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A Great Book on the U.S. Empire

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Martin Luther King called the U.S. government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” No one can reasonably deny that he was right. U.S. invasions, occupations, wars of aggression, coups, regime-change operations, inciting and provoking wars and conflicts, sanctions, embargoes, and state-sponsored assassinations have all contributed to what amounts to a massive death toll among foreign citizens. We don’t know the exact number of people the U.S. government has killed in, say, the last 80 years but it certainly has to be in the millions. That’s nothing to scoff at. When it comes to killing, there is no doubt that the U.S. government has made America Number 1. Dr. Danile Ganser. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. The problem is that all too many U.S. mainstream newspapers and writers are loathe to confront this core feature of the U.S. government. In ...

MLK Was Right

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Martin Luther King called the U.S. government the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” No one can legitimately deny that he was right. At the time he made his statement, King was referring to the untold death, suffering, and destruction that the Pentagon and the CIA were unleashing on the people of Vietnam. But after that war ended, the U.S. national-security establishment continued wreaking death, destruction, and suffering across the world. Of course, there was lots of death and destruction throughout the Cold War, including deadly and destructive U.S. coups and assassinations in places like Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Chile, and other nations. There was also Operation Condor, the international South American kidnapping and assassination ring in which the U.S. national-security establishment played a major role. We don’t know exactly how many people were killed in that operation but estimates go as high as 60,000, with many more imprisoned and ...

Henry Kissinger and the Assassination of Gen. René Schneider

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The recent death of former National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger provides an opportunity to revisit one of Kissinger's most infamous acts -- the role he played in the 1970 kidnapping and murder of Gen. René Schneider, the overall commander of the Chilean Armed Forces.  Let me emphasize one thing right off the bat: Schneider was an entirely innocent man. Why, he wasn’t even a communist. Instead, he was simply a man of great integrity who believed that he had a responsibility to support and defend the constitution of Chile. That’s what got him killed. In the 1970 presidential election in Chile, a socialist named Salvador Allende received a plurality of the votes. Since he had not received a majority, the election was thrown into the hands of the Chilean congress. U.S. President Richard Nixon, Kissinger, and CIA officials decided that U.S. “national security” would be threatened by the election of a socialist president in Chile.

America’s Forever Wars Are Not the Problem

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Ever since it became clear that the U.S. invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq were turning into disasters, a common refrain has been to end America’s “forever wars.” Politicians of all political stripes, commentators in the mainstream press, and various conservative and libertarian think tanks and educational foundations have embraced the refrain, thinking that if only America can ...

A Lesson from Niger about America’s National-Security State

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The recent military coup in Niger serves as another reminder to the American people about the danger posed by the national-security state form of governmental structure that America adopted after World War II, ostensibly to prevent a communist takeover of America. Like the United States, Niger is a national-security state, meaning that its government includes a vast, all-powerful ...