Occupation: Author Birth: August 6, 1931 Death: November 20, 2010
As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to comb….
History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American republic ….
History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless..
A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Repub….
Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows..
Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep price-individua l….
None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of 600,000 men betwe….
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It mak….
The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profita….
The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended conseq….
Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the educat….
The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire..
When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it..