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The Hidden Structure of U.S. Empire
The Hidden Structure of U.S. Empire My father was a doctor in the British Royal Navy, and I grew up traveling by troop-ship between the last outposts of the British Empire – Trincomalee, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Malta, Aden, Singapore – and living in and around naval dockyards in England and Scotland. The British naval bases […]
The Illusion of War Without Casualties
The Illusion of War Without Casualties America’s wars in the post-9/11 era have been characterized by relatively low U.S. casualties, but that does not mean that they are any less violent than previous wars, Nicolas J.S. Davies observes. Last Sunday’s Oscar Awards were interrupted by an incongruous propaganda exercise featuring a Native American actor and Vietnam […]
U.S. Empire Still Incoherent After All These Years
U.S. Empire Still Incoherent After All These Years Exclusive: Without solid economic, political and ideological bases, the U.S. lacks the legitimacy and authority it needs to operate beyond its borders, argues Nicolas J.S. Davies in this essay. I recently reread Michael Mann’s book, Incoherent Empire, which he wrote in 2003, soon after the U.S. invasion […]
A National Defense Strategy of Sowing Global Chaos
A National Defense Strategy of Sowing Global Chaos In the new U.S. National Defense Strategy, military planners bemoan the erosion of the U.S.’s “competitive edge,” but the reality is that they are strategizing to maintain the American Empire in a chaotic world, explains Nicolas J.S. Davies. Presenting the 2018 National Defense Strategy of the United […]
Giving War Too Many Chances
Giving War Too Many Chances As the new year begins, it is important for the U.S. to acknowledge its troubling history of global war-making, especially over the past two-decades, as Nicolas J.S. Davies delineates. I met John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Christmas Eve in 1969. I joined them and a small group of local […]
How America Spreads Global Chaos
How America Spreads Global Chaos The U.S. government may pretend to respect a “rules-based” global order, but the only rule Washington seems to follow is “might makes right” — and the CIA has long served as a chief instigator and enforcer, writes Nicolas J.S. Davies. As the recent PBS documentary on the American War in […]
Through the ‘War on Terror’ Looking Glass
Through the ‘War on Terror’ Looking Glass Exclusive: The U.S. government’s 15-year-long “global war on terror” has spread death and chaos across entire regions – while also imposing propaganda narratives on Americans – with no end in sight, says Nicolas J S Davies. The Airwars.org U.K.-based monitoring group reports that 41 U.S-led air strikes targeting ISIS […]
Playing Games with War Deaths
Playing Games with War Deaths There’s a double standard in how the U.S. mainstream media reports civilian deaths depending if the U.S. military is fighting the wars or not, accepting absurdly low numbers when the U.S. is at fault and hyping death tolls when “enemies” are involved, a manipulation of human tragedy, says Nicolas J S Davies. How […]
