Showing posts with label empire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label empire. Show all posts
Friday, July 09, 2021

TGIF: Watch the Forest as Well as the Trees

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It's always important not to miss the forest for the trees. U.S. government announcements, such as its report of the turnover to the Afg...
Friday, February 05, 2021

TGIF: Imperial America, Which Never Left, Is Back

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In a cliche-ridden foreign-policy speech delivered at the State Department on Thursday, President Joe Biden declared that "America is b...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Hot off the Press! Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism

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  It my supreme pleasure to announce the availability of Scott Horton's great new book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism...
Friday, February 21, 2020

TGIF: The Nonintervention Principle

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Anyone old enough to think about "America's" role in the world ought to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. For ...
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Friday, January 10, 2020

Drop Everything and Read this Article!

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"How to Avoid Swallowing War Propaganda" by Nathan J. Robinson is an extraordinarily important article. I cannot recommend it too...
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TGIF: Trump’s Escalation Imperils Innocents

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While an eerie, surreal calm has fallen over US-Iranian relations, I wouldn’t assume we’re out of the woods yet. Trump had no reason to ...
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Friday, January 25, 2019

Interview: America's Bipartisan War Culture

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I recently talked to Scott Horton about America's war culture. Listen here .
Friday, January 18, 2019

TGIF: America's War Culture

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For most of the opinion-making class in America today, war is the default position. Representatives of establishment newspapers and TV news...
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Friday, November 23, 2018

TGIF: Trump's Foreign Policy War on Americans

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Beyond any reasonable doubt, in substance if not in appearance, Donald Trump is a thoroughly conventional American politician. It’s a wo...
Friday, March 23, 2018

TGIF: The Iraq Invasion after 15 Years

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On the 10th anniversary of the U.S. government's criminal, catastrophic, and still-to-this-day consequential war against Iraq in March ...
Friday, February 16, 2018

TGIF: "Peace Through Strength" Is a Racket

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Donald Trump has embraced the popular "peace through strength" doctrine (PTSD) with his characteristic panache:  "I’m goin...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Radio Interview: Why I Am Proud NOT to Have “Served” in Vietnam

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I was on the Craig Silverman Show yesterday talking about why I am proud not to have "served" in Vietnam. Listen here .
Friday, February 09, 2018

TGIF: Raining on the Parade

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Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade. I'd be surprised if he didn't. It's just what an insecure narcissist would want....
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Friday, October 27, 2017

TGIF: New York Times Acknowledges US Global Empire

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One big advantage the war party has is the public’s ignorance about the activities of the far-flung American empire. Although frustrating, t...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

TGIF: Dying for the Empire is Not Heroic

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Predictably, the news media spent most of the week examining words Donald Trump may or may not have spoken to the widow of an American Green...
Friday, June 30, 2017

TGIF: The American Way of War

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The most striking fact about the United States of America is not its supposed founding principles — more often lauded than observed — but ho...
Friday, June 09, 2017

TGIF: Let's All Calm Down about Russia

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I can understand why the ruling elite, broadly conceived to include the intel bureaucracy and the military-industrial complex, has an intere...
Friday, June 02, 2017

TGIF: An Idiot Abroad

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I've got a few leftover thoughts from Donald Trump's trip to Europe. As usual, I oppose both Trump and his mainstream critics. It...
Monday, May 29, 2017

Revisionist History Day, 2017

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Today is  Revisionist History Day , what others call Memorial Day. Americans are supposed to remember the country's war dead while bei...
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Friday, May 19, 2017

TGIF: The Real Danger from Trump Is Ignored

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While the chattering classes spend all their time rehashing Donald Trump’s alleged — there’s a word you don’t much see in the media anymore ...