What “The Situation in Syria” Really Means: The 133 prostitutes who voted with the Empire On August 3rd of this year, something truly remarkable happened at the United Nations: the UNGA passed a resolution formally condemning…
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“Scare the hell out of the American people.” ~ Senator Arthur Vandenburg, 1947. “It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war. ~ General Douglas MacArthur, May 15, 1952.” At one point in my youth it became clear that the U.S. was a violent force in the world, probably as I watched the Vietnam war news on the local TV news. Later, it also became clear that its whole history is one of violence, at home and abroad. More recently I had naively hoped that as the U.S. Empire goes through its death throes, that it would quit the world peacefully.
Prologue The Western media inform us on a regular basis about the cheap products sent to world from China, and about the substandard and even dangerous content of some of them. Lead in paint, melamine…
The Australian government denies a US aircraft carrier will be based near Perth. AAP/US Department of Defence. Defence Minister Stephen Smith has been saying long and loud that there are no US military bases in Australia, and that anyone who says otherwise is misinformed. Last week, after Australian media reported the recommendation to the Pentagon from a leading Washington think tank to consider basing a US Navy aircraft carrier task force at HMAS Stirling in Perth Mr Smith repeated his mantra: We don’t have United States military bases in Australia and we are not proposing to. What we have talked about in terms of either increased aerial access or naval access is precisely that – greater access to our facilities. What we are looking at down the track is the possibility of further or enhanced naval access to HMAS Stirling. Mr Smith, like so many of his predecessors, is misleading the public on a matter of vital interest to Australians. There are US bases in Australia – they are just not called that. All that is at issue is the degree of “jointness”.
Polarization No Extremism Yes Since the time of DeTocqueville’s Democracy in America, if not earlier, Americans have been aware of the tendency of their two-party system to restrain ideological polarization through an automatic process. In a…
Secretary of State responds negatively to continent’s needs for greater independence: : More Militarism to Ensure Profits Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toured eight African countries over an 11-day period where the United States top diplomat…
“They have shown only arrogance, not sincerity.” Chinese Ambassador Li Baodong, July 19, 2012, United Nations Security Council Following the first Persian Gulf War, in 1990-1991, authorized by the United Nations Security Council with the adoption of…
The Syrian Intelligence War: A Tale of Two Security Headquarters There is much more to the conflict in Syria than meets the eye. Syria is currently the scene of a cold war between the US,…
[Author’s note: Here is one too long for Huffington Post’s comment section about the US State Department’s attack on China’s treatment of religions. Hopefully, you may be interested. Attached below is my comment. It is the religions under the…
China: Rise, Fall and Re-Emergence as a Global Power: Some Lessons from the Past* Introduction The study of world power has been blighted by Eurocentric historians who have distorted and ignored the dominant role…
