ANDREW KORYBKO—Commentators all across the Mainstream and Alternative Media have fallen for the hysteria about a seemingly imminent US-led conventional war on Iran, but rather than that dramatic event that many seem to be anticipating for their own reasons, it’s much more likely that the world will witness America’s slow-motion strangling of the Islamic Republic.
PHILIP A. FARRUGGIO—Mother in War was already swinging her kids, movies in hand, out the door, shouting back that I was crazy to ever trust this madman. I tried to answer her about which country had the greater madman, but she was already climbing into her Land Cruiser with (I kid you not) license plates that read Support Education.
ERIC ARNOW—The US, having genocided the Native Americans and stolen half of Mexico asserted that Mexico had attacked US troops along the US Mexico Border when in fact it was a fake provocation. Even Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain and Henry David Thoreau called that casus belli bullshit back in the day.So in 1898, the Empire was on the prowl again. It coveted Cuba and the Philippines, which were owned by the Spanish Empire. The Empire needed another war. So William Randolph Hearst sent a photographer to Havana…..”You supply the photographs and I’ll supply to war”. He said that in response the photographer who reported there was no there there. Nothing to report.
BERTRAND RUSSELL—Malcom Browne, correspondent for the Associate Press, reported: “Interrogation involves connection of electrodes from (this) generator to the temples of the subject, or other part of the body. In the case of women prisoners the electrodes often are attached to the nipples…. Many of the soldiers enjoy beating up Vietcong prisoners.The subjects of interrogation so often die under questioning that intelligence seems to be a secondary matter.”