Networks of Empire and Realignments of World Power
James Petras Imperial states build networks which link economic, military and political activities into a coherent mutually reinforcing system. This task is largely performed by the various institutions of the imperial state. Thus imperial action is not… more »
Decline and Fall (Maybe) January 1, 2011
The Happy New Year Edition (with some good news about 2011) Michael Collins more »
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President Obama and the US Generals in Search of Navigational Change
By Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D H.G. Wells (Outline of History), once noted on the fall and decline of the Roman Empire: “so began the first of the most wasteful and disastrous series of wars that has ever darkened the history of mankind.” The 21st century… more »
Any respect for International law left in the US Congress?
By Franklin Lamb This week marks the second anniversary of among the most savage criminal slaughters of human life in long memory. The 522 hour indiscriminate carnage, “Cast Lead” that killed 1,417 Palestinians, mostly civilians, 352 of them children,… more »
Hail to the Chief: Spinning Obama's Presidency
by Stephen Lendman As if on cue, major media reports hailed "the Comeback Kid." In Obama's December 22 press conference, Reuters' Caren Bohan asked: "You racked up a lot of wins in the last few weeks that a lot of people thought would be difficult to… more »
The Enemy Within
By Jeff Gates The phrase “enemy within” brings to mind the image of a shadowy spy stealing military secrets. That was the case for Israeli master spy Jonathan Pollard jailed for 1980s espionage that compromised U.S. Cold War strategy. That phrase also… more »
Was Jesus a Socialist?
By Robert Bows And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? --William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming, 1920 One of the techniques of successful propaganda is to repeat a statement over and over again until… more »
10 great progressive moments of 2010
Mary Shaw 2010 was a wild ride. The year had its share of low points for progressives, like the reelection defeats of Senator Russ Feingold and Representative Alan Grayson, the scrapping of a single-payer health care option, Arizona's xenophobic new… more »
Unity in 2011
by Timothy V. Gatto As 2010 comes to a close, I’m reflecting on everything that has happened. In my personal life, it really hasn’t been a bad year. I’ve had two books published, a novel and a political book. I guess that seeing my novel in print… more »
Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
By Gary Kohls, MD Duty to Warn: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America Excerpts from Robert Whitaker’s Anatomy of an Epidemic From Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 7, Number 1, Spring 2005 Full… more »
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