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Tag Archives: military
Imperial Failure
The 2022 invasion of Ukraine should not have been a surprise. Not to anyone. It was, in large part, a result of the imperial imperative; the desire of an egotistical leader with dictatorial powers to reconstruct the global prestige and … Continue reading
Posted in Sociocultural
Tagged expansion, Imperial, invasion, military, occupation, propaganda, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, war
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Homeland Coup
In the United States we often comment unfavorably on the failures of democratic rule in other countries, the various insurrections and coups and corrupt elections, or the simple failures to transfer power from a losing administration to the winners of … Continue reading
The Lost War
It is September of 2021 and the United States has completed a final withdrawal from Afghanistan after spending almost twenty years attempting to create a new Afghani national government. The conflict had cost the lives of more than 3,500 soldiers … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged 9-11, 9/11, Afghanistan, foreign policy, Kabul, military, Taliban, Vietnam, war, War on terror, withdraw
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Insurrelection Solved
In my previous month’s offering I stated that the United States, in the 2020 presidential election, dodged a bullet. That is to say, somewhat less briefly, that we avoided an attempted insurrection, one that was based on little more than … Continue reading
Macho Excess
In our culture we tend to idolize macho—probably too much. There have been some discussions recently about what some have called “toxic masculinity,” the specific attitudes and behaviors that are associated with the male image and that we now recognize … Continue reading
What Assault?
How did we get here? Once again, a mass shooting has reactivated what passes for a gun debate in the United States. This time the event occurred at a high school in Florida and seventeen people died, but those details, … Continue reading
Police Modern
Baltimore: Freddie Gray. Ferguson: Michael Brown. Cleveland: Tamir Rice. New York: Eric Garner. The paired names of cities and victims of police violence keep mounting; these four only the most publicized in the past year. Several reports have noted that … Continue reading
Shut It Down!
Here we go again. It is clear now, so clear that even pundits on CNN have recognized it, that President Obama made a serious mistake two years ago. More on that later. We have now seen the shutdown of the … Continue reading
Foreign Intelligence
It is possible that some of the statements in my previous entry on this blog (The Snowden Caper) may have sounded a bit paranoid. I would argue that the interpretations in my argument were, in fact, entirely realistic. Unfortunately, the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged AUMF, collateral damage, constitution, FISA, foreign policy, government, habeas, Honduras, human rights, intelligence, military, power, rendition, terror, Venezuela, war
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The Snowden Caper
In recent weeks the media and members of Congress have erupted with shock, surprise, and outrage about the “new” ways in which our government has been violating the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. There was the “scandal” involving tracking the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged congress, constitution, Eisenhower, email, intelligence, media, military, NSA, Obama, PATRIOT Act, phone calls, privacy, secrecy, Snowden, spy, terror
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