I ran across this very interesting interview with John Perkins, the author of the New York Times Best Seller, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, on mediachannel.org. This book has been on my “To Read” list for some time now; I’ve got a lot of books on that list (so little time to read complete books […]
Tag Archive for 'empire'
Technorati Tags: Confessions of an Economic Hitman, democracy, economic warfare, Empire, IMF, imperialism, International Monetary Fund, John Perkins, Ron Susskind, Thomas Jefferson, traitors, treason, World Bank
I stumbled across this new track by Randy Newman on iTunes, and I think it’s a perfect followup to the previous (much more serious and ominous) article by Chalmers Johnson, now that we’re on the subject of Empire. (See below.)
Randy […]
Technorati Tags: american empire, Empire, mark twain, music, Randy Newman
By Chalmers Johnson
[Reblogged from TomDispatch]
History tells us that one of the most unstable political combinations is a country—like the United States today—that tries to be a domestic democracy and a foreign imperialist. Why this is so can be a very abstract subject. Perhaps the best way to offer my thoughts on this is to say […]
Technorati Tags: afghanistan, american empire, blowback, british imperialism, budget deficit, bush, chalmers johnson, cheney, defense appropriation, defense budget, deficit, Empire, imperial presidency, imperialism, iraq, Iraq war, national debt limit, trade deficit