The Post-Partisan Emporium

  If The Wars Go On Edward J. Curtin, Jr. I suppose my title could have been couched in the singular form, as Hermann Hesse, the Nobel Prize winning German/Swiss author, did with his collection of anti-war essays about World War I (the war to end all wars that didn’t),  If The War Goes On . . .   Or more appropriately, I might have eliminated that conditional “If” since it seems Pollyannish. It’s a long hard road, this anti-war business.  During the first Cold War and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the early sixties when Kennedy and Krushchev narrowly avoided blowing the world to smithereens, Bob Dylan put it right in his fierce song,  Masters of War : (Verse 1) Come, you masters of war You that build the big guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks (Verse 3) Like Judas of old You lie and deceive A world war can be won You want me to believe But I see th

  To Avoid Nuclear War, Putin Needs to be a Little Crazier MIKE WHITNEY  • MAY 31, 2024  • 1,900 WORDS   •  73 COMMENTS   •  REPLY Tweet Reddit Share Share Email Print More Share to Gab President Putin’s press conference on Wednesday in Uzbekistan might have been the most unusual and extraordinary event in his 24-year political career. After addressing the Constitutional issues surrounding Ukrainian President Zelensky’s decision to remain in office beyond his four-year term, Putin delivered a brief but disturbing statement on NATO’s plan to fire long-range weapons at targets inside Russia. Putin made it clear that Russia would respond to these attacks and that the countries that provided the weapons systems would be held responsible. He also gave a very detailed description of how the systems work and how they require contractors from the country-of-origin be directly involved in their operation. What is so remarkable about Putin’s comments is not the fact that they bring the world clo

  What Has Israel Done for Americans in the Past Week? PHILIP GIRALDI They’ve taken our money & weapons and made us complicit as war criminals The Jewish Virtual Library  asserts that “The  US-Israel relationship  is based on the twin pillars of shared values and shared interests. Given this commonality of interests and beliefs, it should not be surprising that support for Israel is one of the most pronounced and consistent foreign policy values of the American people.” That is, of course, the big lie among the many that constitute the tie that binds the two countries together. The back-up lies, regularly spouted in Congress, are that Israel is a democracy and an ally. It is, of course neither, as it is a Jews-only apartheid regime that has no fixed borders and no reciprocal security arrangements with the US. Israel and its promoters never tell the truth, particularly when they are conning the United States government into providing more money and more weapons, as has been occurrin