Militarism & Empire

Sy Hersh, a legendary reporter who paid homage to Dan Ellsberg in his last days, said:  “More than fifty years later, he was still pondering the war as a whole, and I was still trying to understand the My Lai massacre.”

… failure to raise the debt ceiling … would have more serious economic consequences than a government shutdown…

Review of Not One Inch: America, Russia and the Making of the Post-Cold War Stalemate by Mary E. Sarotte

How did U.S. win the Cold War in Indonesia, so global capitalism became its way of life?   The Indonesian man said simply: “You killed us.”

The roots of American Fascism were apparent 20 years ago. "U.C. Berkeley's Professor Torture" John Yoo argued for legalizing torture under George W. Bush, then misinterpreted the U.S. Constitution to make the presidency into a  "unitary executive" -- now expanded by the Roberts' Supreme Court to install the irrational dictatorship of Donald Trump.

LONDON, Dec. 7 - The playwright Harold Pinter turned his Nobel Prize acceptance speech on Wednesday into a furious howl of outrage against American foreign policy, saying that the United States had not only lied to justify waging war against Iraq but had also "supported and in many cases engendered every right-wing military dictatorship" in the last 50 years.

Open Letter to President Clinton calling the U.S.-led effort at Helsinki, Paris Summits to expand NATO is “a policy error of historic proportions.”

Three days before President-Elect John F. Kennedy assumed the office of president in 1961, outgoing President Eisenhower reflected on his two terms and issued his memorable warning in a historic  televised Farewell Address.