War Certainly Is A Racket
Iain Davis In 1935, Major General Smedley Butler’s seminal book “War Is A Racket” warned of the dangers of the US military-industrial complex, more than 25 years before the...
The US Pivot to Asia: Cold War Lessons From Vietnam for Today
Cynthia Chung There were Cold War preparations underway as early as August 1945 and the two regions selected, Korea and Vietnam, were pre-planned years in advance before the actual...
The Divine Right of Dark-hearted Despots
This essay was in part, inspired by — and written in memory of — William Blum (1932-2018). Blum was a comrade-in-arms, and himself one of the great keyboard warriors...
Fidel Castro Defies US Imperialism Even in Death
by Finian Cunningham at StrategicCulture.com At age 90, Fidel Castro passed away after decades of heroic struggle for social justice, not just for his native Cuba but for all...
America's Real Foreign Policy: Global Corporatization by Force
by Noam Chomsky, via Common Dreams (2014) The question of how foreign policy is determined is a crucial one in world affairs. In these comments, I can only provide...
70 years after the world’s first real taste of US “exceptionalism”
August 6 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Approximately 70,000 people died immediately from the blast and resultant fire...
