The US spent $60 billion rebuilding Iraq after the 2003 war. There is virtually nothing to show for the money. Most of the money seems to have been stolen by US defense contractors.

via publicintegrity.org: After U.S. and allied warplanes destroyed a key bridge carrying 15 oil and gas pipelines in northern Iraq during the 2003 conflict there, officials in Washington and Baghdad made its postwar reconstruction a top priority. But instead of …

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MATT TAIBBI: “Thirty years after Bill Clinton ditched the ‘Peace Dividend,’ we seem to be in conflict everywhere, with no end in sight. Do we need a fundamental re-think of our foreign policy priorities?”

On June 1, Harpers put out a cover story titled, “Why are we in Ukraine?” The authors were professor Christopher Layne, the Robert Gates chair of National Security at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government, and Benjamin Schwarz, a onetime …

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10YR yield high of day 4.274%… After the Fed minutes were released today, rate expectations increased…$QQQ seems terribly mispriced…Market looking super weak, every bounce getting sold

⚠️10YR yield high of day 4.274% New 20 year high pic.twitter.com/H0k7d5a0QG — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) August 16, 2023 The $tip etf is at the October lows. $qqq seems terribly mispriced, and that gap needs to close. pic.twitter.com/egSgaaxTsS — Michael J. …

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New York City libs PANIC after Mayor declares State of Emergency over migrants; Democrat Bowman criticizes Biden over the disastrous border crisis that has made its way to New York

New York City libs PANIC after Mayor declares State of Emergency over migrants dropped off by Gov. DeSantis and Gov. Abbott pic.twitter.com/56d84yOiye — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 10, 2023 NEW: Democrat Representative Jamaal Bowman hammers President Joe Biden over the …

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