Showing posts with label militarism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label militarism. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

"9-11 occurred eighteen years ago. The state terrorism of the war on terror continues. Its justification, if it ever had one, is long past."

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There’s so much to talk about. And we won’t. To me, having an honest discussion about America is what honors the dead, not rote remembr...

American militarism: “The best defense against militarism is peace; the next best thing is the vigorous practice of democracy.”

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Because the best antidote to irrationality is rationality, not compounded irrationality. The Riptide of American Militarism: Lessons f...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

"Militarization Has Become Our National Religion."

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By means of introduction, The Nation explains. America’s twenty-first-century wars have been coming home in another way as well: in the ...
Sunday, August 04, 2019

The bombing and war cult: "Pounding peasants from two miles up is not exactly an ideal way to occupy the moral high ground in war."

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Photo credit: Common Dreams (via AFP/Getty) William J. Astore is a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF), who has taught at the Air Force A...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Historical amnesia: "The Militarization of the Southern Border Is a Long-Standing American Tradition."

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There is very little "new" under the sun, but with the advent of the internetz and social media, there are numerous and innovat...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

(Psst -- it's not about the flag or the military, and it never has been.)

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I'm often reminded of Thomas Jefferson's words: "Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to ri...
Friday, April 07, 2017

Now more than ever: "US Military Should Get Out of the Middle East."

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Hama Rules, 1982. It isn't minimizing the horror of chemical weapons to offer a reminder that there is a thing called Assad-Vu in S...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

America's "empire of chaos," a cannon now turned inward and pointed at YOU, lord.

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Ready for more uplifting Tuesday morning reading? Okay, here goes. We've uncorked the bad genie from so many worldwide bottles, and now...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

"These aircraft ... are normally used to do stuff like carry troops, bomb buildings and kill people."

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Back in 2007, Lucinda Marshall said it so well in LEO that I needn't elaborate, apart from this stellar Michael Parenti quote from Agai...
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