Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran

WASHINGTON—Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn’t yet capable of destroying Iran’s most heavily fortified underground facilities, and are stepping up efforts to make it more powerful, according to U.S. officials…

The War on Iran is Already Underway

If the conflict with Iran takes the shape of a protracted bombing campaign and comes as a prologue to the occupation of the country, the US will need to strengthen its positions in adjacent regions, meaning that Washington will be trying to draw the Caucasian republics (Georgia, Azerbaijan) and those of Central Asia into the orbit of its policy and thus tightening the “Anaconda loop” around Russia. The opposition mounted to the plans underlying the military scenario by China, Russia, and India seems to hold the promise of an alliance of countries seeking to tame US hegemony and raging unilateralism. The morally charged concepts of humanitarian interventions and war on terror had just as well been invoked to legitimize downright aggressions against Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Matthew H. Kroenig from the Council on Foreign Relations recently went so far as to warn that Iran would some day pass its nuclear technologies to Venezuela. The motivation must be to somehow bundle all critics of the US foreign policy.

The Shame and Pride of Joining Food Stamp Nation

For me, signing up for the most stigmatized benefit felt like a defeat and a victory “Mister Cook! Chris Cook? Mr. Cook! Window three!” I walk through the pasty government-issue fluorescent light and bureaucratic cinderblock…

Gangster Government Illustrated

A listener and artist sent us this image, which aptly depicts the nature of gangster government– who’ve otherwise been outed as a pack of criminals and serial liars. As for what we think of the…