Category: War and Peace

By Rod Brana. Twenty years ago on this date, the American people were subjected to a macabre form of “reality TV” show, set in Baghdad, in the form of the “premier episode” of Shock and Awe, a joint production of the Military Industrial Complex and CNN. The devastation of Iraq by an illegal US/NATO war had started, and the “entertainment value” was not going to be wasted by the mainstream media. We were invited to take a seat, pop the...

One of the biggest factors leading to war is how economically ignorant the public and intellectual leaders are regarding how awful war really is. War is the absolute worse thing homo sapiens can do. It is pure destruction of life and property and a clear sign that the public and their “leaders” are essentially executing pure tribalism and economic ignorance. Consider the following. In August 10, 1915, British physicist Henry Mosely, who would have probably won the Nobel Prize that...