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Bread, Circuses, and Duct Tape
Bound at the Border, or How to Make Border Porn
• March 5, 2019
• 2,700 Words • 9 Comments • Reply
On February 15th, Donald Trump declared a state of national emergency in order to fund his “great, great” border wall without having to go through Congress. There is, of course, no emergency, despite the rape fantasy that the president has regularly tried to pass off as public policy. In speech after speech, including his declaration... Read More
How Not to Build a “Great, Great Wall”
A Timeline of Border Fortification
• January 13, 2019
• 3,200 Words • Leave a Comment
The point was less to actually build “the wall” than to constantly announce the building of the wall. “We started building our wall. I’m so proud of it,” Donald Trump tweeted. “What a thing of beauty.” In fact, no wall, or certainly not the “big, fat, beautiful” one promised by Trump, is being built. True,... Read More
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Kissinger, the Bombardier
How Diplomacy by Air Power Became an All-American Tradition
• November 8, 2015
• 3,500 Words • 18 Comments • Reply
In April 2014, ESPN published a photograph of an unlikely duo: Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and former national security adviser and secretary of state Henry Kissinger at the Yankees-Red Sox season opener. In fleece jackets on a crisp spring day, they were visibly enjoying each other’s company, looking for all the... Read More
Debacle, Inc.
How Henry Kissinger Helped Create Our “Proliferated” World
• September 27, 2015
• 4,000 Words • 21 Comments • Reply
The only person Henry Kissinger flattered more than President Richard Nixon was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. In the early 1970s, the Shah, sitting atop an enormous reserve of increasingly expensive oil and a key figure in Nixon and Kissinger’s move into the Middle East, wanted to be dealt with as a serious... Read More
The Confederate Flag at War
(But Not the Civil War)
• July 7, 2015
• 3,200 Words • 3 Comments • Reply
The Pentagon just can’t let go. In the wake of the Charleston Massacre, Amazon and Walmart have announced that they will no longer sell Confederate flag merchandise. Ebay says it will stop offering Confederate items for electronic auction. Mississippi's Republican speaker of the housecalls his state flag, which includes the Stars and Bars in the... Read More
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The War to Start All Wars
The 25th Anniversary of the Forgotten Invasion of Panama
• December 21, 2014
• 3,200 Words • 7 Comments • Reply
As we end another year of endless war in Washington, it might be the perfect time to reflect on the War That Started All Wars -- or at least the war that started all of Washington’s post-Cold War wars: the invasion of Panama. Twenty-five years ago this month, early on the morning of December 20,... Read More
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The Bleached Bones of the Dead
What the Modern World Owes Slavery (It’s More Than Back Wages)
• February 23, 2014
• 3,200 Words • 7 Comments • Reply
Many in the United States were outraged by the remarks of conservative evangelical preacher Pat Robertson, who blamed Haiti’s catastrophic 2010 earthquake on Haitians for selling their souls to Satan. Bodies were still being pulled from the rubble -- as many as 300,000 died -- when Robertson went on TV andgave his viewing audience a... Read More
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The Two Faces of Empire
Melville Knew Them, We Still Live With Them
• January 26, 2014
• 2,600 Words • Leave a Comment
A captain ready to drive himself and all around him to ruin in the hunt for a white whale. It’s a well-known story, and over the years, mad Ahab in Herman Melville’s most famous novel, Moby-Dick, has been used as an exemplar of unhinged American power, most recently of George W. Bush’s disastrous invasion of... Read More
PastClassics
China's Rise, America's Fall
Which superpower is more threatened by its “extractive elites”?
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American Pravda: Holocaust Denial
Analyzing the History of a Controversial Movement
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American Pravda: Oddities of the Jewish Religion
The Surprising Elements of Talmudic Judaism
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American Pravda: Understanding World War II
The Shaping Event of Our Modern World
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American Pravda: How Hitler Saved the Allies
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9/11 Was an Israeli Job
How America was neoconned into World War IV
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