Tag Archives: Imperial Hubris

Andrew Bacevich: How We Got Here

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“To focus on the man himself rather than on the circumstances that produced him is to miss the significance of what has occurred.  Note, for example, that his mandate is almost entirely negative.  It centers on rejection: of globalization, of counterproductive military meddling, and of the post-Cold War cultural project.  Yet neither Trump nor any of his surrogates has offered a coherent alternative to the triad of themes providing the through line for the last quarter-century of American history.”

Read more: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176228/tomgram%3A_andrew_bacevich%2C_how_we_got_here/

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Jacob Hornberger: Ditch the CIA, the Pentagon, and the NSA

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“The fight between Donald Trump and the CIA over the supposed Russian hacking scandal has at least two positive benefits: One, it helps to remind us what the conversion of the federal government to a national-security state has done to us here at home. Two, it enables us to ask an important fundamental question: Given that the Cold War ended decades ago, why don’t we just ditch the entire national security establishment and restore a constitutional republic to our land?“

Read more: http://www.fff.org/2017/01/06/ditch-cia-pentagon-nsa/

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US Interfered In Foreign Presidential Elections At Least 81 Times In 54 Years

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“Methods included the dissemination of misinformation or propaganda, training one side in campaigning techniques, making threats against a particular candidate, threatening to withdraw foreign aid, and bank-rolling a particular candidate among others. In 59% of the cases examined, the candidate that had received US ‘assistance’ emerged victorious, though Levin estimated that the average effect of ‘partisan electoral interventions’ only swayed the vote by an average of 3%.”

Read more: http://www.trueactivist.com/us-interfered-in-foreign-presidential-elections-at-least-81-times-in-54-years/

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US advisers urge Trump to refinance US debt by issuing 100-year bonds

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“Issuing longer-dated Treasuries is … 1. A sign you’re broke.  2. A sign you’re desperate for credit.  3. A sign of great weakness to your foreign trade and credit sources.  4. A major Achilles’ heel in our economy.  5. A major mistake, if implemented.”

Read more: http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/more-on-crashing-sovereign-debt-markets-83770

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US Gifts $38 Billion In Weapons To Israeli State, Even As U.N. Pulls Back

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The U.S. government will transfer $38 billion in “foreign aid” to the accounts of U.S. weapons manufacturers to further arm the Israeli government against the U.S.’s enemies in the Middle East.

At the same time, the UN has enacted a resolution calling on Israel to cease occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, rejecting pressure from incoming U.S. president Donald Trump to instead increase support for the Israeli state’s foreign policy.

Notably, the U.S. government contributes 22% of the UN’s budget, the largest share by far of any member state.

Could anyone be blamed for viewing US foreign policy as symptomatic of madness?

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Three ridiculous ways Congress plans to Keep America Safe Again

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“Another gem is section 1224, which provides authorization to arm Syrian rebels with state-of-the-art weapons from the US military.  I’m not talking about small arms and ammunition. This is the heavy-duty stuff.  Apparently Congress didn’t learn its lesson when a bunch of the weapons they gave to the Iraqi military conspicuously ended up in the hands of ISIS.  Nor did they learn their lesson back in 2010 when it was found that the DEA had completely lost track of the thousands of weapons they supplied to Mexican cartels.  But don’t worry, the law provides plenty of safeguards.”

Read more: https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/three-ridiculous-ways-congress-plans-to-keep-america-safe-again-20610/

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Support our opposition to John Bolton for Assistant Secretary of State

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“John Bolton is one of the arsonists who set the world on fire. He was a proponent of the Iraq war and all the other policies that have inflamed the Middle East.  He continues to endorse those policies, proving that he’s incapable of learning from his mistakes. Even worse…  He’s been an advocate of the old George W. Bush policy that we should never negotiate with anyone unless they first submit to all our demands. This is the negation of diplomacy. It instantly disqualifies Bolton to be the Deputy Secretary of State.  Mr. Bolton should never again hold any government position. I will be watching what you do in this matter.”

https://downsizedc.org/blog/opposition-john-bolton-assist-sec-state

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‘Let it be an arms race’: Donald Trump on nuclear expansion

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“The president-elect Donald Trump has stunned nuclear weapons experts by appearing to call for a renewed arms race on his Twitter feed and in a TV interview.  ‘Let it be an arms race,’ the president in waiting was reported to have told Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe programme, in an early phone call on Friday.  According to Brzezinski he went on to say: ‘We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all.’  The incendiary comment followed a tweet on Thursday in which Trump threatened to preside over a major ramping up of the US nuclear arsenal.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/23/donald-trump-nuclear-weapons-arms-race

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Greek protesters lob petrol bombs in Athens during Obama visit

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“In a separate protest in the northern city of Thessaloniki, protesters burned a U.S. flag.  The visit comes only two days before the anniversary of a bloody 1973 student revolt that helped topple the 1967-1974 military junta which was backed by the U.S. government.  Obama, who will be succeeded in January by Donald Trump, arrived in Greece on Tuesday on his last foreign tour as president of the United States.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-obama-protests-idUSKBN13A2DT

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Radical Islam: Byproduct of U.S. policies dating back to Woodrow Wilson

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“Eventually, the regions created by Sykes-Picot would cease being mandates/colonies. They would become independent nations. But these nations were Frankenstein monsters. They contained unstable mixtures of Arabs, Persians, and Kurds — of Sunni and Shia. This instability led to a long succession of dictators, who held these unnatural states together by brute force. For the remainder of the 20th Century, Britain, France, Soviet Russia, and the United States would back these strongmen to contain angry Muslims in these territories.”

https://downsizedc.org/blog/radical-islam-byproduct-of-us-policies-dating-back-to-woodrow-wilson

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