By Doug Miller “Oh the Protestants hate the Catholicsand the Catholics hate the Protestantsand the Hindus hate the Muslimsand everybody hates the Jews; But during National Brotherhood Week…” And for those who are not familiar with Dr. Lehrer’s sardonic satire, the full version of this song deriding one of the patronising habits of the LBJ-style […]
Posts Tagged ‘imperial’
How ‘Office of the US President’ developed ‘Imperial Power’: TV Report
[embedded content] Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK99dRpL9WQ Description: Television report on the historical development of the US president’s powers, into what is now referred to by some as the ‘Imperial Presidency’. Source: Al Mayadeen TV (YouTube)Date: November 27, 2020(Important Note: Please help us keep producing independent translations for you by contributing as little as $1/month here: https://www.patreon.com/MiddleEastObserver?fan_landing=true) Transcript: TV Report: When the […]
US Imperial Audacity
By Stephen Lendman Source From long ago use of smallpox infected blankets against Native Americans to the present day, the US used and continues to use chemical, biological, radiological, and other banned weapons in all its preemptive wars against invented enemies. More on this below. Ignoring how imperial USA operates today, Trump regime assistant secretary […]
Russia vs. US Imperial Aims in Syria
By Stephen Lendman Global Research, October 01, 2020 Former NATO commander General Wesley Clark earlier explained that the US underwent a post-9/11 transformation. A “policy coup” occurred. With no public debate or acknowledgement, hardliners in Washington usurped power. Days after 9/11, Clark learned from Pentagon commanders that plans were made to “destroy the governments in seven countries.” Besides […]
Imperial hubris takes its toll: US Navy finds most new officers struggle with handling ship collisions
Nearly 85 percent of junior officers in the United States Navy present “some concern” or “significant concern” with regard to their ability to handle a crisis involving a collision with another ship, according to a recent internal assessment that reviewed 164 officers. Following the lethal collisions in 2017 between commercial ships and US naval […]
Geography Of Imperial Aggression
I recall walking the halls of the United Nations and being told by concerned diplomats from the Global South that the wrath of the United States was not going to be slaked in the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2002, US President George W. Bush announced that three countries belonged on his Axis of […]
Imperial Road To Conquest: Peace And Disarmament Agreements
Imperial Road To Conquest: Peace And Disarmament Agreements Above Photo: Alan Denney/Flickr May 01, 2018 “Information Clearing House” – In recent years US imperial strategy has sought to lessen the cost of defeating and overthrowing independent countries. The means and method are fairly straight forward. World-wide propaganda campaigns which demonize the adversary; the enlistment and collaboration of European […]
John Pilger On Mainstream Media And Imperial Power
John Pilger On Mainstream Media And Imperial Power Above Photo: John Pilger, Australian journalist and documentary maker, arrives to meet WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy, in London, June 22, 2012. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis) Emmy award-winning filmmaker John Pilger is among the most important political filmmakers of the 20th and 21st century. From Vietnam to Palestine […]
John Pilger on the Mainstream Media and Imperial Power
Emmy award-winning filmmaker John Pilger is among the most important political filmmakers of the 20th and 21st century. From Vietnam to Palestine to atomic war, Pilger’s work has been on the cutting edge, and his stinging critique of western media has always be revelatory. And, no doubt, his biting analysis is more relevant and important […]
Bolivian Military Officers Graduate From Anti-Imperial School
Bolivian Military Officers Graduate From Anti-Imperial School Above: More than 400 officers graduated from Bolivia’s military academy, the School of Anti-Imperialism, established in 2016. | Photo: ABI Bolivian President Evo Morales has attended the graduation of 407 military officers from the School of Anti-Imperialism in Bolivia, highlighting the importance of the Bolivian Armed Forces in defending sovereignty. […]
Washington’s new security strategy has ‘imperial nature’ – Kremlin
“Looking through [the strategy], particularly those parts concerning our country, one can see the imperial nature of the document, as well as persistent unwillingness to abandon the idea of a unipolar world and accept a multipolar world,” he said. Peskov stressed that Moscow strongly disagrees with Washington’s stance towards Russia expressed in the document, which […]
US Gov’t War on RT: Imperial Media ‘Truth’ Monopoly Threatens Press Diversity
TAKING THE MICKEY: RT UK billboard campaign on London Underground pokes fun at US-led Russiagate campaign of hysteria. Philip GiraldiUnz Review Somehow everything keeps coming back around to Russia. In one of its recent initiatives, the Justice Department (DOJ) appears to be attacking the First Amendment as part of the apparent bipartisan program to make […]
US Serial Imperial Aggressions have Pushed ‘World Peace’ to Brink of Extinction
Professor Francis Boyle It is the Unlimited Imperialists along the line of Alexander, Rome, Napoleon and Hitler who are now in charge of conducting American foreign policy… Historically this latest eruption of American militarism at the start of the 21st Century is akin to that of America opening the 20th Century by means of the […]
Continuity as Change: President Trump, His Predecessors & the Primacy of U.S. Imperial Policy
Dr Can Erimtan21st Century Wire Donald Trump has been in charge of the U.S. for many months now and by now the novelty is beginning to somewhat wear off… one tweet at the time. Though in reality, Trump is still as unaccustomed to the job now as he was at the very beginning of his […]
The Illegal Entity of Rojava and Imperial “Divide and Rule” Tactics
Rojava supporters may point out that YPG fighters worked with Syria and Russia which allowed the final victory in the liberation of Aleppo last year and note with pride the statement of Hediye Yusuf, the co-chair of Rojava’s Constituent Assembly, who said that they seek autonomy, but do not want Syria to be destroyed. However, […]
America’s Imperial War Drive and the Contemporary African Crisis
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Amazon Wants Drone Docking Stations
Amazon Wants Drone Docking Stations July 19th, 2016 Via: CNBC: Amazon has been awarded a patent for “docking stations” for its delivery drones that will be built on tall structures such as lampposts or churches and allow the unmanned machines to recharge and pick […]