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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 -->>
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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

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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 -->>
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The Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) Memorial is coming

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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/
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The Empire and Capitalism – Expansion of Railroads Across the North American Continent

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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 -->>
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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 -->>
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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 -->>
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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)

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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. 225
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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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A Fog of War or a Fog of Ethics?

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