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Jeb’s Bush’s Confused Mindset Over Iraq

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Poor Jeb Bush. He just can’t get his mind straight on Iraq. Perhaps that’s because he’s reluctant to criticize his brother George W. Perhaps it’s because he wants desperately to be president and is willing to take any position on Iraq that will garner him votes. Whatever the reason is, when it comes to Iraq Bush just keeps digging himself a deeper hole, as reflected most recently by an attack regarding Iraq that he leveled yesterday against Hillary Clinton, accusing Clinton and President Obama of a “premature withdrawal” from Iraq, which, Bush says, enabled the rise of ISIS. Recall how Bush’s troubles on Iraq started. Several months ago, the press asked him whether he would have supported the Iraq War if he knew what he knows now. Bush responded, “I would have, and so would Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody. And so would almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got.” Soon after that, in response to attacks from ...

The Death of the CIA’s Man in Chile

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Last Friday, former Chilean spy chief Manuel Contreras passed away while serving 526 years of prison terms for crimes that he orchestrated against innocent people during the brutal Chilean military dictatorship of Army Gen. Augusto Pinochet. According to an obituary in the New York Times, After the announcement of his death, dozens of people gathered outside the hospital to celebrate, chanting and opening bottles of Champagne. Dozens of others did the same in Plaza Italia, near downtown Santiago. Some waved Chilean flags and held up pictures of people who had disappeared after General Pinochet’s coup in 1973 that overthrew President Salvador Allende. One woman held up a sign saying, “Happy trip to hell, assassin.” Undoubtedly, the reaction at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, was precisely the opposite, with CIA officials no doubt quietly and sadly mourning the passing of the man who ordered or presided over the kidnapping, torture, rapes, disappearances, and executions of tens of thousands of innocent people ...

Why We Don’t Compromise, Part 4

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 The crown jewel of the U.S. welfare state is Social Security. This federal program was adopted during the 1930s as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, which consisted of an array of government programs that revolutionized America’s economic system. While he assured the American people that his programs were nothing more than a way to “save America’s free-enterprise system” during the Great Depression, in reality they were a combination of socialist programs, which were based on taking money from one person and giving it to another person, and fascist programs, which entailed leaving money in private hands but subjecting it to government control or manipulation. The real nature of Roosevelt’s New Deal has been detailed in a book entitled Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933–1939, by Wolfgang Schivelbusch. Schivelbusch shows the remarkable ...

Was Donald Trump Right About John McCain?

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Leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump set off a firestorm within the conservative community by suggesting that former Republican presidential candidate U.S. Senator John McCain shouldn’t be considered a war hero just for being captured during the Vietnam War. Apparently Trump has survived the firestorm because he’s still topping the Republican polls. In creating the controversy, however, Trump missed the ...

The National-Security’s State’s Crisis Racket

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Imagine that Russia announced that it was reconstituting the Warsaw Pact and that Cuba, Venezuela, Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Grenada, and Bolivia had signed on as members. Imagine also that Russia fomented a regime-change operation in Mexico that succeeded in ousting the democratically elected president of the country and installing a pro-Russia ruler in his stead. Imagine that Russia then embarked on ...

The JFK Assassination and the Inconceivable Doctrine

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Despite the large amount of circumstantial evidence pointing to the culpability of the U.S. national-security state in the assassination of President Kennedy, there are still some people who exclaim “Conspiracy theory!” whenever someone challenges the official finding of the Warren Commission that JFK was felled by a former Marine lone-nut communist using a junk Italian-made World War II rifle ...