by Greg Maybury | Jan 16, 2017 | Deep State, Economic History, Geopolitics, National Security, Uncategorized, US Foreign Policy, US Intelligence, US Military, US National Security, Wall Street
Brief: The so-called ‘military-industrial complex’ ushered in by the passing of the 1947 National Security Act is a luxury America and the world can no longer afford. The unprecedented threat posed by the over-privileged belligerents infecting U.S. military doctrine...
by Greg Maybury | Aug 3, 2016 | Geopolitics, US Foreign Policy, US National Security
When it comes to the arms business…there’s no end to the good news from the Middle East. Take the [Obama] administration’s proposed new 10-year aid deal with Israel. If enacted as currently planned, it would boost U.S. military assistance to that...
by Greg Maybury | Jan 1, 2016 | Economic History, Geopolitics, National Security, The Presidency, US History, US Political Economy, US Politics
‘Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.’ ‘Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.’ ‘Washington is broken....
by Greg Maybury | Nov 6, 2015 | Deep State, National Security, US History, US Politics
‘Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim...
by Greg Maybury | Aug 1, 2015 | Geopolitics, US History, US Politics
The great of this world are often blamed for not doing what they could have done; they can reply, just think of all the evil we could have done, but did not do. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist, writer, aphorist (1742-1799) —*— Temperamentally...
