Mideast stability is bad for business

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.

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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.