Empire

The other day I was poking around in TikTok to see —>> read more –>>

Recently I came across the Summer 2023 issue of Ja —>> read more –>>

A recent NPR report, “Global War on Terrorism Memo —>> read more –>>

President Eisenhower, previously General Eisenhowe —>> read more –>>

Recently I listened to the first episode of the po —>> read more –>>

Yesterday as I was taking a walk up and down Warre —>> read more –>>

Since I noticed that every day now as many Americans are dying in the Trump Pandemic as died during the 9/11 attacks I have thought about how different public and government reactions have been.

 How America Tortures by M. P. Denbeaux, & Set —>> read more –>>

We’ve written quite a bit about the US Empire. A k —>> read more –>>

Prompted by President Jimmy Carter, here is a list, self-described to “not pretend to be definitive or absolutely complete.”, of some of our adventures to bring democratic values to others in need.

The government and mass media use the phrase “in t —>> read more –>>

The recent movie The Post (about the Washington Po —>> read more –>>

Intervention in Iran – 65th Anniversary Iranian Pr —>> read more –>>

President Obama came into office on a wave of emot —>> read more –>>

The Watson Institute at Brown University has just —>> read more –>>

The US has been engaged in military actions, no ac —>> read more –>>

Corrective History The NYTimes posted a bit of Tur —>> read more –>>

Americans are unable to see the ironies in complaints about outsiders like the Russians attempting to influence our elections. We have a long history of conducting regime change.

Pete Seeger wrote a song “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy” in 1967 that became closely associated with President Johnson and the Vietnam War. Does Trump remember it?

A report about an amendment to the defense budget that would end the 2001 AUMF (Authorization for the Use of Military Force) that has provided legal cover for more than forty military actions around the world without Congressional oversight, just the decisions of three Presidents.

In the context of ceaseless angst and drum beating by politicians and experts over the threat of Iran to us and the rest of the world there is new evidence that the Iraq War has redounded to the benefit of Iran. In the July 15, 2017 NYTimes Tim Arango wrote an article about Iran’s quite comprehensive penetration of Iraqi society and government and the pipeline that exists between Iraq and the fighting in Syria. “Iran Dominates in Iraq After U.S. ‘Handed the Country Over’” appears to be Part 1 so presumably there will be more to follow. 

Netflix has just released War Machine onto the str —>> read more –>>