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NEWSLETTER NUMBER 15, US EMPIRE, US NATIONAL SECURITY
STATE, NATIONALISM, MILITARISM, SURVEILLANCE.
June 22, 2014.
Compiled by Dick Bennett, Building a Culture of Peace
and Justice.
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#2 Sept. 20, 2007
#3 April 7, 2008
#4 Nov. 30, 2008
#5 September 13, 2011
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#7 January 16, 2012
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#9 Oct. 20, 2012
#10 April 5, 2013
#11 June 3, 2013
#12 July 19, 2013
#13 Sept. 3, 2013
#14 March 2, 2014
What’s
at stake: We can decrease
violence in the world by ending US
“The question, patently, is
not whether we are willing to socialize but what. ‘The socialization of death,’ says Michael
Harrington, ‘is, thus far at least, much more generally popular than the
socialization of life.’ The military
have become ardent and dangerous competitors for power in American
society.” J. William Fulbright, The Crippled Giant (1972, 253).
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Repeal the
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Nicholas Davies , US
TomGram, Secret Wars, Nick Turse Special Ops
in 134 Countries
Bruce Gagnon: Gagnon, Boyle, and Muzaffar on
US Machinations
Jimmy Carter: US the Leading War-Monger
Andrew Bacevitch, How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country
Cason, FCNL: US War Budget
Chatterjee and Maira, The Imperial University
Dan Glazebrook, Divide and Ruin: The West’s Imperial Strategy
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[Many books adduce evidence for Davies’ thesis. Two are by William Blum: Killing Hope and Rogue State US
Soon after the 2004 U.S. coup to depose President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide of Haiti , I heard
Aristide's lawyer Ira Kurzban speaking in Miami Washington D.C. Washington
D.C.
To place the coup in Ukraine in historical context, this is at least
the 80th time the United
States Iran U.S. U.S.
has brought to power in Ukraine
Noam Chomsky calls
William Blum's classic, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since
World War II, "Far
and away the best book on the topic." If you're looking for
historical context for what you are reading or watching on TV about the coup in
Ukraine U.S.
The disquieting reality
of the world we live in is that American efforts to destroy democracy, even as
it pretends to champion it, have left the world less peaceful, less just and
less hopeful. When Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature in
2005, at the height of the genocidal American war on Iraq U.S.
The basic framework of U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. war on Iraq
was a form of regime change that involved hundreds of thousands of U.S. U.S. role in General
Suharto's coup in Indonesia Ukraine
But as Harold Pinter
explained, the U.S. U.S.
special forces use proxies and covert operations to overthrow governments and
suppress movements that challenge America U.S. Iraq
only became a target for U.S. U.S.
attacked Panama U.S. operations and methods that enabled them to
resist regime change by anything less than overwhelming U.S.
But most U.S. coups follow a model that has hardly
changed between 1953 and the latest coup in Ukraine
1) Creating and
strengthening opposition forces
In the early stages of a
U.S. Asia after
World War II. They include forming and funding conservative political
parties, student groups, trade unions and media outlets, and running well-oiled
propaganda campaigns both in the country being targeted and in regional,
international and U.S. media.
Post-WWII Italy is a case in point. At
the end of the war, the U.S.
used the American Federation of Labor's agents in France
and Italy Italy U.S.
worked with the Catholic Church, conducted a massive propaganda campaign using
Italian-American celebrities like Frank Sinatra, and printed 10 million letters
for Italian-Americans to mail to their relatives in Italy U.S.
The FDP was reduced from
a combined 40% of the votes in 1946 to 31% in 1948, leaving Italy Italy was saved
from an imaginary communist dictatorship, but more importantly from an
independent democratic socialist program committed to workers' rights and to
protecting small and medium-sized Italian businesses against competition from U.S.
The U.S. employed similar tactics in Chile in the 1960s to prevent the election
of Salvador Allende. He came within 3% of winning the presidency in 1958,
so the Kennedy administration sent a team of 100 State Department and CIA
officers to Chile
But despite the U.S. U.S.
In Ukraine , the U.S.
The U.S. Ukraine Ukraine "the biggest
prize" in a Washington Post op-ed in September 2013, as the U.S.
In November 2013, the
European Union presented President Yanukovich with a 1,500 page "free trade agreement,"
similar to NAFTA or the TPP, but which withheld actual EU membership from Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine as a
gateway to flood Russia with
cheap products from Asia . This would have
forced Russia to close its
borders to Ukraine ,
shattering the industrial economy of Eastern Ukraine .
Understandably, and for
perfectly sound reasons as a Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovich rejected
the EU agreement. This was the signal for pro-Western and right-wing
groups in Kiev U.S.
In Tehran in 1953, the CIA spent a million
dollars to hire gangsters and "extremely competent professional
organizers", as the CIA's Kermit Roosevelt called them, to stage
increasingly violent demonstrations, until loyal and rebel army units were
fighting in the streets of Tehran U.S.
interests is a common result of CIA coups, most notably in Latin America, where
they have led many of our closest neighbors to become increasingly committed to
political and economic independence from the United States
In Haiti in 2004, 200 U.S. special forces trained 600 FRAPH militiamen
and other anti-Lavalas forces at a training camp across the border in the Dominican Republic Haiti
In Ukraine Ukraine U.S. and Europe ,
and may be a creation of the CIA. After Right Sector seized government
buildings, parliament outlawed the protests and the police reoccupied part of Independence Square
On February 7th, the
Russians published an intercepted
phone call betweenAssistant
Secretary of State Nuland and U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt. The
intercept revealed that U.S.
officials were preparing to seize the moment for a coup in Ukraine U.S.
On the night of February
17th, Right Sector announced a march from Independence Square Independence Square Kiev Yugoslavia who
earn up to $2,000
per day shooting soldiers in Syria.
As violence raged in the
streets, the government and opposition parties held emergency meetings and reached
two truce agreements, one on the night of February 19th and another on the 21st, brokered by the foreign
ministers of France , Germany and Poland
3) The coup d'etat.
The creation and
grooming of opposition forces and the spread of violence in the streets are
deliberate strategies to create a state of emergency as a pretext for removing
an elected or constitutional government and seizing power. Once the coup
leaders have been trained and prepared by their CIA case officers, U.S.
officials have laid their plans and street violence has broken down law and
order and the functioning of state institutions, all that remains is to strike
decisively at the right moment to remove the government and install the coup
leaders in its place. In Iran Chile Haiti
in 2004, U.S.
In Ukraine Russia
The main thing that
distinguishes the U.S. coup
in Ukraine from the majority
of previous U.S. U.S.
But the neutral or
pro-Russian position of the Ukrainian military since it was separated from the
Soviet Red Army in 1991 made it an impractical tool for an anti-Russian coup.
So Nuland and Pyatt's signal innovation in Ukraine
Historically, about half
of all U.S. U.S. U.S.
military intervention in Ukraine
was not an option before the coup, but now the coup itself may destabilize the
country and plunge it into economic collapse, regional disintegration or
conflict with Russia
The U.S. coup machine has also been at work in Venezuela Chile
Another feature of U.S. U.S. U.S. corporate media have turned vice into
virtue, relishing their role in the demonization of America 's
chosen enemies and cheerleading U.S. U.S.
responsibility for violence and chaos under the carpet, and sympathetically
present U.S.
This is far more than is
required by strict observance of secrecy laws, and it reveals a great deal
about the nature of the media environment we live in. The Western media
as it exists today under near-monopoly corporate ownership is a more sophisticated
and total propaganda system than early 20th century propagandists ever dreamed
of. As media corporations profit from Western geopolitical and commercial
expansion, the propaganda function that supports that expansion is an
integrated part of their business model, not something exceptional they do
under duress from the state. But to expect factual journalism about U.S.
Recent studies have found that people gain a better grasp of
current affairs from John Stewart's Daily Show on Comedy Central than from
watching "news" networks. People who watch no "news"
at all have more knowledge of international affairs than people who watch MSNBC
or Fox News. A previous survey conducted 3 months after the U.S. invasion of Iraq
found that 52% of Americans believed that U.S.
forces in Iraq Iraq
If the role of the
corporate media was to provide factual journalism, these studies would be a
terrible indictment of their performance. But once we acknowledge their
actual role as the propaganda arm of an expansionist political and economic
system, then we can understand that promoting the myths and misinformation that
sustain it are a central part of what they do. In that light, they are
doing a brilliant job on Ukraine
as they did on Iraq ,
suppressing any mention of the U.S.
role in the coup and pivoting swiftly away from the unfolding crisis in
post-coup Ukraine to focus
entirely on attacking President Putin for reclaiming Crimea .
On the other hand, if you're looking for factual journalism about the U.S.
Nicolas J. S. Davies is the author
of Blood
On Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq
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These days, when I check out the latest news on Washington
Take last Saturday's Washington Post report by Craig
Whitlock on the stationing of less than two dozen U.S.
“military advisers” in war-torn Somalia U.S. U.S. in Somalia
Some days when I read the news, I can’t help but think of
the late Chalmers Johnson; on others, the satirical newspaper the Onion comes to mind. If Washington did it -- and by “it,” I mean invade and
occupy a country, intervene in a rebellion against an autocrat, intervene in a
civil war, launch a drone campaign against a terror outfit, or support and
train local forces against some group the U.S. doesn’t like -- you already know
all you need to know. Any version of the above has repeatedly translated into
one debacle or disaster after another. In the classic term of CIA
tradecraft that Johnson took for the title of a book -- a
post-9/11 bestseller -- send a drone over Yemen with
the intent to kill, kick down doors in Afghanistan or Iraq, put U.S. boots back
on the ground in Somalia and you’re going to be guaranteed “unintended
consequences” and undoubtedly some form of “blowback” as well. To use a
sports analogy, if since 9/11 Washington
You would think that someone in the nation’s capital
might have drawn a lesson or two from such a record, something simple like: Don’t
do it! But -- here’s where the Onion should be able to run riot -- there
clearly is no learning curve in Washington United States ,
managed, with Washington
The earliest GWOTsters, all Onion-style
satirists, believed that the U.S. Baghdad Tehran U.S. U.S.
has left the Greater Middle East, from North Africa to Syria , from Yemen
to Afghanistan Afghanistan and Iraq
And the lessons drawn? As TomDispatch regular Nick
Turse, author of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real
American War in Vietnam (just
out in paperback), suggests in today’s post, the Obama administration has
overseen the reorganization of the Global War on Terror as a vast secret
operation of unrivaled proportions. It now oversees a planetary surveillance network of staggering size and reach (itself leading to historic blowback) and the spread of a secret military spawned
inside the U.S. military and now undergoing typically mindless expansion on
a gargantuan scale. What could possibly go wrong? Tom
They operate in the green glow of night vision in
Southwest Asia and stalk through the jungles of South
America . They snatch men from
their homes in the Maghreband shoot it out with
heavily armed militants in the Horn of Africa. They feel the salty spray
while skimming over the tops of waves from the turquoise Caribbean
to the deep blue Pacific. They conduct missions in the oppressive heat of
Middle Eastern deserts and the deep freeze of Scandinavia . All over the planet, the Obama
administration is waging a secret
war whose full extent
has never been fully revealed -- until now.
Since September 11, 2001, U.S. Special Operations forces
have grown in every conceivable way, from their numbers to their budget.
Most telling, however, has been the exponential rise in special ops deployments
globally. This presence -- now, in nearly 70% of the world’s nations --
provides new evidence of the size and scope of a secret war being waged from
Latin America to the backlands of Afghanistan
In the waning days of the Bush presidency, Special
Operations forces were reportedly deployed in about 60 countries around the
world. By 2010, that number had swelled to 75, according to
Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe of theWashington
Post. In 2011, Special Operations Command (SOCOM) spokesman
Colonel Tim Nye told TomDispatch that the total would reach
120. Today, that figure has risen higher still.
In 2013, elite U.S. U.S. America
Growth Industry
Formally established in 1987, Special Operations Command
has grown steadily in the post-9/11 era. SOCOM is reportedly on
track to reach 72,000 personnel in 2014, up from 33,000 in 2001. Funding
for the command has also jumped exponentially as its baseline budget, $2.3
billion in 2001, hit $6.9 billion in 2013 ($10.4 billion, if you add in
supplemental funding). Personnel deployments abroad have skyrocketed,
too, from 4,900 “man-years” in 2001 to 11,500 in 2013.
A recent investigation by
TomDispatch, using open source government documents and news releases as well
as press reports, found evidence
that U.S. Special Operations forces were deployed in or involved with the
militaries of 106 nations around the world in 2012-2013. For more than a
month during the preparation of that article, however, SOCOM failed to provide accurate statistics
on the total number of countries to which special operators -- Green Berets and
Rangers, Navy SEALs and Delta Force commandos, specialized helicopter crews,
boat teams, and civil affairs personnel -- were deployed. “We don’t
just keep it on hand,” SOCOM’s Bockholt explained in a telephone interview once
the article had been filed. “We have to go searching through stuff.
It takes a long time to do that.” Hours later, just prior to publication,
he provided an answer to a question I first asked in November of last
year. “SOF [Special Operations forces] were deployed to 134 countries”
during fiscal year 2013, Bockholt explained in an email.
Globalized Special Ops
Last year, Special Operations Command chief Admiral
William McRaven explained his vision for special ops globalization. In a
statement to the House Armed Services Committee, he said:
“USSOCOM is enhancing its global network of SOF to
support our interagency and international partners in order to gain expanded
situational awareness of emerging threats and opportunities. The network
enables small, persistent presence in critical locations, and facilitates
engagement where necessary or appropriate...”
While that “presence” may be small, the reach and
influence of those Special Operations forces are another matter. The 12%
jump in national deployments -- from 120 to 134 -- during McRaven’s tenure
reflects his desire to put boots on the ground just about everywhere on Earth.
SOCOM will not name the nations involved, citing host nation
sensitivities and the safety of American personnel, but the deployments we do
know about shed at least some light on the full range of missions being carried
out by America
Last April and May, for
instance, Special Ops personnel took part in training exercises in
In October, elite U.S. troops carried out commando
raids in Libya and Somalia,kidnapping a
terror suspect in the former nation while SEALs killed at least one militant in
the latter before being driven off under
fire. In November, Special Ops troops conducted humanitarian operations
in the Philippines England and Navy SEALs were wounded whileundertaking an
evacuation mission in South Sudan . Green
Berets then rang in the new year with a January 1st combat mission alongside
elite Afghan troops in Bahlozi village in Kandahar
Deployments in 134 countries, however, turn out not to be
expansive enough for SOCOM. In November 2013, the command announced that it was
seeking to identify industry partners who could, under SOCOM’s Trans Regional
Web Initiative, potentially “develop new websites tailored to foreign
audiences.” These would join an existing global network of 10 propaganda
websites, run by various combatant commands and made to look like legitimate
news outlets, including CentralAsiaOnline.com, Sabahi which
targets the Horn of Africa; an effort aimed at the Middle East known as
Al-Shorfa.com; and another targeting Latin America
called Infosurhoy.com.
SOCOM’s push into cyberspace is mirrored by a concerted
effort of the command to embed itself ever more deeply inside the
Beltway. “I have folks in every agency here in Washington ,
D.C. -- from the CIA, to the FBI, to the
National Security Agency, to the National Geospatial Agency, to the Defense
Intelligence Agency,” SOCOM chief Admiral McRaven said during a panel
discussion at Washington ’s Wilson Center
134 Chances for Blowback
Although elected in 2008 by many who saw him as an antiwar candidate, President Obama has proved to be a
decidedly hawkish commander-in-chief whose policies have already produced
notable instances of what in CIA trade-speak has long been called blowback. While the Obama administration oversaw a U.S.
withdrawal from Iraq (negotiated by
his predecessor), as well as a drawdown of U.S.
forces in Afghanistan (after a major military surge in
that country), the president has presided over a ramping up of the U.S.
military presence in Africa,
areinvigoration of efforts in Latin America, and tough talk about a rebalancing or “pivot to Asia” (even if it has amounted to little as of
yet).
The White House has also overseen an exponential
expansion of America U.S.
In recent years, however, the unintended consequences of U.S. America ’s
“mission accomplished” moment, seven years after its much
vaunted surge, the Iraq
that America
A more recent U.S. military intervention to aid the
ouster of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi helped send neighboring Mali, a
U.S.-supported bulwark against regional terrorism, into a downward spiral, saw
a coup there carried out by a U.S.-trained officer, ultimately led to a bloody
terror attack on an Algerian gas plant, and helped to unleash nothing short of a terror diaspora in the region.
And today South Sudan -- a nation the U.S. shepherded
into being, has supportedeconomically and militarily (despite
its reliance on child soldiers), and has used as ahush-hush base for
Special Operations forces -- is being torn apart by violence and sliding toward civil war.
The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. Boston University
Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to
produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences.
New Yorkers willremember well
the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militantsagainst the Soviet Union in
Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11. Strangely enough, those at the other
primary attack site that day, the Pentagon, seem not to have learned the obvious lessons
from this lethal blowback. Even today in Afghanistan and Pakistan, more
than 12 years after the U.S. invaded the former and almost 10 years after
it began conducting covert attacks in
the latter, the U.S. is still dealing with that Cold War-era fallout: with, for
instance, CIA drones conducting missile strikes against
an organization (the Haqqani network) that, in the 1980s, the Agency supplied with missiles.
Without a clear picture of where the military’s covert
forces are operating and what they are doing, Americans may not even recognize
the consequences of and blowback from our expanding secret wars as they wash
over the world. But if history is any guide, they will be felt -- from
Southwest Asia to the Mahgreb, the Middle East to Central Africa, and, perhaps
eventually, in the United States as well.
In his blueprint for the future, SOCOM
2020, Admiral McRaven has touted the globalization of U.S.
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The big picture is what drives me.... I’m a visual learner. Once I get a feel for what is going on I can then find the rest of the pieces filling in the puzzle on the wall. So here are a few more sharings of some good honest thinking by some stalwarts in the peace movement.
The big picture is what drives me.... I’m a visual learner. Once I get a feel for what is going on I can then find the rest of the pieces filling in the puzzle on the wall. So here are a few more sharings of some good honest thinking by some stalwarts in the peace movement.
I suspect this entire Ukraine US warships
into the Black Sea just before the Olympics
under a patently absurd pretext. In other words, what we are seeing unfold here
is a US/NATO War Plan. They instigated the fascist coup against Yanukovich.
They anticipated that Putin would then respond by taking over Crimea .
I suspect the US/NATO/EU response will be to introduce military forces into
Western Ukraine and Kiev and thus make Ukraine Ukraine
- Francis A. Boyle,Champaign
- Francis A. Boyle,
Last summer when I went to a conference in the
If Ukraine
is on the brink of a catastrophe, it is mainly because the present regime in Kiev
His opponents not only betrayed a democratic principle. They subverted a ‘Peace Deal’ signed between them and Yanukovich on 21 February 2014 in which the latter had agreed to form a national unity government within 10 days that would include opposition representatives; reinstate the 2004 Constitution; relinquish control over Ukraine’s security services; and hold presidential and parliamentary elections by December 2014. According to the Deal, endorsed byGermany , France
and Poland
His co-signatories had no intention of honouring the agreement. Without following procedures, parliament, with the backing of the military, voted immediately to remove Yanukovich and impeach him. The Parliamentary Speaker was elected interim President and after a few days a new regime was installed.
- Dr. Chandra Muzaffar,Malaysia
His opponents not only betrayed a democratic principle. They subverted a ‘Peace Deal’ signed between them and Yanukovich on 21 February 2014 in which the latter had agreed to form a national unity government within 10 days that would include opposition representatives; reinstate the 2004 Constitution; relinquish control over Ukraine’s security services; and hold presidential and parliamentary elections by December 2014. According to the Deal, endorsed by
His co-signatories had no intention of honouring the agreement. Without following procedures, parliament, with the backing of the military, voted immediately to remove Yanukovich and impeach him. The Parliamentary Speaker was elected interim President and after a few days a new regime was installed.
- Dr. Chandra Muzaffar,
A key bit that must continually be inserted into discussions about
When the Berlin Wall fell in December of 1991 the
If you are
Admittedly this is a grab by the oil-i-garchs for total global control. The people are the pawns, easily cast aside when need be. The way I figure it, my job is to keep learning about all this and sharing it with others. Don’t fear the anti-commie BS that is used to put people back ‘into their place’. I don’t like people telling me what I can do or say…. I heard enough of that stuff while in the Air Force during the Vietnam War.
Help illuminate the picture on the wall for more to see. We've all, worldwide, got to create a unified demand to shut the capitalist war system down. The corporate fascists have taken over. It's the high-tech version of feudalism.
Stop taking the blue pill.
Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
globalnet@mindspring.com
www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ (blog)
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
globalnet@mindspring.com
www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ (blog)
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Jimmy Carter: "America
As the No. 1 Warmonger"
David Daley, Salon, Reader Supported News, April 10, 2014
Daley writes: "The rest of the world, almost unanimously, looks atAmerica
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the relationship between universities, militarism, and neoliberalism
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broader politics of militarism, racism, nationalism, and neoliberalism that
define the contemporary imperial state. Based on multidisciplinary research,
autobiographical accounts, and even performance scripts, this urgent analysis
offers sobering insights into varied manifestations of “the imperial
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Contents #10
Herman:
the Troops, the Criminals, Lawlessness, Propaganda System, Bush and
Obama
Kutler:
McGovern’ Critique of US Foreign Policy
2 on Romney and Obama
US Intervention in Mali 2012
Militarizing Arctic North: Sweden and Finland
Empire and Social Sciences
Early Years, 2 Books
McCoy and Scarano, Colonial
LaFebre, Late 19th Century
Alternative History: Zinn and Stone/Kuznick
Dick: The Story of the US
at Chrystal Bridges
Contents #11
Petition for Peace
Reich, Sexual Assault in the Air Force
General Smedley Butler
Blum, America’s
Deadliest Export
Boggs, The Crimes of
Empire
Scahill, Dirty Wars
Hedges on Manning
Hedges, Murdering Leaders
Sirota, Blowback, Backlash, Retaliation
Assange, Electronic Control
Contents #12
Contents #12
Recent
Newsletters
Kuzmarov: Control and Police Training
Dirty Wars Film
Quigley’s
The Ruses for War Republished Updated
US
Navy , US
Kirschner,
Historical Open: 128 US
Contents #13 Sept. 3, 2013
Drake,
Robert La Follette Anti-Imperialist
Bennis,
Challenging Empire
Chomsky,
Imperial USA
Davies,
How Totalitarian Societies Produce Wars
Vonnegut,
War the Worst Addiction of All
Cockburn,
Ferocity and Failure of US Sanctions
Contents #14
RESISTANCE TO US
EMPIRE
Davies, Most
Expensive and Powerful Military Does Not Bring Safety
Blum: Empire, Communism and Other Threats, Vital US
Interests, Domino Dogma
Gurman,
Counterinsurgency from Malaya and Vietnam
to Iraq and Afghanistan
Turse, Special
Operations Command, Secret Military
Monbiot, Lawless Double
Standards of US Exceptionalism
Hart, US Broadcast
Media Supported Attack on Syria
RESISTANCE TO US
EMPIRE
Dick, Informed Citizens versus US Perpetual War,
Resistance II
Tomgram/Hiro,
Global Resistance to the Empire
Articles Via
Historians Against War
Dick, Books on US Empire
Contacts for Arkansas Congressional
Representatives
Contents to Earlier
Empire Newsletters
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