CALEB MAUPIN—It is well known that individuals who flee from anti-imperialist and socialist countries have every incentive to exaggerate, embellish and flat out lie about what they experienced. The more over the top and grotesque their stories are describing the supposed “oppressive regime” they fled from, the more attention and acceptance they will get from their new neighbors and friends in the USA.
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AISHA—While many people understand that the Democrats are very similar to Republicans, it’s the false promises of AOC, Bernie, and Ilhan Omar that keeps them hooked. That is their job.
By highlighting a mere fraction of U.S. domestic policies, (and even then, they fall short) the “progressive” part of the Democratic Party diverts attention away from the monstrous U.S. empire, that is strangling the world.
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LAWRENCE WILKERSON—America has made war, the threat of war, and intimidation, whether economic and financial or bombs, bullets and bayonets, magnificently profitable for the “security industry”, from private military contractors to behemoths of industry such as the Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Boeing corporations. When war is so profitable, it is a certainty there will be more of it. The Ukraine conflict is a glaring and present example. So long as these conditions persist, war is inevitable.
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BIG SERGE—Russia so far has demonstrated that it can sustain its operations in Ukraine with ease; artillery activity in the east remains relentless (even with HIMARS systems hitting a few ammo dumps here and there), and the Russians have specially made a mockery of the relentless predictions that they are almost out of missiles. On Ukrainian Independence Day (August 24), the Russians launched the largest and most sustained missile attacks of the war, as if to deliberately mock those who predicted that the would be out of missiles by the start of summer.
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While there is little question that RAND—the Pentagon’s own think tank—is a malignant imperialist outfit created to devise ways of advancing and preserving US imperialism across the globe, its advisory papers are sometimes surprisingly honest, outlining the path likely to be followed by the empire’s policymakers. Such is the case, for example, with RAND’s paper on the “weakening” of Rusia, predicated on unrelenting pressure and provocations to cause her to “overextend” herself. But even these have to be taken with a grain of salt, since they may easily contain self-serving data calculated to accomplish hidden aims.
