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American Exceptionalism Is on the Ropes and the End of the Petrodollar Is Nigh

June 21, 2020

American Exceptionalism Is on the Ropes and the End of the Petrodollar Is Nigh From the border wall rhetoric to trade wars, Trump is effectively setting up the implosion of the dollar and couching it as pseudo nationalistic populism. The pressure on the global economy imposed by the measures to curb the COVID-19 pandemic threatens […]

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The American Exceptionalism Myth and the Selling of U.S. Domination

June 11, 2018

The American Exceptionalism Myth and the Selling of U.S. Domination I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being. – Barack Obama, 2015. From birth, Americans are expected to believe in the notion of U.S. superiority over other peoples in other nations. The daily school ritual of pledging allegiance to the flag and playing […]

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Why The Empire Never Sleeps: The Indispensable Nation Folly

May 16, 2018

Why The Empire Never Sleeps: The Indispensable Nation Folly Like the case of Rome before it, the Empire is bankrupting America. The true fiscal cost is upwards of $1.o trillion per year (counting $200 billion for veterans and debt service for wars), but there is no way to pay for it. That’s because the 78-million strong Baby Boom is […]

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Venezuela: Revenge of the Mad-Dog Empire 

February 21, 2018

Venezuela: Revenge of the Mad-Dog Empire  Photo by Diariocritico de Venezuela | CC BY 2.0 Only in the world of comic-book fantasies is the United States a friend to the oppressed in Africa or anywhere else on the planet. In the real world, the U.S. is a predator, colonial/capitalist nation. But like the imagined nation […]

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America the Pariah

February 5, 2018

America the Pariah Female masked members of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, protest President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. (Adel Hana / AP) We proclaimed a dream of an America that would be a Shining City on a Hill. —President Ronald Reagan, 1984 I believe […]

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Hearing the Russian Perspective

January 3, 2016

Hearing the Russian Perspective The neocons and liberal hawks who dominate the U.S. foreign policy and media establishment are pushing the world toward a nuclear showdown with Russia as few people hear a comprehensive response from the other side, an imbalance that a new Russian documentary addresses, writes Gilbert Doctorow. By Gilbert Doctorow Without mincing […]

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Europe’s Complicity in Evil

June 26, 2015

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 […]

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Challenging American Exceptionalism

April 28, 2015

Challenging American Exceptionalism President Barack Obama stood behind the podium and apologized for inadvertently killing two Western hostages – including one American – during a drone strike in Yemen. Obama said, “one of the things that sets America apart from many other nations, one of the things that makes us exceptional, is our willingness to […]

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