The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Patriotic Purge: The Real Cost of War Fighting for corruption and profits   Donald Jeffries The great Gen. Smedley Butler wrote his classic  War is a Racket  in response to the pointless carnage of WWI. Some 15-22 million largely adolescent boys died for absolutely nothing. That fact that they can’t provide a more accurate estimate than that tells you clearly about the incomprehensible numbers involved. In 1846, President Polk decided to wage war on Mexico. Was the land grab that followed, including what became California, worth the lives of the nearly 14,000 Americans who were killed? Or the 25,000 Mexicans, including an unknown number of civilians? Mexico in fact lost 55% of its territory to the U.S. from 1836-1848. No wonder the La Raza folks hate gringos. In April 1847, the Massachusetts legislature passed a resolution denouncing the war as “a gigantic crime” waged against a “weak neighbor” for the purposes of conquest, territorial aggrandizement, and the ...

  Episode 495 – This is the REAL Endgame in Iran by James  Corbett   Are you wondering how this whole Iran war debacle is going to end? Sick of the lies and propaganda slop that is being fed to the masses on this issue? Then you won’t want to miss this important edition of The Corbett Report podcast where James peers through the wartime propaganda and reads the geopolitical tea leaves to discern what this war is really about and where it’s really going. Video player not working? Use these links to watch it somewhere else! WATCH ON:   /    /   /    /  /   or  DOWNLOAD THE MP4 TRANSCRIPT CORBETT:  So, are you wondering how this whole Iran war debacle is going to end? What is the end game for this war? And what is the exit ramp? Well, don’t ask me. What do I know? Ask the person who’s making all the decisions: the commander-in-chief of the United States military! WEIJIA JIANG:  What percentage of the ...