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Posted by Joan Russow
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Thursday, 24 October 2013 06:49 |
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By Andrew J. Bacevich
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175764/
The abiding defect of U.S. foreign policy? It’s isolationism, my friend. Purporting to steer clear of war, isolationism fosters it. Isolationism impedes the spread of democracy. It inhibits trade and therefore prosperity. It allows evildoers to get away with murder. Isolationists prevent the United States from accomplishing its providentially assigned global mission. Wean the American people from their persistent inclination to look inward and who knows what wonders our leaders will accomplish.
The United States has been at war for well over a decade now, with U.S. attacks and excursions in distant lands having become as commonplace as floods and forest fires. Yet during the recent debate over Syria, the absence of popular enthusiasm for opening up another active front evoked expressions of concern in Washington that Americans were once more turning their backs on the world.
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Posted by Joan Russow
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Tuesday, 13 August 2013 05:46 |
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By Tom Engelhardt
[The following excerpt, from Tom Engelhardt’s book, The End of Victory Culture, is posted with permission from the University of Massachusetts Press.] http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175735/
1. The First Coming of G.I. Joe
It was 1964, and in Vietnam thousands of American “advisers” were already offering up their know-how from helicopter seats or gun sights. The United States was just a year short of sending its first large contingent of ground troops there, adolescents who would enter the battle zone dreaming of John Wayne and thinking of enemy-controlled territory as “Indian country.” Meanwhile, in that inaugural year of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, a new generation of children began to experience the American war story via the most popular toy warrior ever created.
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Sunday, 21 March 2010 14:03 |
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For the first time in our nation's history, Congress has passed comprehensive health care reform. America waited a hundred years and fought for decades to reach this moment. Tonight, thanks to you, we are finally here. |
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Tuesday, 01 December 2009 08:17 |
The Carper Index
PEJ - News - Anyone Care about Wall Street? They have a new index called the Carper's Index. If nothing else it makes interesting reading. Here is where the money went. www.PEJ.org |
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Friday, 10 July 2009 15:04 |
U.S. cattle being fed chicken manure?PEJ News - Grant Robertson - It seems that when the law was changed in the U.S. to ban the use of rendered animal parts i n animal feed, cattle producers looked around for other low cost feeds and that |
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 22:36 |
Making Sense of a U.S. Owned General Motors
PEJ News - Shamus Cooke, U.S. Editor - Now that the United States owns General Motors, many are asking, |
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Thursday, 22 January 2009 12:23 |
Barack Obama's Inauguration Moment as 44th President PEJ News - Siamregn Derese - January 20, 2009 - Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th President of the USA, is a historic moment in the whole wide world. The inauguration moment mean so me that Barack Obama, joined by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, is going to make a historic move to spark the torch of 'Peace and Prosperity in the entire world' and put the USA in its rightful position of leadership for world economic growth and the New World Economic Order. Indeed, Barack Obama |
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Saturday, 20 December 2008 03:41 |
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On The Road to Moronity
PEJ News - Rand Clifford - The elite power configuration that controls America |
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 14:00 |
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End of the Road to Moronity
PEJ News - Rand Clifford - Is Moronity a place, or a condition? Since America is our focus, and since America seems a fine example of something at once both place and condition, let |
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 10:27 |
McCain Strategy
PEJ News - "If you can't dazzle em with brilliance then baffle em with bull sh_t". Smear and if that doesn't work then tell an even bigger lie and smear, smear, smear. If that doesn't work use the most outrageous lie you can think of. Throw BS as fast as you can in hope that something will stick. This is the kind of attack you get from monsters that have zero morals......Dear John....I hope this sticks. You deserve every bit of it. www.PEJ.org |
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