Here’s his Friday column on elite hatred of, and therefore our cautious admiration of, Trump and Sanders.

I’m unable to see in Trump or Sanders anything more than entertainment value, despite their tepidity to indulge in the extremely hawkish rhetoric of their competitors.  Wasn’t Obama seen as “anti-war” before he gained control of the reins of power?  The Peace Prize winner proceeded to unleash a hellstorm of almost indiscriminate drone strikes across the Middle East, strikes that kill innocents “90% of the time”, according to the Intercept‘s Drone Papers series.

If Trump or Sanders ends up in the White House, how likely is it that they’ll stick to whatever quasi-antiwar statement they made once or twice throughout their campaign?

I miss Ron Paul.

Private companies alleviate Flint’s water woes, infuriating liberal writers

Libya, transformed into a blazing dumpster fire, is about to get another dose of Uncle Sam’s airstrikes

Did a weaponized flu virus escape a US lab in the Ukraine?

Despite the rhetoric of imperial warmongers, Iran might not be so evil after all

No surprise here: DEA agent hires TSA employee to steal cash from luggage, promises a cut of the profits

Gareth Porter explains the phony “peace process” the US is pretending to encourage in regard to Syria.  The US Empire wants the chaos, indeed, needs the chaos because the chaos produces the excuse for Empire, the War on Terror, trillions spent on a foreign policy of endless intervention.  The U.S. foreign policy establishment needs groups like ISIS, and attacks like Paris, to fuel the fear and hysteria that drives support for the War on Terror.  Randolph Bourne famously said that “war is the health of the State”.  Peace, and stability, are the death by starvation of the State.

Multi-billion dollar Pentagon surveillance blimps gets loose, crashes in Pennsylvania

Is the Drug War really an “answerless problem”?  ‘Sicario’ screenwriter seems to think so.  It’s sad to think that someone who could write such an amazing movie could come away with no lessons learned whatsoever.  The ugly truth is that the Drug War has a heartbreakingly simple answer: legalize the drugs that thousands are being murdered over.  Here’s a review of ‘Sicario’ from The Examiner.

40 years of the Mexican Drug War.  The results?  40 years of organized crime expansion.

Finally.

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