The (Not So) Brave New World

In a world driven to make more profits, regardless of the moral or human cost, is it feasible that people would create and maintain wars just to make money? Isn't there a safety switch to ensure that the line is never crossed? The safety switch, which would normally be a government acting on the will of the people, seems to have been bought out by the very corporations that stand to make massive amounts of money if the wars continue. War is good business for some and any conscientious voice from the population that dares to stand against one or all of the multitude of wars in progress at this moment, is ignored or silenced. The media that we rely on to keep us informed either disregards the truth or spins it to suit their corporate sponsors. Defense companies are all doing well it seems. At a human cost too horrific to contemplate, the marćh to bigger profits continues unabated. Despite the fact that there is a growing inequity in most of the western countries, the lure of b...

IRAQ – BRILLIANT STRATEGY AND PERFECT IMPLEMENTATION INTRODUCTION Iraq is back in the media spotlight as the Islamic State for Iraq and Syria (ISIS), born from the ashes of the 2003 US invasion, moves towards Baghdad. What is common in most media articles on the subject is a tacit agreement that the 2003 Iraq invasion was a disaster, either in the strategy or the implementation or both. But what if the strategy was well thought out and its implementation perfect? Why are we so quick to believe that the US government and its allies from Europe, Australia, UK, et al, went from one bad decision to the next in a series of seemingly reactionary and shortsighted moves that has resulted in a bloody chaos that will continue to bleed innocents' blood for generations? Why won't we consider that this is part of a grand plan, the execution of which has so far been successful? REASONS FOR THE 2003 INVASION? The 2003 Iraq invasion and the current escalating situation is comp...