Clinton Promotes War While US Public Opinion Speaks to Anti-Militarist Populism
United States :: 11.14.2016Introduction: Castigating the US electorate as accomplices and facilitators of wars, or, at best, dismissing the voters as ignorant sheep-people (’sheeple’) herded by political elites, describes a partial reality. Public opinion polls, even the polls overwhelmingly slanted toward the center-right, consistently describe a citizenry opposed to militarism and wars, past and present.
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New Essays
US Public Opinion Speaks to Anti-Militarism, the Electorate Votes for Warmongers
United States :: 11.09.2016Castigating the US electorate as accomplices and facilitators of wars, or at best describing it as ignorant sheep herded by political elites, speaks only to a partial reality; in public opinion polls, even in ones weighted overwhelmingly to the center-right, the American people consistently opposse militarism and wars, past and present.
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The Nemesis and Scourges of the Western World
Analysis :: 11.06.2016Without resorting too much to the wisdom of the ancient Greek myths, we have come to believe that states, regimes, movements and people finally will emerge to act as the inescapable agents of the justice leading to the downfall of the Western empire
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Wall Street and the Pentagon: Pre-mature Political and Military Ejaculations
Analysis :: 11.02.2016Introduction: Wall Street and the Pentagon greeted the onset of 2016 as a ‘banner year’, a glorious turning point in the quest for malleable regimes willing to sell-off the most lucrative economic resources, to sign off on onerous new debt to Wall Street and to grant use of their strategic military bases to the Pentagon.
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Washington’s ‘Pivot to Asia’: A Debacle Unfolding
United States :: 10.24.2016Introduction: In 2012 President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Ashton Carter launched a new chapter in their quest for global dominance: a realignment of policies designed to shift priorities from the Middle East to Asia.
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Washington’s Global Economic Wars
United States :: 10.18.2016Introduction: During most of the past two decades Washington has aggressively launched military and economic wars against at least nine countries, either directly or through its military aid to regional allies and proxies. US air and ground troops have bombed or invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon.
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Overview of Class Struggle
Latin America :: 10.17.2016The class struggle from below has taken different forms and directions, with greater or lesser intensity, between countries and within countries in different time periods.
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