue reading →

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What Passes for Rationality in the Modern World

Posted on September 16, 2015 by johnrachel

Who in their right mind would come up with MAD __ mutual assured destruction __ then destabilize it with policies which replace its precarious, paranoid, hair-trigger brinkmanship with more confrontation and a renewed arms race? Continue reading →

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Nothing new . . . but who knew or even knows now?

Posted on August 19, 2015 by johnrachel

Sometimes it is difficult to make sense out of some of the foreign policy decisions our leaders make. Why did we attack Iraq twice? Why did we destroy Libya? Why did we start the crisis in the Ukraine? Why do we overthrow the democratically elected leaders of some nations, court the friendship and favor of monarchists and tyrants? Why are we now aggressively provoking conflict with Russia and confronting China? This book goes the long mile toward explaining what underlies some of America’s most nefarious activities on the international front. Continue reading →

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Justin Bieber is the new Hitler!

Posted on July 15, 2015 by johnrachel

If someone in the State Department or the White House decides that Justin Bieber’s music truly sucks, or even if they just take a disliking to that froofy, pseudo-pompadour hair style he alternates with his Beetle boy look, you can be assured of the headline the next day, front page of the New York Times: Justin Bieber is the new Hitler! Continue reading →

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Another Average Run-of-the-Mill Benevolent Dictator

Posted on July 10, 2015 by johnrachel

Ideas can be dangerous. The U.S. is the world leader in stamping out what it considers dangerous ideas and murdering those who spread them.

Killary Clinton: “We came. We saw. He died.” Continue reading →

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The Race To A Vanishing Point

Posted on June 22, 2015 by johnrachel

The U.S. plunges the world toward World War III while Americans play on their smart phones and watch bad TV. Continue reading →

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“We want our money back!”

Posted on May 31, 2015 by johnrachel

We have been ripped off! Now we want our money back. All $4.82 trillion of it! Continue reading →

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Bulging Waste Line

Posted on May 28, 2015 by johnrachel

What follows here is not an argument for reducing government. It is evidence that we need …
Good government. Smart government. Honest government. Visionary government. Representative government. I am focusing on profligate defense spending and pursuit of unnecessary war. Continue reading →

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War! . . . What is it good for? . . . Profits!

Posted on May 24, 2015 by johnrachel

Unfortunately war is good for something . . . profits! Continue reading →

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Plausible Deniability

Posted on May 20, 2015 by johnrachel

The latest diplomatic initiative by the U.S. in what appears to be the beginning of a welcome and very necessary rapprochement with Russia, requires withholding quick judgment and maintaining a judicious eye. Continue reading →

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