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The Real Enemy Is Within

Chris Hedges — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 12:54:05 +0000

If you are not dedicated to the destruction of empire and the dismantling of American militarism, then you cannot count yourself as a member of the left. It is not a side issue. It is the issue.

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License to Kill

jimmy — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:41:17 +0000

But the Americans like their weapons, and they like handing them out as a show of support. But more often than not these weapons end up in the wrong hands: the ones they gave to Iraq are now in the hands of ISIS; the ones they gave to the Ukrainian nationalists have been sold to the Syrian government; the ones they gave to the government in Yemen is now in the hands of the Houthis who recently overthrew it.

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How Americans can help world peace

jimmy — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:00:22 +0000

The sobering fact for many Americans is that the world would be a better, far more peaceful place if only their government spent more time and resources tending to their own country's onerous social needs. Needless to say, America would be a far better place too for its citizens.
But this eminently reasonable outcome won't happen under present circumstances because US governance relies on imperialist conflict-making abroad.

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‘Good’ and ‘bad’ war – and the struggle of memory against forgetting

jimmy — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:24:50 +0000

Like most Koreans, the farmers and fishing families protested the senseless division of their nation between north and south in 1945 - a line drawn along the 38th Parallel by an American official, Dean Rusk, who had "consulted a map around midnight on the day after we obliterated Nagasaki with an atomic bomb," wrote Cumings. The myth of a "good" Korea (the south) and a "bad" Korea (the north) was invented.

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