’15 years later, lives lost, billions spent…’ Despite a vow to withdraw thousands of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by 2017, President Barack Obama this week veered the opposite direction, widening the U.S. military’s role in the entrenched, 15-years-long conflict. The Washington Post reported on Thursday evening that the Obama administration’s new measures “authorize U.S. troops, Read More…
Foreign Policy
US Airdrops Weapons to Syria
The U.S. just made the decision to airdrop weapons to the Syrian rebels now given the shiny new moniker of “Syrian Democratic Forces,” despite the fact that very recent history has shown that most of the airdropped weapons end up in the hands of ISIS. According to Al Jazeera, witnesses saw U.S. forces delivering the weapons directly to the Read More…
Reshaping Geopolitics: Breaking Down The Current “Free Trade” Deals
For many people still unaware, there are a variety of “free trade” deals being negotiated and worked on between various swaths of countries all over the world. As we have reported on several times at The Last American Vagabond, TPP is one of those under the radar trade deals that is attempting to be passed Read More…
Made In America: How The US Dominates The World Arms Trade
Who says nothing is made in the USA anymore? Certainly not the well-heeled denizens of the State Department’s diplomatic corps. And they should know. That’s because they’re stationed on the front lines of the ongoing battle to preserve Uncle Sam’s dominant market share of the global weapons trade. Luckily for the Military-Industrial Complex, it turns Read More…
Amazon Tribes Resist U.S. Anthropologists’ Attempt to Forcibly Contact the Uncontacted
In the absence of government support, Indigenous Peoples are increasingly speaking out in defense of uncontacted tribes. Fighting back against the notion, put forth by American academics, that isolated tribes must be forced into contact with the modern world, Amazonian Indians are warning of another potential Indigenous “genocide” if such ideas come to pass. U.S. Read More…
Chief of the CIA’s ‘Bin-Laden’ Unit Tells the World That al-Qaeda Never Existed
The number of ‘whistleblowers’ that have emerged over the years regarding the ongoing ‘war against terror’ is truly eye-opening. Unfortunately, many remain innocently ignorant given the fact that mainstream corporate media will not touch this stuff. They are, however, very quick to jump on the ‘terrorist’ bandwagon when an alleged attack is carried out, supposedly Read More…






