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Why Is the U.S. Destabilizing One Country After Another?

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“[..] Sixth, the military-industrial complex and its lobbies on the Hill thrive on the profits, the work of war, the advancements, and the demand for their services that instability brings. The DHS thrives on an atmopshere of war and fear. Members of Congress thrive on making speeches about promoting rights and democracy, even though they are promoting war, instability, refugees and death. The State Department appears to have abandoned diplomacy and become subservient to the neocon influences. Seventh, the U.S. has a ready-made pro-war interest group in many churches. [..]”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/why-is-the-u-s-destabilizing-one-country-after-another/

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How Empires Fall

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“Rome didn’t fall so much as erode away, its many strengths squandered on in-fighting, mismanagement and personal aggrandizement/corruption. More telling for the present is Goldsworthy’s identification of expansive, sclerotic bureaucracies that lost sight of their purpose. The top leadership abandoned the pursuit of the common good for personal gain, wealth and power. This rot at the top soon spread down the chain of command to infect and corrupt the entire institutional culture.  As the empire shrank and lost tax revenues, the Imperial bureaucracies continued growing, much as parasites attach themselves to a weakened host.”

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.de/2013/04/how-empires-fall.html

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Should We Celebrate the American Revolution?

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“Conservatives who cherish the Fourth of July while cheering today’s wars have a high tolerance for cognitive dissonance. The American Revolution was, at best, a revolt against empire. The taxes at issue were being used to finance Britain’s national security state. The colonial rebels didn’t ‘support the troops’ – they resented them. And they resented Britain’s status as the hypocritical world power, which closely resembled the modern United States – an empire claiming the mantle of liberty while smashing its colonial subjects. Today’s conservatives would have likely been partisans of King George. Independence would mean Washington, DC, releasing control of its colonies worldwide.”

http://c4ss.org/content/20196

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No, thanks: Stop saying “support the troops”

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“To support the troops is to accept a particular idea of the American role in the world. It also forces us to pretend that it is a country legitimately interested in equality for all its citizens. In reality, the troops are not actually recipients of any meaningful support. That honor is reserved for the government and its elite constituencies. ‘Support our troops’ entails a tacit injunction that we also support whatever politicians in any given moment deem the national interest. If we understand that ‘the national interest’ is but a metonym for the aspirations of the ruling class, then supporting the troops becomes a counterintuitive, even harmful, gesture.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/25/no_thanks_i_wont_support_the_troops/

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How to Fix the Army: Sack All the Generals

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“Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, a seasoned Army colonel who has already earned a reputation for being something of a whistleblower by tracking leadership failures from the field in Afghanistan, describes a system where underserving leaders ‘received prestigious medals, promotions to higher ranks, and plum follow-on jobs; others retired and went to work for defense contractors, often with companies that had profited from the failed acquisition effort.’ Davis worries about the decade of the Army and Marine Corps obsessed with counterinsurgency and small-unit warfare while a ‘a new generation of Chinese military leaders has deepened its understanding and application of conventional warfare.'”

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/08/overthrow-the-generals/he

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Burning Up the West: Feds, Greens Cause Catastrophic Fires

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“Wildfires occur naturally and have always been a part of the seasonal cycle in the West, but the size and intensity of the fires have dramatically increased in recent years due, in large measure, to the gross mismanagement of the national forests by the U.S. Forest Service and the incessant lawsuits of radical environmentalists that have thwarted all reasonable attempts at proper forest management. The unconscionable destruction of our vast forests, watersheds, and wildlife habitat is the inevitable result of policies and practices imposed by federal politicians and bureaucrats, in tandem with the obstructionist programs of extreme environmental activists.”

http://thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/16396-burning-up-the-west-feds-greens-cause-catastrophic-fires

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If Chris Kyle Had Been a Muslim, We’d Call him an Extremist

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“Imagine: A young Muslim from the Islamic world joins his country’s armed forces to fight an aggressive war against an overwhelmingly Christian nation. He gains accolades for his work as a sniper, executing his job with ruthless efficiency and little remorse. He admits to viewing the war he is fighting through the prism of religion. He gets a tattoo on his arm declaring that he embraces the concept of holy war. When parliamentarians in his own country question the conduct or course of the war, he states, ‘How would they know? They’ve never even been in a combat situation.’ That he became the author of a bestselling book, and served as a symbol of strength used by politicians.”

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113334/if-chris-kyle-had-been-muslim-wed-call-him-extremist

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Our Moral Crisis

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“It seems official, the United States is a permanent wartime state. Senior Obama Administration officials have stated that the War on Terror, in its ‘limitless form,’ will carry on for another decade, possibly two. Given our role in the world, as an economic and military super-power, and given the economic, social and environmental crisis we see the world in, we must no longer deny that US foreign policy is a great agent of repression. We are a global threat to peace, security, liberty and the environment. Violence has become our foreign policy – it is the status quo. Perhaps what is most disturbing is the support the public lauds on politicians who support aggressive foreign policy.”

http://c4ss.org/content/19079

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Obama in crossfire as battle for control of the Fed heats up

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“At stake is the chairmanship of an organization whose global influence has grown ever larger in recent years. The impact of the Fed’s policies can be seen everywhere. On top of its global role, the Fed has beefed up its activities as regulator in the US. Whoever gets the job will be taking over a position more powerful than the one Bernanke inherited when he was appointed in 2006.  Obama said recently that the appointment ‘is definitely one of the most important economic decisions I will make in the remainder of my presidency. The Federal Reserve chairman is not just one of the most important economic policymakers in America. He or she is one of the most important policymakers in the world.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/25/obama-in-crossfire-as-battle-for-control-of-the-fed-heats-up/

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Genocide: Worse Than War [2010]

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“Watch Daniel Goldhagen’s ground-breaking documentary focused on the worldwide phenomenon of genocide, which premiered on PBS on April 14, 2010. ‘By the most fundamental measure — the number of people killed — the perpetrators of mass murder since the beginning of the twentieth century have taken the lives of more people than have died in military conflict. So genocide is worse than war,’ reiterates Goldhagen. ‘This is a little-known fact that should be a central focus of international politics, because once you know it, the world, international politics, and what we need to do all begin to look substantially different from how they are typically conceived.'”

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