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Jay Murdock

Apr 13, 2017
6 min

The Reality Show Presidency Goes to War

Why Trump Was Able to Sucker the World on Syria By NEAL GABLER | APRIL 12, 2017 It is pretty amazing how quickly the media and suck-up politicians can transform a mendacious, hypocritical, amateurish, ignorant, incoherent, bigoted buffoon who is way, way out of his depth into a man of courage, which is what they did to President Trump this past weekend. All it takes is some saber rattling and launching a few dozen missiles. Granted, the Trump brand is already so tarnished tha

Why the GOP Is Suddenly the Party of Peace

Jay Murdock

Sep 8, 2013
4 min

Why the GOP Is Suddenly the Party of Peace

Earl Ofari Hutchinson; Author and political analyst Posted: 09/08/2013 12:44 pm The stunning number of GOP law makers that are vehemently opposed to US war making against Syria has been nothing less than astounding. Lame duck Minnesota GOP congressperson Michelle Bachman’s flat-out assertion that Syrian intervention would be a bad call and the US is war-weary seemed to punctuate much of the GOP’s new thinking about war. The eye-catching part of their sudden remake as the part

Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling Them Bombs

Jay Murdock

Mar 23, 2011
4 min

Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling Them Bombs

By Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis When all you have is bombs, everything starts to look like a target. And so after years of providing Libya’s dictator with the weapons he’s been using against the people, all the international community — France, Britain and the United States — has to offer the people of Libya is more bombs, this time dropped from the sky rather than delivered in a box to Muammar Gaddafi’s palace. If the bitter lesson of Iraq and Afghanistan has taught us a

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The Reality Show Presidency Goes to War

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Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling Them Bombs

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