Have a Blessed Military Industrial Empire! | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 24, 2017 You go to the butcher shop and the sweet young cashier gives you change and says "Have a blessed day." You call one of your sm ...

Nuclear Calendar -- October 23, 2017 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation October 23, 2017 Oct. 23 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m., "Opportunities for U.S.-Korea Cooperation in Advanced Nuclear: Industrial, R&D, and Other ...

The Real Reason behind Trump’s Angry Diplomacy in North Korea | Ramzy Baroud

Jimmy Carter on bicycle. Plains, Georgia, USA, on President's Day 2008. Photo credit: Bubba73 at English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL via Wikimedia CommonsRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 16, ...

Dead Nation Walking | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 15, 2017 They have a term for those on death row awaiting execution: "Dead Men Walking." Ditto for a large (too-large) segment of our A ...

Mass Shootings: The Military-Entertainment Complex’s Culture of Violence Turns Deadly | John W. Whitehead

The Rutherford Institute Oct. 3, 2017 “Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that relies on violence to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Given the ...

What Is Behind the Hamas-Fatah Reconciliation? | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 12, 20017 Egypt's enthusiasm to arbitrate between feuding Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, is not the outcome of a sudden awakening of cons ...

Hijacking MY Flag! | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 11, 2017 As a baby boomer who has seen lots of instances of the empire using MY flag as their own private property, this newest one "ta ...

Children (and Grandchildren) of the Silver Legion | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 10, 2017 According to Wikipedia, the Silver Legion of America, commonly known as the Silver Shirts, was an underground American fascist ...

The Balfour Declaration Destroyed Palestine, Not the Palestinian People | Ramzy Baroud

Arthur James Balfour. (Public domain)Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 10, 2017 Some promises are made and kept; others disavowed. But the "promise" made by Arthur James Balfour, in what became k ...

Light It Up | James Howard Kunstler

Photo: foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/24/nato-prepares-to-be-disappointed-by-the-cheshire-cat-president/ James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 6, 2017 War, children, It’s just a shot away It’s ju ...

We Should All be 'One-Trick Ponies' | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 5, 2017 Those who read my columns know that I have been concentrating on one vital issue for years: The terribly obscene military spend ...