I’m almost done with Sorrows of Empire so I will stop deluging the blog with quotes, but I cannot forgo Johnson’s explanation of the mutating monster that Neo-liberalism is. I’d like to reproduce the entire chapter because it is that good, but instead we’ll look at how insidious neo-liberalism
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Dead Wild Roses: The Spoils of War – Anti-American Sentiment in Greece
It seems like so few people understand the context of empire and how it affects American foreign policy. Let’s take a quick peek at Greece and how we treat fellow democracies when it comes to maintaining ‘interests of state’. “In the case of Spain there is some plausibility to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Very Good Start – The Sorrows of Empire
The late Chalmers Johnson knew how to write a pithy introduction: “American leaders now like to compare themselves to imperial Romans, even though they do not know much of Roman history. The main lesson the United States ought to be how the Roman Republic evolved into an empire,
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