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U.S. militarism and politics. Making sense of a vexing and perplexing world.
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Emerging Technological Trends (opens the original)
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Hi Everyone: I just posted this at my other Substack site, Technology and Warfare, but it seems “bracing” enough to share here. Thanks.Here are a few quick thoughts on emerging technologies. Of course, I welcome your thoughts as well.Golden Dome: What a boondoggle! A leak-proof shield against incoming ballistic missiles is surely impossible to build and field, but who cares about technical feasibility? It’s all about the money—and there’s plenty of it to go around.Drones: I just read where the P
Deterring Our Way to Doomsday (opens the original)
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It’s amazing the enormous sums of money the U.S. government spends on destructive weaponry in the stated cause of deterring massive destruction. It’s MAD, of course, this notion that peace is only attainable via the promise of annihilating another people. And now we know that annihilation won’t be limited to Russia or China or Iran: that a “general” nuclear strike would likely produce a nuclear winter that would end most life on our planet. Yet the Pentagon persists in nuclear “modernization” an
Bipartisan Support for Permanent War (opens the original)
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This month America marked the 25th anniversary of the War on Terror with no end in sight. That long war has been embraced and amplified by the Trump administration with its celebration of “warrior ethos” marked most recently by a bloody awful conflict against Iran.<source type="imag
Total Failure of the U.S. Political System (opens the original)
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Shame, and eternal shame, nothing but shame! (The Duke of Bourbon, Henry V)Why isn’t President Trump being impeached and removed for cause?This week he went before the United Nations and once again threatened a nation of 93 million people (Iran) with total annihilation. Defying Congress, he seeks to build a trium
My Father’s Journal (opens the original)
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I got an interesting (bogus) email solicitation about “My Father’s Journal,” a book I published last year through Amazon. The company (known as Apex Literary) wants to help me market my book (for a fee, of course), but it actually had some decent ideas, and it reminded me that maybe I should be promoting my book more. So, if you’d like to support my site in a modest way, maybe you’d be interested in my book, which is available for $10 paperback, $5 on Kindle, or free on Kindle Unlimited.<div cla
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