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The Ascent 0

Donald Trump, watched by a crowd from below, rides up a gold-plated escalator beneath a sign pointing to

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Global Threat Assessment 0

The official global threat level is “not pretty.”

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The Lies of the Land 0

Will Bunch points out that it’s starting all over again once more. A snippet:

And the shocking events of the last 100 hours or so — beginning with the provocative and impulsive President Trump-ordered assassination of an Iranian general — have been like a PTSD flashback on acid of blatantly lying government officials and chest-thumping warmongering TV pundits, on top of the dull ache of realization that that for six decades now you’ve watched the United States and its leaders learn absolutely nothing.

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The Tree Looks Different from the Other Side 0

Explorers “blazed a trail” because the tree looks different from the other side.

Noz looks at the other side of the tree and discovers some true equivalences.

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War and Mongers of War 0

Shorter PoliticalProf: Beware of false prophets (and their false prophecies).

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The Quest 0

Nancy Letourneau attempts to make sense of for Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran.

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The Grand Stragety 0

Tiny hand sticking up from large sleeve labeled

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Trump’s Iran “policy” seems to be one of beating plowshares into swords.

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Wars and Mongers of War, One More Time 0

Mel Gurtov examines how endless warriors cook up endless wars. Here’s one ingredient from the recipe (emphasis in the original):

Lie when you have to: Most everyone on the ground saw the disconnect between what was actually happening and what had to be said in public. Lying became commonplace. As one colonel said, “Every data point was altered to present the best picture possible.”

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War and Mongers of War, Reprise 0

Image of soldiers preparing to parachute from plane in a war zone.  One says to another,

Badtux does the cost-benefit analysis.

Image via Juanita Jean.

(Broken link fixed.)

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War and Mongers of War 0

What Noz said.

Also, they never consider the possibility that things might not go exactly as they want them to.

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Quagmire v. 2.0 0

Shorter Cid Standifer: Those who forget ignore history are condemned to repeat it.

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Well, Duh 0

The only persons who could find this surprising are those who haven’t been paying attentioin.

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A Simple Answer 0

Dan Simpson wonders why more Americans don’t question our endless, often pointless and stupid, wars.

The answer is simple.

There’s no draft.

America’s endless wars are remote things that happen somewhere else to someone else, while most Americans occupy themselves with Pokemon-Go–er, Fortnite–and “social” media.

We are a society of stupid.

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Poster Boy 0

Donald Trump on recruting poster from the

Via Job’s Anger.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

What Noz said.

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War and Mongers of War 0

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Philosophical Differences 0

John Bolton saying,

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Sand Trap 0

Befuddled Uncle Sam stuck in a jeep trapped between nail strips in the Afghan Desert flanked by signs saying,

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No Correlation Whatsoever 0

General at the U. S. Military Industrial-Complex Headquarters looks at chart listing Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Central America asks,

Via Job’s Anger.

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“Bigger Trouble” 0

John Bolton operating a Predator Drone headed to Iran.  Donald Trump says,

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