Tag: US empire

Joachim Hagopian, It’s Time to Stop “Supporting Our Troops”: Thirty Million People Killed by U.S. Since the End of World War II

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Joachim Hagopian On this Memorial Day weekend when Americans are supposed to reflect back to honor our dead soldiers that have fought for our freedoms over the centuries, I’m reminded of an article I wrote for Global Research nearly 10 years ago. I came to realize that unconditionally “supporting our troops” has been a big part of the problem why America has been at war somewhere in this world 93% of our quarter millennium as a nation. As the most warring nation on earth, supporting our troops might not be such an…

Rob Urie, Iran, Venezuela and the Throes of Empire

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by ROB URIE With the Trump administration threatening war against Iran and Venezuela, the question of how the U.S. was brought to this point needs to be considered. To argue that current circumstances are particular to this administration is to overlook U.S. history vis-a-vis both Iran and Venezuela and that between them they possess a material proportion of the world’s proved oil reserves (graph below). In 2019, the pretense that local provocations explain anything beyond domestic political posturing is absurd. However, domestic political considerations do explain threats of war to a…