Category: Anti-Imperialism/Foreign Policy

NO CONFIDENCE: Vote for Yourself

In the face of a particularly pitiful election selection, Ann Sterzinger makes the case for giving oneself the first and final vote. Personally, were I American, I’d either just stay home or turn up only to draw a cock on the ballot paper, in line with my anti-democratic […]

America’s Culture War Mercenaries

Can there be any doubt that totalitarian humanism is the dominant ruling class ideology? By Rod Dreher The American Conservative A reader passes along a government document putting out bids for a contract. Here’s the top of the document: Apparently the (former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia, a small […]

On Dissolving the American Empire

Ronald Olden Libertarian Alliance The difficulty with America is that it tries to do too much. It’s one thing to become involved in a full scale war like the Second World War when the protagonists are Nation States and a decisive military outcome can be achieved. But it’s […]

Thoughts on the American Empire

Kevin Glick Libertarian Alliance “The world has been made worse by having the Americans try to rule it, and it will be made even worse once they give up and walk away.” (Sean Gabb) That’s an interesting perspective, and one with which it’s difficult to argue. While it […]

Keith Preston: Israel lobby controls most American politicians

Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/06/26/472326/Kerry-Netanyahu-US-Israel-Settlements-Palestine-Preston “Virtually all of the major [US] politicians from both of the major parties repeatedly kowtow to the Israel lobby,” say Keith Preston. The United States’ unconditional support for Israel will not end anytime soon as most of the American politicians, regardless of their […]

Election 2016: Back to the 1970s?

If the Trump and Sanders movements become a permanent fixture of US politics, the real effect of this will be to repeal the Reagan Revolution and bring American politics back to what it was in the 1970s, and with relatively similar political, economic, and social circumstances (minus the […]

It’s imperialism, stupid!

Finally, a leftist who gets it. Although I do think the ATS perspective is superior to Trumpism. Aidan O’Brien Counterpunch Have we reached the endgame of Western democracy? When we heard Chomsky, a week or two ago on Democracy Now, saying that if pushed he’d vote for Clinton, […]

Keith Preston: US fighter jet makers fretting over possible scrapping of PG Arab deal’

Press TV. Listen here: http://217.218.67.231/Detail/2016/05/07/464471/US-jet-makers-worried Preston believes US fighter jet makers are fretting over losing revenue if they cannot sell jets to Persian Gulf Arab allies. US fighter jet manufacturers are concerned about the future of sales to America’s Persian Gulf Arab allies, which in part explains a […]

Don’t Trust Trump on Foreign Policy

By Thomas Knapp The Garrison Center In March, an open letter from 121 Republican “national security leaders” characterized GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s foreign policy vision as “wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle,” swinging “from isolationism to military adventurism within the space of one sentence.” While it’s always wise […]

Is War by Assassination on its Way?

By William S. Lind Traditional Right Russia intervened in Syria, did what it came to do–strengthen the position of the Assad government–and has partially withdrawn. Meanwhile, our war with ISIS continues its endless futility, an inevitable result of war by pinking. War by plinking, using airstrikes that blow […]