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How The Seeds Of Revolution Take Root
Seita/Shutterstock How The Seeds Of Revolution Take Root What motivates a populace to rebel against a regime? That the dramatic upheavals of war, pestilence and environmental collapse can trigger social disorder and revolution is well-established. Indeed, this dynamic can be viewed as the standard model of social disorder/revolution: a large-scale crisis—often a bolt-from-the-blue externality—upends the […]
Untangling America from the American Empire
Untangling America from the American Empire Those calling for an end of the Empire don’t seem to realize that the federal state’s vast entitlement programs are ultimately funded by the Empire. The Status Quo would have us believe that America and its Empire are one entity. This is handy for those with Imperial designs but […]
Junior Partner of Empire: Why Canada’s Foreign Policy Isn’t What You Think
Junior Partner of Empire: Why Canada’s Foreign Policy Isn’t What You Think Canada is not what it appears to outsiders. It is not what it seems even to Canadians. The idea that middle-power Canada is a strong, upright guy who steps into the fight hesitantly and defends the little man is a myth of grandiose […]
Imperial Failure: Lessons From Afghanistan and Iraq
Imperial Failure: Lessons From Afghanistan and Iraq The photographs in the New York Times told contrasting stories last week. One showed two Taliban soldiers in civilian clothes and sandals, with their rifles, standing in front of a captured U.N. vehicle. The Taliban forces had taken the northern provincial capital of Kunduz. The other photograph showed Afghan army […]
Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters
Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters Smoke and fumes from a 2012 fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif., sent 15,000 residents to hospitals or medical offices. Richmond City Council member Gayle McLaughlin, interviewed in the article below, is a vocal critic of Chevron’s effect on the environment and the corporation’s longtime political […]
America as Dangerous Flailing Beast
America as Dangerous Flailing Beast Despite pretty talk about “democracy” and “human rights,” U.S. leaders have become the world’s chief purveyors of chaos and death – from Vietnam through Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and many other unfortunate nations, a dangerous dilemma addressed by John Chuckman. When I think of America’s place in the world today, […]
Food Security: a Hostage to Wall Street
Food Security: a Hostage to Wall Street Imperialism and the Control of Agriculture In October of last year, World Food Day celebrated ‘Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth’. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s website, the family farming theme was chosen to raise the profile of family farming and smallholder […]
Europe’s Complicity in Evil
Europe’s Complicity in Evil Sovereignty or Imperialism? On September 5, 2009 I addressed an international conference in Austria on the subject of Europe’s subordination to the US and, thus, the absence of any constructive criticism of US foreign and domestic policies. Karel van Wolferen, whose website is http://www.karelvanwolferen.com, kindly reminded me of my address to the […]
Superpower in Distress
Superpower in Distress Think of this as a little imperial folly update — and here’s the backstory. In the years after invading Iraq and disbanding Saddam Hussein’s military, the U.S. sunk about $25 billion into “standing up” a new Iraqi army. By June 2014, however, that army, filled with at least 50,000 “ghost soldiers,” was only standing in […]
Revolution and American Empire
Revolution and American Empire When the Left Promotes the Political Economy of the Far-Right The American preference for ideological, or ideologically based, explanations of world events frames them as both self-generated and inexplicable— self-generated because causal relations recover history and thereby clutter ideology and inexplicable in that ideology didn’t exist until it did, again recovering […]
The US and China can avoid a collision course – if the US gives up its empire
The US and China can avoid a collision course – if the US gives up its empire The problem isn’t China’s rise, but rather America’s insistence on maintaining military and economic dominance right in China’s backyard To avoid a violent militaristic clash with China, or another cold war rivalry, the United States should pursue a simple […]
GCHQ’s Rainbow Lights: Exploiting Social Issues for Militarism and Imperialism
GCHQ’s Rainbow Lights: Exploiting Social Issues for Militarism and Imperialism Over the weekend, the British surveillance agency GCHQ — the most extremist and invasive in the West — bathed its futuristic headquarterswith rainbow-colored lights “as a symbol of the intelligence agency’s commitment to diversity” and to express solidarity with “International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.” GCHQ’s public affairs office proudly […]
CFR Says China Must Be Defeated And TPP Is Essential To That
CFR Says China Must Be Defeated And TPP Is Essential To That Wall Street’s Council on Foreign Relations has issued a major report, alleging that China must be defeated because it threatens to become a bigger power in the world than the U.S. This report, which is titled “Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China,” is […]
Hillary Clinton: Elitist, Imperialist, Politician Extraordinaire
Hillary Clinton: Elitist, Imperialist, Politician Extraordinaire The Democratic Party continues its illicit love affair with presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, when asked about then Senator Clinton’s vote authorizing President George Bush’s disastrous and murderous invasion of Iraq, said this: “Elections are about the future. They’re not about what happened 13 years […]
War—–The Birth And Health Of The State
War—–The Birth And Health Of The State In my essay “The Herd Mind,” I explained how “War is the health of the State,” according to Randolph Bourne: in particular, how war causes a country to regress from a diverse civilization to a uniform herd locked in fight-or-flight mode, and easily driven by the government. […]
