Category: Anti-Imperialism/Foreign Policy

Blowback in Benghazi?

Or was it something worse? by Justin Raimondo AntiWar.com The murder of US ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other US diplomats at the hands of rioters probably wasn’t just another case of Islamists-gone-wild. The circumstances surrounding this horrific incident — the riot was in reaction to […]

Liberalism’s old world order

The New Statesman By John Pilger werful and violent “ism”? The question will summon the usual demons such as Islamism, now that communism has left the stage. The answer, wrote Harold Pinter, is only “superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged”, because only one ideology claims to […]

The Self Destruction of Africa’s ANC

The Self Destruction of Africa’s ANC By Horand Knaup and Jan Puhl South Africa’s legendary African National Congress, the party of Nelson Mandela, is destroying itself. Corruption, cronyism, internal divisions and, more recently, the mine massacre in Marikana are draining support from the party’s base — and destroying […]

The Pentagon Pathology

By Gabriel Kolko The allocation of money within the American military system is reflected in which weapons are chosen—and why.  What is at stake are rivalries among military branches, which have influence and connections with arms producers, the Congress, and the entire complex matrix of factors that determine […]

Nationalism: The New Wave

By Spencer Pearson Part 1:  Ideology:  Nationalism 2.0 (b) Nationalism was the most successful radical ideology of the modern age insomuch as it is more or less universally accepted today that nations have the right to self determination, which is to say that they rule themselves in their […]

The Real America

  In 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, murdering tens of thousands of innocent people. Just three days earlier, it had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The Japanese had, as of early 1945, already asked for peace and a negotiated settlement. The Japanese military […]

Scott Horton interviews Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg, heroic liberator of the Pentagon Papers and author of the memoir Secrets, discusses the U.S. government’s use of nuclear weapons against Japanese civilians in World War II, the fake “Missile Gap” with the Soviets of the late 50s-early 60s, and the dire consequences for all of humanity from any […]

Suckering Liberals into Supporting Foreign Wars

By Stuart Bramhall George Washington has written a great post – Why Do Progressive Liberals Fall for Humanitarian War? – on Zero Hedge. It’s quite an an interesting site dedicated to “widening the scope of information available to the investing public.” All posts are submitted under fictitious names. In general the perspective […]

America’s Newest Enemy?

By Eric Margolis WASHINGTON—I was visiting Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States in the spring of 2011 when the phone on his desk rang. “The hotline,” he said. “Sorry, I have to take this call.” As he listened, his expression grew darker and darker. Finally, he banged down […]

Empire and the Denial of Death

By Thomas Naylor I was so taken by James Howard Kunstler’s book The Long Emergency back in 2005 that I immediately invited him to be the keynote speaker for the Vermont Independence Convention that year in the Vermont State House in Montpelier.  After reading his compelling novel,World Made By Hand, […]

Gore Vidal and Revisionism

By Jeff Riggenbach One of the forces involved in the recent heating up of the perennial American-history wars was the brilliant critical and popular success, during the 1970s and early 1980s, of the first three books in Gore Vidal’s six-volume[1] “American Chronicle” series of historical novels about the United […]

Interview with Alexander Dugin

From Counter-Currents Polish translation here 3,214 words Introduction In February 2012, Professor Alexander Dugin traveled to New Delhi, India to attend the 40th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, the theme of which was “After Western Hegemony: Social Science and its Publics.”Professor Dugin was kind enough to […]

War Criminals in Our Midst

By Paul Craig Roberts The State Department has an office that hunts German war criminals. Bureaucracies being what they are, the office will exist into next century when any surviving German prison guards will be 200 years old. From time to time the State Department claims to have […]