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Call It the National (In)security Budget

Antiwar 08 Jul 2022

Just in case you hadn’t noticed, three decades after the old Cold War ended, with a distinct helping hand from Russian president Vladimir Putin, the Biden administration has been playing its part admirably in ramping up this country’s newest version of the old Cold War into an ever more militarized set of confrontations.

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America’s $1.4 Trillion ‘National Security’ Budget Makes Us Ever Less Safe

Scheerpost 08 Jul 2022

Just in case you hadn’t noticed, three decades after the old Cold War ended, with a distinct helping hand from Russian president Vladimir Putin, the Biden administration has been playing its part admirably in ramping up this country’s newest version of the old Cold War into an ever more militarized set of confrontations.

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Joe Biden is probably the least militaristic president of the last 40 years

Raw Story 07 Jul 2022

He has ended a major foreign war and reduced American involvement in overseas interventions across the board ... During his campaign, he promised to end the “forever wars” ... When you lose a war, you’re forced to watch enemies win ... Biden’s successful, admirable restraint of the drone war has largely been drowned out by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Blake Masters, Nazi-Adjacent Arizona Republican Senate Candidate

New York Magazine 07 Jul 2022

And he has echoed far-right positions on foreign policy, opposing American entry into World War II and blaming American entry into World War I on a secret plot directed by the “Houses of Morgan and Rothschild.”. Comments like these attracted the admiration of not only Trump, who endorsed him, but also, predictably, the Nazis ... Masters is not a Nazi.

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Martin’s Ukraine visit is something of a double-edged sword

The Irish Times 07 Jul 2022

Exploiting an ongoing and brutal war for domestic reasons certainly seems crass ... Swashbuckling, grand rhetoric and appeals to higher values all suit someone defending a nation at war ... Martin was among the most vocal supporters of Ukraine’s bid for EU membership, and Ireland has been admirable in its policy towards Ukrainian refugees.

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'National insecurity': Military budget tops $1.4 trillion

Alternet 07 Jul 2022

Just in case you hadn’t noticed, three decades after the old Cold War ended, with a distinct helping hand from Russian president Vladimir Putin, the Biden administration has been playing its part admirably in ramping up this country’s newest version of the old Cold War into an ever more militarized set of confrontations.

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The Irish Times view on Ireland and Ukraine: a show of solidarity

The Irish Times 06 Jul 2022

Yesterday it was the turn of Taoiseach Micheál Martin, who met Zelenskiy in the capital and visited memorials to those killed in the war ... Dublin has taken an admirably clear stance on the war from early on ... But the war remains dangerously poised, its outcome uncertain.

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Why Joe Biden is probably the least militaristic president of the last 40 years

Alternet 06 Jul 2022

He has ended a major foreign war and reduced American involvement in overseas interventions across the board ... During his campaign, he promised to end the “forever wars” ... When you lose a war, you’re forced to watch enemies win ... Biden’s successful, admirable restraint of the drone war has largely been drowned out by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Ukraine and the large vs small conflict model - opinion

The Jerusalem Post 06 Jul 2022

The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, recently described the current phase of the war in Ukraine as a “very severe battle of attrition, almost World War I-like.” This description of the reality of the conflict implies key aspects that deserve attention ... But now, three months into the war, he backtracked.

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No More War: Activist Kathy Kelly on Resistance and Regeneration Conference

Santa Cruz Sentinel 06 Jul 2022

International peace organization World Beyond War is hosting an online conference this weekend to discuss eliminating militarism and building cooperative, life-enhancing systems. The No War 2022 ... wars and help alleviate suffering ... Navy Admiral Charles Richard said that every time they play out a war game with China, the United States loses.

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Hard Right rising

Hot Air 05 Jul 2022

They admire him for his authoritarian stance, his unashamed promoting of one-party rule, and his campaigns against immigration and gay rights ... Even more troubling is the American Right’s shared admiration of Orban’s partner, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prior to the war in ...

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Exclusive: Kissinger sees 'painful' need for better leaders. Will they arrive in time?

Yahoo Daily News 05 Jul 2022

De Gaulle was sent into exile by war ... During his tenure on Nixon's White House staff and in his Cabinet, Kissinger was a controversial figure, hailed by admirers as a brilliant theorist of realpolitik but reviled by critics as an alleged war criminal for the consequences of his policies.

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Chris Hedges: The Disappearance of Meghan Marohn

Consortium News 05 Jul 2022

Meghan disliked Ernest Hemingway for his misogyny and cult of masculinity, which mar Hemingway’s work, but I admire Hemingway for his writing on war, which is some of the best anti-war literature of the 20th century, as well as for his lyricism and rhythm.

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Ukraine’s moral waters get muddier and bloodier

Asiatimes 04 Jul 2022

Last week, in an interview, Kiev’s top envoy in Berlin Andriy Melnyk compared World War II-era Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera to Robin Hood and stated that he “was not a mass murderer of Jews and Poles .” ... Melnyk had previously courted controversy by visiting Bandera’s grave, but he is not alone in his admiration ... Info war to shooting war.

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The renaissance of Eric Ravilious

Economist 04 Jul 2022

Eighty years ago Eric Ravilious disappeared while on duty as an official war artist; he was part of a crew looking for a missing Lockheed Hudson aircraft ... \nRavilious was one of the first names on the list when the war artists’ scheme was conceived at the beginning of the second world war by Kenneth Clark, then the director of the National Gallery.