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Comments Off on The West’s Legacy in Afghanistan, Filed in Blog, Jeff Patton, by CGP.
The West’s Legacy in Afghanistan: a Corrupt Narco State As 2014 and the Afghanistan War ends, the longest overseas military intervention in U.S. history, winds down, we should reflect on what has been accomplished at what cost. Over $1 TRILLION has been spent fighting this war, including more than $100 BILLION spent on so-called Afghani “re-construction” projects— an amount, when adjusted for inflation, that is greater than all the money spent on the Marshall Plan that successfully re-built Western Europe’s economy following WWII—according to Joe Sopko, the U.S. government’s special inspector-general for Afghanistan. The cost in blood through 2014 to the Western military coalition has been 3,485 killed in action. So, after all this expenditure in blood and treasure what are the results?
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Lid-ism: Preserving the status quo
It is now one hundred years since the beginning of World War I. It is more than a little evident that the “war to end all wars,” as they used to call it during the 1920s and early 1930s, did nothing of the sort. In fact, it would now appear that the rising levels of armed conflict and instability spreading over large parts of the Middle East, North Africa, and a whole tier of sub-Saharan African states like Nigeria, Mali, and the Central African Republic, has resulted in a higher level of violent conflict than at any other time during the last 25 years. Read more…
Comments Off on Will Capitalism Survive: Mark Carney’s Warning, Filed in Blog, by CGP.
Mark Carney, present governor of the Bank of England and chairman of the International Financial Stability Board (as well as a well-respected past governor of the Bank of Canada), strongly warned a conference on “Inclusive Capitalism” at the City of London—which was attended by the elite money managers in charge of one-third of the world’s investable money (about $30 trillion—yes that’s trillion not billion!) that they cannot take the continuation of the capitalist system for granted because the basic social contract has been breaking down!
Comments Off on Obama versus Putin: Whose Getting the Worst of It?, Filed in Blog, by CGP.
Obama versus Putin
American President Barak Obama just can’t seem to deliver a TKO on the Russian President Vladimir Putin can he? In fact, for the last year it has seemed that Putin can go the distance in the ring with whatever Obama throws at him. The unipolar world in which the United States of America is the sole superpower that can get its way in whatever it wants… is disappearing before our very eyes. Nobody could really stand-up to the power of the U.S.A.’s displeasure in order to shelter NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden with all his revelations of American surveillance of everyone’s 27/7 digital communications…but Putin was willing to take Snowden in…
Comments Off on Does God Hear: Answered Prayer, Filed in Blog, by CGP.
Answered Prayer?
Does God still answer prayers in the 21st Century? Well, there’s one family in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada that thinks so. But obviously, a lot of people these days don’t think so.
In fact the majority of people in the Western world these days suspect that if God isn’t dead, like so many lefty intellectuals stridently proclaim, then He must not be too interested in the average person’s day-to-day problems.
Comments Off on American Impotence: Where is the Will?, Filed in Blog, by CGP.
American Impotence:
There were important international meetings in the Western world that resulted in some speeches by various leaders of the West, a number of press conferences, and even a non-binding U.N. resolution denouncing Russia’s annexation of Crimea. We heard a lot of talk about “isolating” Russia, including throwing them out of that exclusive club formerly known as the G-8, as well as a series of announcements applying travel restrictions and financial sanctions on maybe 30 to 40 insider Russians and pro-Russian Ukrainians.
But the incontestable bottomline is that Crimea is now a part of Russia and the West has proven itself to be impotent to do anything more than talk and issue vague threats about what will happen if Putin continues to be a bad boy.
Comments Off on Break the Pride of Your Power: The Sunset of the American Empire, Filed in Blog, by CGP.
Break the Pride of your Power: When it comes to the quick and successful Russian occupation of the Crimean peninsula, U.S. President Barak Obama insists that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “on the wrong side of history.”
