In 2011, when Iranian-backed insurgents in Iraq, using Iranian-supplied rockets, were killing American troops, Marine General James Mattis, head of U.S. Central Command, grew increasingly incensed. As a result, he formulated a plan, which made it to (and was rejected by) the Obama White House, to launch a direct American “dead-of-night” attack on Iran either to …
Not only has the United States failed to win a war in recent years, not only is it inefficient and over- staffed – it hides up the facts. Recently the Pentagon buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste. The study found that almost a quarter of the defense budget is spent on …
In the November edition of (the British) Prospect magazine a Dutch author, Joris Luyendijk, wrote an article on the inflated sense of self-worth that pervades a small section of the political Right in Britain. He writes that many English people have a superiority complex that prevents them being realistic about their country’s place in the …
“Some of these (illegal immigrants) are fantastic people. I’ve been to the border. I was there a few days ago. I met some people. These are fantastic people, and they have great reputations within their communities………The bad ones, they’re gone. They never come back. They’ll never get back into this country. But the good ones, …
In 2015 an all-time record of 52,404 people died from drug overdoses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, eclipsing even gun deaths. 80% of these deaths were the result of misuse of opioids: heroin, Fentanyl, Oxycontin and Vicodin. Prescription opioids accounted for 17,536 of these deaths, a majority. Doctors are advised …
