Tag: Persian Gulf War

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Chris Jennings
End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2026

While the 24-hour news channels focused on Hurricane Andrew battering southern Florida in August of 1992, federal agents participated in a siege — or standoff, depending on your point of view — of the Weaver family’s residence. This happened because the family’s patriarch, Randy Weaver, had deliberately failed to show up for a court hearing related to a minor weapons violation. (more…)

If you’ve had anything to eat in the last few years, surely you’ve experienced sticker shock. I knew there was something up when I couldn’t do a modest grocery run without my pocketbook being lightened by over two hundred bucks. As for restaurant food, even proletarian chow like burgers and fried chicken is starting to become rare indulgences for anyone without a comfortably bougie income. What’s up with that? (more…)

Candace shoves Roman courtier aside by the booty to tell Caesar Augustus he’d better give up, OR ELSE!

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Did the Romans chicken out, start a war of conquest and lose, or surrender to Cush?

Often with twisted narratives, or the usual sort of pilpul, it takes considerable explanation to demonstrate that the argument is hollow and disingenuous. (more…)

Gritz on the campaign trail in 1992.

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In 1991, as the Cold War was ending, President George H. W. Bush proclaimed a New World Order, but failed to define what the term actually meant. It came to be seen as a negative by men such as Bo Gritz — i.e., those who were valorous, accomplished, white, and politically to the Right. (more…)

Ross Perot (photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons)

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The Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union suffered a catastrophic meltdown in April 1986. The disaster was too big to ignore, and it shattered the prestige upon which the Evil Empire was built. Thereafter the entirety of the Communist bloc in Europe started to collapse. (more…)

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The Rise of Saddam Hussein

In 1968, the Ba’athists returned to power in Iraq after a relatively bloodless coup. President Arif was deposed and exiled along with his family to London. The fact that the coup was bloodless shows that Ba’athism had won Iraqi hearts and minds and was widely seen as legitimate. Saddam Hussein was still in the background at this time, and like Stalin, he focused on creating a security and intelligence service that was loyal to him. (more…)

Saddam Hussein was captured on December 13, 2003. Things have not gone well for Americans in the two decades since.

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It’s been 20 years since the United States military captured Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi dictator was captured by the American 4th Infantry Division along with commandos from a special forces unit, Task Force 121, at the end of a nationwide manhunt that lasted for eight months after his regime had been toppled. (more…)

FBI Special Agent George G. Liddy in 1935.

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The Environment

Since I’m a tree hugger, this was a rather difficult chapter for me. Still, I’ll give it a fair hearing. Liddy begins by demonstrating that there is still plenty of fossil fuel, and that there will be for a long time. I’ll grant him that point, though it’s somewhat more complicated than that. As easier-to-reach reserves are depleted, there’ll be diminishing returns which will eventually make the price of fossil fuels exorbitant, or even prohibitive. (more…)

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This is the savagery of, that we only remember from the Nazi crimes in the Holocaust. — Benjamin Netanyahu

Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death. — Don DeLillo, White Noise (more…)

Nayirah Al-Ṣabaḥ was a Kuwaiti girl who testified about Iraqi atrocities against babies to the US Congress in the run-up to the Persian Gulf War. Although her testimony later turned out to be false, it helped to draw the US into yet another military adventure on Israel’s behalf.

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The reignition of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict shows how information is one of the most critical aspects of modern warfare. For example, several prominent pro-Israeli political influencers almost immediately began circulating accusations of lurid atrocities in the court of public opinion. The most shocking allegation was that 40 Israeli toddlers had been decapitated. (more…)

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Norman Solomon
War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
New York: The New Press, 2023

See also: The American Regime, here & here

Norman Solomon is one of those rare, honest, old-time liberals who genuinely questions the narratives of the mainstream media and the foreign policy establishment. He was a delegate for Bernie Sanders in 2016. (more…)

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The Ukrainian counteroffensive is underway. Don’t get your hopes up. When the American-led coalition went on the offensive against the Iraqi military during the Persian Gulf War of 1990-91, they had complete air superiority. (more…)

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Studying military history is entertaining and practical. You might not be interested in war, but war is certainly interested in you. On September 10, 2001, I was expecting to spend as much free time as I could hunting that autumn, but by mid-morning the next day I was focused on training for a real war.

War is often the summit of achievement, be that an achievement of a national leader, a nation, or an individual. (more…)