Read the keystone essay – The American Empire
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US Regime Change – the Empire in action
February 16, 2024 Read the keystone essay – The American Empire X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image FootnotesJeffery Sachs, “Opinion | How the CIA Destabilizes the World | Common Dreams,” Common Dreams, February 12, 2024, https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/cia-destablizes-the-world. – Jeffrey D. Sachs --->> read more -->>Empire
American soldiers killed in Jordan – why are American soldiers there?
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Why are we spending $1.5 trillion on nuclear weapons?
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A thought for the day while looking around in TikTok
August 28, 2023 Read the keystone essay – The American Empire X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image FootnotesThis appeared in an article Marx wrote for The New York Tribune in 1859Empire
Our Empire, National Priorities, and the Iraq War revisited
August 9, 2023 Read the keystone essay – The American Empire X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image Footnoteshttps://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/Heidi Peltier, “We Get What We Pay For: The Cycle of Military Spending, Industry Power, and Economic Dependence | Costs of War,” Costs --->> read more -->>Empire
The Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) Memorial is coming
May 30, 2023 Read the keystone essay – The American Empire X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image Footnoteshttps://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwarhttps://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/refugees/iraqihttps://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2021/USCounterterrorismOperationsEmpire
The Presidential-Congressional-Military-Industrial Complex Grows Ever Fatter
May 9, 2023 Read the keystone essay – The American Empire X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image Footnotes Eisenhower's farewell speech is well worth a read. It is not very long. Many of its themes remain relevant. https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address#transcripthttps://news.clearancejobs.com/2022/08/16/how-many-people-have-a-top-secret-security-clearance/Empire, Racism/White Supremacy, Videos-Movies-Podcasts
The Empire and Capitalism – Expansion of Railroads Across the North American Continent
March 19, 2023 Read the keystone essay – The American Empire X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image Footnotesfrom the podcast series description: When journalist Danelle Morton’s daughter skips town to hop trains, she follows her into the train yard, and --->> read more -->>Capitalism, Economy, Education, Empire, Environment, Healthcare, Inequality, Politics, Racism/White Supremacy, Security State, Women
My Year End Siege of Angers – the list
January 1, 2023 Read the keystone essay – The American Empire X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image Footnoteshttps://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2022-economic-well-being-of-us-households-in-2021-dealing-with-unexpected-expenses.htmhttps://inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pandemic/ see the empirical study Martin Gilens, Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America (Princeton, N.J; New York: Princeton University --->> read more -->>Empire, Politics, Security State
9/11 and the Trump Pandemic – a contrast in reactions
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How America Tortures – a new report with drawings and a movie
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Recently Noted – Overthrow: 100 Years of US Meddling & Regime Change, from Iran to Nicaragua to Hawaii to Cuba
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US Empire and Jimmy Carter – five years of peace during our entire history
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American Wars – The Secrets of Vietnam and Afghanistan
December 6, 2018 Read the keystone essay – The American Empire X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image FootnotesAmerican "advisors" joined the French in 1950. The US government paid for most of the French military effort until their ignominious defeat at --->> read more -->>Empire, Videos-Movies-Podcasts
President Authorizes Coup in Iran
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Considering the Obama Presidency And Musings on Foreign Policy
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Cost of War – $5.6 trillion for US wars 2001-2017
December 12, 2017 Read the keystone essay – The American Empire X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image FootnotesDepartment of Defense, “Estimated Cost to Each Taxpayer for the Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.” July 2017, http://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/fy2018/Section_1090_FY17_NDAA_Cost_ of_Wars_to_Per_Taxpayer July_2017.pdf page 32 --->> read more -->>Empire
US Military Engagements – 1950 to present
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Thanksgiving – a bit of a corrective history telling and turkey adaptation
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Russian “Interference” and the American Empire – the lost ironies
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Trump and the Big Muddy – Afghanistan
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Recently Noted – about the American Empire
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Delusions of Empire – Iran in Iraq 15 Years After Bush’s War
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Movie – War Machine – a misplaced parable
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The Size of US Military – 2015
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Defending the Homeland
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John le Carré on Bush’s Iraq War – The United States of America Has Gone Mad
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US Imperialism Redux – Tom Lehrer
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Ten Years After Shock and Awe – A Crime Against Peace
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Are Americans Over Taxed, Over Defended, Bamboozled by the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Presidential Complex??
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Parallels and Prescience – on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 and the “War on Terror”
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More Thinking about the Defence Budget and US “Security” – a letter to the editor
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Bush, Anger and Dispair Over Our Situation
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9/11 and the Uses of American Amnesia (or Self Delusion)
September 20, 2010 Read the keystone essay – The American Empire X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous imageEmpire, Healthcare, Politics
Remarks on President Obama’s Speech on Accepting The Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo 12/10/2009
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Whither the American Empire?
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The Scale of American Warfare Post WWII – Vietnam
September 4, 2009 Read the keystone essay – The American Empire X Exit full screen gallery ⇗ Open full size image → Next image 0 of 0 ← Previous image FootnotesClodfelter, Micheal Vietnam in Military Statistics: A History of the Indochina Wars, 1792—1991'. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 1995, p. 225Empire, Politics, Security State
A New Thought on Terrorism
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Pondering at the Food Coop – the empire
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Pondering at the Food Coop
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North Korea – a visit to the “Axis of Evil” – book note
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