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Ted McLaughlin : Fingering Corruption in Afghanistan
President Hamid Karzai votes: Supposedly indelible ink used to mark voters’ fingers in the Afghanistan election to prevent fraud may have been easily washed off. Photo by Reuters.Ink hardly dry on electoral farce:American opinion and the Afghan fiascoBy Ted McLaughlin … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Corruption, Foreign Policy, Imperialism, Public Opinion, Ted McLaughlin
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Harry Targ : The Evolving Techniques of Empire
Image from ccsd.org.Techniques of empire:What is new and what is the same old stuff? By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / August 31, 2010 Empires past Nations, tribes, armed members of messianic religions from time to time have engaged … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Targ, Imperialism, U.S. Military, Warfare, World History
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Harvey Wasserman : Honor Dr. King and Bring the Troops Home Now
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with President Lyndon Johnson in the White House, March 1966. Photo by Yoichi Okamoto / Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.Honor Dr. Martin Luther King: Bring the troops home NOW! By Harvey Wasserman / The … Continue reading
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver : ‘Crossing the Rubicon’ at the Gulf of Tonkin
E. J. Fitzgerald’s painting (1980) illustrates the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. U.S. Navy Historical Center / Wikimedia Commons.Crossing the Rubicon:The Tonkin Gulf Incident It’s an event I can never forget, because I was there, a young sailor working in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Gulf of Tonkin, Imperialism, Military, Thomas Cleaver, Vietnam
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Howard Zinn on the 4th of July : Put Away the Flags
Image by Darren Wamboldt / Shutterstock / Journal of the American Enterprise Institute.The self-deception of exceptionalism:Put away the flags By Howard Zinn / July 3, 2010 [People’s historian Howard Zinn died on January 7, 2010. This piece was originally distributed … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th of July, American Exceptionalism, American History, Howard Zinn, Imperialism, Iraq Occupation, Nationalism
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Robert Jensen : The Vultures and the Hawks
And the empire was off and running: The first atomic bomb (“Little Boy”) on trailer cradle in pit. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.Think outside the bomb:No nukes? No empire. By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / June 21, 2010 [A … Continue reading
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Tagged Foreign Policy, Imperialism, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, Robert Jensen, U.S. Military
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Korea : ‘Our Forgotten War’ (And our Annual Fantasy)
The Korean War “became a war against an entire nation.” Photo from the National Archives and Records Administration.Seeds of an imperial policy:‘Our Forgotten War’ in Korea By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / June 21, 2010 “If we stand … Continue reading
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Tagged Communism, Harry Targ, Imperialism, Korean War, U.S. Foreign Policy, World History
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Bob Feldman : A People’s History of Afghanistan / 4
British Intelligence agent T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) came to Afghanistan in 1928, and virtually directed anti-government activities. Image from Jordan Jubilee.Part 4: 1924-1933A People’s History of Afghanistan By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / May 2, 2010 [If … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Bob Feldman, Great Britain, Imperialism, South Asia, T.E. Lawrence, World History
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Bob Feldman : A People’s History of Afghanistan / 3
Jews in Afghanistan became increasingly pauperized because of government monopolization of foreign trade, and all but 3-4,000 had emigrated by the 1930’s. Image from The Embassy of Afghanistan.Part 3: 1901-1924A People’s History of Afghanistan By Bob Feldman / The Rag … Continue reading
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Bob Feldman : A People’s History of Afghanistan / 2
Formal photograph taken in Gandamak, Afghanistan, in May 1879. Seated from left to right: British officers Mr. Jenkyns and Major Cavagnari, Amir Yaqub Khan (in the center), General Daoud Shah, and Habibullah Mustafi. Photo by John Burke (1843 – 1900) … Continue reading
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Larry Ray : Killing and Dying in Vietraqistan
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Vietraqistan:One, two, three, four…What are we fighting for? By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / April 26, 2010 “We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Civilian Fatalities, Imperialism, Iraq Occupation, Larry Ray, Military, U.S. Foreign Policy, Vietnam
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