The Anti-Empire Report
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Issue #136 — January 20th, 2015
Where has all this Islamic fundamentalism come from in this modern age? Most of it comes—trained, armed, financed, indoctrinated—from Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. During various periods from the 1970s to the present, these four countries had been the most secular, modern, educated, welfare states in the Middle East region. And what had happened to these secular, modern, educated, welfare states? Keep reading →
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Issue #135 — December 19th, 2014
In 1964, the Brazilian military, in a US-designed coup, overthrew a liberal (not more to the left than that) government and proceeded to rule with an iron fist for the next 21 years. In 1979 the military regime passed an amnesty law blocking the prosecution of its members for torture and other crimes. The amnesty still holds. Keep reading →
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Issue #134 — November 19th, 2014
“The United States has photographs that show the Russian artillery moved into Ukraine, American officials say.” Where are these photographs? And how will we know that these are Russian soldiers? And how will we know that the photos were taken in Ukraine? But most importantly, where are the fucking photographs? Keep reading →
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Issue #133 — October 16th, 2014
You can’t believe a word the United States or its mainstream media say about the current conflict involving The Islamic State (ISIS). You can’t believe a word France or the United Kingdom say about ISIS. You can’t believe a word Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, or the United Arab Emirates say about ISIS. Can you say for sure which side of the conflict any of these mideast countries actually finances, arms, or trains, if in fact it’s only one side? Keep reading →
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Issue #132 — September 16th, 2014
Ever since serious protest broke out in Ukraine in February the Western mainstream media, particularly in the United States, has seriously downplayed the fact that the usual suspects—the US/European Union/NATO triumvirate—have been on the same side as the neo-Nazis. In the US it’s been virtually unmentionable. Keep reading →
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Issue #131 — August 11th, 2014
During Cold War One those of us in the American radical left were often placed in the position where we had to defend the Soviet Union because the US government was using that country as a battering ram against us. Now we sometimes have to defend Russia because it may be the last best hope of stopping TETATW (The Empire That Ate The World). Yes, during Cold War One we knew enough about Stalin, the show trials, and the gulags. But we also knew about US foreign policy. Keep reading →
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Issue #130 — July 12th, 2014
Remark made to a pacifist: “If only everyone else would live in the way you recommend, I would gladly live that way as well—but not until everyone else does.” The Pacifist’s reply: “Why then, sir, you would be the last man on earth to do good. I would rather be one of the first.” Keep reading →
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Issue #129 — June 6th, 2014
In his hour-long interview on NBC, May 28, in Moscow, Snowden never expressed, or even implied, any thought—radical or otherwise—about United States foreign policy or the capitalist economic system under which we live, the two standard areas around which many political discussions in the US revolve. In fact, after reading a great deal by and about Snowden this past year, I have no idea what his views actually are about these matters. To be sure, in the context of the NBC interview, capitalism was not at all relevant, but US foreign policy certainly was. Keep reading →
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Issue #128 — May 9th, 2014
So, what do we have here? In Libya, in Syria, and elsewhere the United States has been on the same side as the al-Qaeda types. But not in Ukraine. That’s the good news. The bad news is that in Ukraine the United States is on the same side as the neo-Nazi types, who—taking time off from parading around with their swastika-like symbols and calling for the death of Jews, Russians and Communists—on May 2 burned down a trade-union building in Odessa, killing scores of people and sending hundreds to hospital. Keep reading →
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Issue #127 — April 7th, 2014
Is there anyone out there who still believes that Barack Obama, when he’s speaking about American foreign policy, is capable of being anything like an honest man? In a March 26 talk in Belgium to “European youth”, the president fed his audience one falsehood, half-truth, blatant omission, or hypocrisy after another. If George W. Bush had made some of these statements, Obama supporters would not hesitate to shake their head, roll their eyes, or smirk. Keep reading →
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Issue #126 — March 7th, 2014
When it gets complicated and confusing, when you’re overwhelmed with too much information, changing daily; too many explanations, some contradictory ... try putting it into some kind of context by stepping back and looking at the larger, long-term picture. Keep reading →
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Issue #125 — February 4th, 2014
There are more than 1,400 daily newspapers in the United States. Can you name a single paper, or a single TV network, that was unequivocally opposed to the American wars carried out against Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Panama, Grenada, and Vietnam? Or even opposed to any two of these wars? How about one? In 1968, six years into the Vietnam war, the _Boston Globe_ surveyed the editorial positions of 39 leading US papers concerning the war and found that “none advocated a pull-out”. Keep reading →