Tim Kirby
The legacy of the Iraqi occupation should be that land empires are the better option, especially in the 21st century, as games of colonization no longer work.
Around 5,000 American and NATO troops dead, countless thousands more injured, the bodies of at least 180,000 Iraqis with them in the sand, and this number could be over a million by some accounts, and anywhere up to 3 trillion dollars have gone into the abyss of national debt; this was the cost of the occupation of Iraq.
There is a v ery good article by Evgeny Morozov in today's FT, emphasizing how the U.S. progressive movemenet endorsing Trump's U.S. attempt to maintain its postindustrial prosperity by establishing monopoly choke points is reminiscent of how Britain's Labour Party sught to benefit its membership from the predatory takings of British imperialism in the late 19th century.
Here's the column, to which I've added some comments by Lenin in his own 1916 critique of this - to which Morozov helpfully refers.
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Donald Trump, le président américain
En campagne pour le Congrès, Donald Trump a qualifié la destruction potentielle de villes comme Los Angeles ou San Diego de "tout petit prix à payer" dans une guerre contre l'Iran. Balayant également la hausse des prix du carburant comme étant "artificielle", il a de nouveau promis une fin rapide du conflit.
Ce qui n'arrive jamais n'arrête pas d'arriver. − Kyle Becker sur X
Par James Howard Kunstler - Le 14 septembre 2026 - Source Clusterfuck Nation
"Tout le monde est attardé et rien ne fonctionne." Il s'avère que c'est là la clé pour percer le mystère de ce quatrième tournant particulier, celui d'ici et maintenant, de notre époque. C'est une excellente théorie qui explique tout ce qui se passe ces jours-ci, formulée par un de mes proches collaborateurs.
By Ron Paul, MD
The Ron Paul Institute
October 6, 2026
As the midterm election draws near, a number of Republicans in tough races are distancing themselves from President Trump's war. The war is unpopular because it has inflicted economic pain on the already-suffering American people.
No, I am not talking about the Iran War. I am talking about President Trump's tariff war.
The Tax Foundation estimates that, since he returned to the White House, President Trump has imposed tariffs on about 54 percent of imported goods.
By Laurence M. Vance
October 6, 2026
I noticed just recently that a new billboard has gone up a few miles from my house. It features a Marine in uniform along with the caption: What Do Marines Fight For?
Never have I been gifted with such a tremendous article prompt.
So, what do Marines fight for?
Well, first of all, here are some things that Marines don't fight for:
Freedom
God and country
Par Brandon Smith − Le 23 septembre 2026 − Source Alt-Market
Depuis six mois, les yeux du monde entier sont rivés sur la guerre en Iran, tandis que le point chaud le plus dangereux de la planète est resté largement ignoré. Jusqu'à ce que des vagues d'attaques de drones ukrainiens déclenchent une ruée sur les marchés mondiaux du gazole. Du coup, tout le monde y prête à nouveau attention...
By John J. MEARSHEIMER
The Trump administration and its supporters - including the Wall Street Journal editorial page - are working overtime these days to spin the news around the Iran war to make it appear that the US is winning and Tehran had better submit to Washington's demands before it is wrecked, maybe even "annihilated." Indeed, Trump is preparing the option of bringing the military hammer down on Iran after the midterm elections if Tehran has not surrendered by then.
By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
October 5, 2026
Imagine running a private company where most of your office buildings failed to meet even a 60% utilization target, yet you continued paying the rent, utilities, maintenance, security, repairs, and operating costs year after year. How long would that company survive ? Welcome to the federal government.
The Government Accountability Office examined the Department of Transportation's real estate portfolio and found that 89% of its 189 federally owned and leased office buildings failed to meet the government's own 60% utilization benchmark.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
October 5, 2026
I have come to the conclusion that journalism in the West has been replaced by hired narratives and that reporters report the narrative that they are hired to tell. It is a new form of vanity press in which interest groups hire a propaganda service to market their agenda.
I will present a current example. On September 28 US Central Command denied that Iran had control of the Strait of Hormuz.
By Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
October 5, 2026
Pity Latin American voters. On election day, they are faced with two choices - right-wing candidates or left-wing candidates. The right-wing candidates come with "free-market" policies combined with a powerful standing army with omnipotent powers, one that ensures the destruction of civil liberties. The left-wing candidates come with massive welfare-state socialist policies that plunge the country into severe economic and monetary crises.
By Charles Burris
October 3, 2026
Before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre leveled thirty-five blocks in eighteen hours, the Greenwood District was the wealthiest Black community in America. Its main street held hotels, theaters, law firms, newspapers, and a hospital - all Black-owned, all built from scratch in the shadow of Oklahoma's oil boom.
This is the story of how Greenwood rose from a forty-acre land purchase into a self-sustaining commercial district that rivaled any in the country, and how one night of coordinated violence, followed by decades of insurance denial, rezoning schemes, and interstate highway construction, ensured it would never fully return.
"And now she is on a respirator in a hospital as doctors fight to save her life, presumably so that the state of Tennessee can try to kill her again."
They botched another execution in Tennessee.
They stuck the prisoner full of seven different syringes, but she didn't die. She just experienced extreme suffering, minute after excruciating minute, before eventually losing consciousness.
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Une chambre d'exécution destinée aux injections létales à Huntsville, au Texas. [Photo d'illustration]
Quelques jours après l'échec de l'exécution de Christa Pike, désormais sous respirateur artificiel, la démission du chef de l'administration pénitentiaire du Tennessee a été annoncée. De son côté, le Haut-Commissariat de l'ONU aux droits de l'homme a appelé les autorités du Tennessee à renoncer à toute nouvelle tentative.
Par Finian Cunningham, le 30 septembre 2026
Le projet de Trump visant à militariser l'Arctique, sous la pression des Européens, est un autre signe inquiétant parmi tant d'autres.
James Jatras, analyste chevronné de la politique étrangère américaine, explique en quoi le récent accord de sécurité conclu entre Trump et le Danemark au sujet du Groenland sert en réalité à apaiser les tensions au sein de l'OTAN.
Il est étonnant que quoi que ce soit existe. − Ludwig Wittgenstein
Par James Howard Kunstler - Le 11 septembre 2026 - Source Clusterfuck Nation
Joseph diGenova
Est-ce une semaine qui nous vide l'âme, ou quoi ? Hier, le souvenir de Charlie Kirk, un jeune homme intègre connu pour avoir agi noblement à une époque ignoble, fauché (selon les allégations devant le tribunal) par un pathétique produit du culte "woke" - l'ange vengeur trans, avatar de notre maladie mentale nationale.
By Kurt NIMMO
President Donald Trump has gone and really done it this time. "We had them under view for a long time, and we got them," he said about the five British men arrested at RAF Fairford, initially said to be terrorists targeting US aircraft at the British base.
It turns out the would-be terrorists did not have explosives. Instead, they had stolen red diesel for farm equipment.
Un nombre croissant de parlementaires américains s'en prennent vivement à la guerre illégale menée par le président Donald Trump contre l'Iran, accusant son administration de dissimuler les pertes militaires, d'intensifier le conflit et d'avoir plongé l'économie américaine dans une grave crise inflationniste.
Les parlementaires ont généralement reconnu les répercussions économiques et les échecs stratégiques de l'agression américano-israélienne, certains appelant de toute urgence à couper les financements de la machine de guerre et à destituer le secrétaire à la Guerre.
Le sénateur américain Bernie Sanders affirme que l'American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) se prépare à dépenser 233 millions de dollars pour faire battre les candidats au Congrès qui critiquent le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu lors des prochaines élections de mi-mandat aux États-Unis.
Dans un message sur X, le sénateur Sanders a écrit que le groupe de pression pro-israélien prévoyait de dépenser 233 millions de dollars pour faire battre les candidats qui osent s'exprimer contre le cabinet extrémiste de Netanyahu.
par Réseau Voltaire
Pete Hegseth, secrétaire à la Guerre, a délivré, le 30 septembre 2026, son discours sur l'état des forces armées devant les troupes à Quantico, en Virginie.
1 • Il a annoncé la création de l'Autonomous Warfare Command (AutoWarCom) chargé de la construction et de la fourniture de capacités autonomes et robotiques pour l'ensemble des armées états-uniennes.