Chalmers Johnson wrote this piece for Tom’s Dispatch in 2009. I think the prescription remains as accurate, perhaps even more so in today, as we witness the untrammelled bellicose behaviour of the US on the international stage. The interesting part of the current republican administration’s method is that, in fact,
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Dead Wild Roses: On Neo-Liberalism/Globalization – Chalmers Johnson
I’m almost done with Sorrows of Empire so I will stop deluging the blog with quotes, but I cannot forgo Johnson’s explanation of the mutating monster that Neo-liberalism is. I’d like to reproduce the entire chapter because it is that good, but instead we’ll look at how insidious neo-liberalism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Spoils of War – Anti-American Sentiment in Greece
It seems like so few people understand the context of empire and how it affects American foreign policy. Let’s take a quick peek at Greece and how we treat fellow democracies when it comes to maintaining ‘interests of state’. “In the case of Spain there is some plausibility to
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