Israel has asked the US for $10 billion in emergency military aid

 bigbargain wrote:
I'm saying for some people (especially Russian apologists) no justification is too absurd if it matches their world view.

 Lazy8 wrote:

Are you saying it was the CIA or the Doonesbury was a joke?  It hope the later, or we need more than "someone should prove my point for me".   I certainly hope it was a joke - which it case it is kinda sadly funny.  (sorry, i missed it at the time, so not sure of the context)

Diplomatic Solution Sounds Fucking Lame

 R_P wrote: 
I just saw that janet yellen our treasurer, say that we can easily afford a two front war.  Because the economy is in great shape, says the same person that said inflation is just transitory and will resolve itself shortly ...

I am sure that she would say that 4 fronts is also easy.

Meanwhile the interest payment on our debt is now bigger than our defense budget.

From the Washington Post

"Homicides and violent crime overall decreased in the United States in 2022, according to FBI data released Monday, a welcome decline after the previous two years saw a surge in killings across the country driven by gun violence."

The Real Danger in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Independent Run

Not The Onion

US must be ready for simultaneous wars with China, Russia, report says

A trillion a year won't cut it.

Calling the Musk Free Speech Absolutist Lawyer Brigade...

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 miamizsun wrote:
You mean like Israel, Egypt, the Saudis, etc., etc.?

hubba hubba, gold bars

 R_P wrote:




esp murderous regimes and dictators?

 miamizsun wrote:
Both should make it easier to digest for some, but it's ultimately irrelevant...

That set of tools is now a bit less mysterious, thanks to two political scientists, Henry Farrell of Johns Hopkins and Abraham Newman of Georgetown. Their book published last month, “Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the Global Economy,” reveals how the United States benefits from a set of institutions built up late last century as neutral means of streamlining global markets.

These institutions include the dollar and the bank-messaging system known as Swift (the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication), which is based in Belgium and run by an international board but vulnerable to American pressure. It helps that the rise of the internet has made the United States home to much of the wired world’s circuitry and infrastructure, including, in our time, some of the major cloud computing centers of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google.

The United States now has the ability to survey and influence the world’s communications and supply chains, should it choose to. After the Sept. 11 attacks, it chose to. It bent the institutions to which it had access into a defensive (as it then saw things) weapon in the war on terror. “To protect America,” Mr. Farrell and Mr. Newman write, “Washington has slowly but surely turned thriving economic networks into tools of domination.”

 R_P wrote:

esp murderous regimes and dictators?
caldwell, is nested on the far right, however he seems to be a gifted writer
his long time admiration of putin is a headscratcher
or maybe not

The U.S. Has a New Set of Tools for Bullying the World
How the global economy became weaponized.

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