Watch EMN Fellow Matthew Hoh on his return to Podcast By George to discuss the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, January 6th and Manufacturing Consent – for war.
The US supports nearly 75% of the world’s dictators, autocracies, monarchies, military regimes, etc., with weapons, military training and money.
Listen to EMN Fellow Christian Sorensen on WBAI News discuss how this NDAA is a record budget and why you should take the amendment to repeal the 2002 AMUF with more than a grain of salt.
“The problems I identified on a microscale in Afghanistan still exist on a macroscale in American foreign policy,” Edstrom said. “That is detrimental to not only soldiers, but to Americans, and the world.”
America worships its Pentagod and the weapons and wars that feed it.
Only one group has meaningfully benefited from 20-plus years of U.S. hyper-militarism—the war-profiteers. Here we’re talking truly mind-boggling numbers. Recent reports show that an investment of $10,000 in defense stocks when the war on terror began would now be worth almost $100,000.
Rather than celebrating Veteran’s Day, I wish we could celebrate Armistice Day or, you know, the end of all war as we know it. That would be wonderful. I would much rather like to live in a world without conflict.
The unfortunate truth is that we don’t.
Former Army Captain Erik Edstrom shared his experiences in the military, including how he helped get his interpreter out of Afghanistan.
I come to this Veterans Day with dread. I often am asked what the United States will learn from its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?
We have not rid the world of war. It continues in its small scale fashion at this very moment in conflicts all around the world.