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  • Our Imperial Diet (February 9, 2004)
    ...ant-killers, first expelling the Brits, chinking the armor of the greatest empire of them all; then, when the Nazis (never the Germans) thought they could t...
  • Three Strikes For Empire (March 28, 2005)
    ...ed “blowback,” and retaliatory terrorism is the unfortunate price the U.S. Empire will continue to pay for its unnecessary meddling in the affairs of other...
  • Thinkers Launch Anti-Empire Drive (October 27, 2003)
    ...charged that the administration is moving "in a dangerous direction toward empire," an idea that they said has never been embraced by the U.S. public. T...
  • Torture and Civilian Deaths in Three Counterinsurgencies (May 3, 2004)
    ... world. That reputation is now being squandered for the power and glory of Empire. It is unclear how this will ever result in “winning the hearts and min...
  • No Answer (July 21, 2003)
    ...r instance, it plans "International Days of Protest against Occupation and Empire, from Palestine to Iraq to the Philippines to Cuba and Everywhere." But...
  • Ditch the Distraction in Chief (August 16, 2004)
    ...n, even—gasp—capitalism and colonialism. We began to understand modern empire not as the purview of a single nation, no matter how powerful, but a globa...
  • How Teddy Roosevelt Fathered the “Bush Doctrine” (December 10, 2004)
    ...is legacy of Teddy Roosevelt’s imperialism, this internal contradiction of empire, endure? Only time will tell. For much of the twentieth century, except...
  • Restoring the Imperial Presidency (June 17, 2002)
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  • Manifest Destiny Warmed Up? (August 14, 2003)
    ...ust a few short months ago, the talk—and not just in Washington, DC—was of empire, America's that is. Even before the invasion of Iraq, pundits of all strip...
  • Empires As Ages Of Religious Ignorance: George W. Bush's Crusade And American Fundamentalism (November 15, 2004)
    ...eplied: “That’s not the way the world really works anymore. . . . We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying...
  • The Rise of the New Global 'Empire' (October 1, 2001)
    ...Before Sept. 11, Empire, a dense and lengthy analysis of the globalized economy, was alrea...
  • Empire Undressed (November 13, 2004)
    ... and even emboldened to continue on their course of enlarging the American empire, all under the rubric of fighting the global "war on terror". As one of th...
  • Risk for Peace (March 31, 2003)
    ... people chanting "no blood for oil"? It's a start, but the new politics of empire, sprung from terror, demand a more robust response. Like the global jus...
  • The Empire Expands Wider and Still Wider (June 11, 2003)
    ...turies, bear little comparison with what we see today in the United States empire. The present state of globalisation is unprecedented in its integration, i...
  • George Bush's New Imperialism (August 4, 2002)
    ...and French fell like wolves on the rotting carcass of the defeated Ottoman Empire. After promising Arabs independence, Britain betrayed them, dividing the e...
  • Should Israel be Seen As Doomed? (May 12, 2002)
    ...ael now reminds me of the process that led to the collapse of the Japanese empire. The road to the downfall of this great empire began with the Manchuri...
  • War Could Be Economic Suicide (February 27, 2003)
    ... off a foreign threat, then took advantage to convert the republic into an empire. Like Bush, he built up an army. Like Bush, he could not resist the tempta...
  • Coming in 2005: Revolution (January 1, 2005)
    ...n and French revolutions, the eruptions of ‘68, and the fall of the Soviet Empire, the economic and political pressures are building up to boiling point. Tw...
  • Gulf War Troops' Brains 'Damaged' (June 24, 2002)
    ... similar study of British veterans by Goran Jamal, consultant physician at Imperial College School of Medicine, London University, which also revealed brain d...
  • NION: Peace Gets a Chance (October 10, 2002)
    ...nge's Jason Mark says the challenge now is to oppose "the idea of American empire without sounding like 1970s leftists. People don't want to sound off-the-w...
  • The Anniversary of a Neo-Imperial Moment (September 12, 2002)
    ...ed, calling it a prescription for "literally a Pax Americana," an American empire. The details contained in the draft of the Defense Planning Guidance(DP...
  • NION: McDermott Speaks Out Against War (October 7, 2002)
    ...is trying to bring to himself all the power to become an emperor to create Empire America," he said. "If you go along like sheep, that is what will happen."...
  • The Logic of Empire (August 6, 2002)
    ...ill come to interfere directly with the strategic interests of other quasi-imperial states. As it refuses to take responsibility for the consequences of the u...
  • Humpty Dumpty Will Fall (July 26, 2003)
    ...ther in resistance in larger and larger numbers, and one day the top-heavy empire falls over. We don't expect Bush to scurry off in a helicopter. But he...
  • The Struggles of Democracy and Empire (October 10, 2002)
    ...reat conflict to come to terms with what it means to be both democracy and empire. Call it the Athenian problem: how do the guardians of empire ensure suppo...
  • A Kind of Fascism is Replacing Our Democracy (July 18, 2003)
    ...ation's self-understanding. It became commonplace to refer to an "American empire" and to the United States as "the world's only superpower." Instead of...
  • America's Empire of Bases (January 15, 2004)
    ...es on every continent except Antarctica actually constitutes a new form of empire — an empire of bases with its own geography not likely to be taught in any...
  • Fear for the Future of the Republic (November 8, 2004)
    ...bably even worse than the lives lost in vain in the Iraq War is the modern imperial presidency’s ability, using the excessive media coverage accorded to it, t...
  • The Marines' 'How To' Handbook for Empire (April 13, 2004)
    ...rleader publication for the neo-conservative effort to rejuvenate the U.S. Empire’s interventionist agenda around the world, carried a page one article Apri...
  • Anti-War Then, Anti-War Now (October 8, 2002)
    ...r name: "The administration's doctrine is a call for 21st century American imperialism that no other nation can or should accept." The debate in Congress this we...
  • It's Empire Versus Democracy (September 10, 2002)
    ...ive platform. Worse, the real conservative agenda is to create an American empire, not simply rout out the al-Qaida organization. No sooner had the Septembe...
  • The Empire Backfires (March 29, 2004)
    ...oliferation was best stopped by pre-emptive use of force, the new American empire would have been unsalable, to the American people or to Congress. Iraq was...
  • Website of the Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh (February 2, 2004)
    ...-American Crusade Against Islam; The Clash of Civilization; Anglo-American Imperialism; and War in Iraq. Bangla: This section contains Bengali and English-lan...
  • American Exceptionalism (October 25, 2004)
    ...mericans would shudder at any comparison between U.S. behavior and that of Imperial Japan during the 1930s. Yet top U.S. decision-makers have alluded several...
  • NION: Anti-War Protesters Demonstrate in Seattle (October 8, 2002)
    ...rding to a Not in Our Name coordinator. Signs read: “Help stop American imperialism” and “Don’t let Bush call the shots.” Last night’s protests started at 1 p...
  • Reminiscent of the 60's; Mainstream to the Core (February 16, 2003)
    ...and a kaleidoscopic array of malcontents advocating the end of capitalism, imperialism, sexism and taxation, a great many of those who converged on the East Side...
  • The Peace Movement Plans for the Future (July 24, 2003)
    ... done to stop the war. In the words of Sara Flounders, "this was a war for empire, which is almost impossible to stop at the beginning. In fact, the current...
  • Acting Alone (February 1, 2003)
    ... century are hoping to inherit the mantle of the architects of the British Empire in the nineteenth. The conservatism of British imperial policy held it wis...
  • Nation-Building Lite (July 27, 2002)
    ...me as a shock to Americans, who don't like to think of their country as an empire. But what else can you call America's legions of soldiers, spooks and Spec...
  • Among The Three Stooges, US Claims First (Among Equals) (October 15, 2004)
    ...The original architects of the U.S. empire—long before its celebration by today’s neoconservatives—understood the imp...
  • Pipeline Politics Taint US War (March 18, 2002)
    ...hey should be. Why is that? One reason is their media. Stories alleging imperial and commercial motives for the war on terrorism are rife. Outside this...
  • Hostages of the Empire (July 1, 2003)
    ...ot involve challenging Iran. Thus is the traditional logic of 19th-century empire being replayed in the 21st: protecting one conquest requires an indefinite...
  • Are the War and Globalization Really Connected? (October 1, 2004)
    ...l Forum in Pôrto Alegre, Brazil, Roy argued: “We may not have stopped [empire] in its tracks—yet—but we have stripped it down. We have made it drop its...
  • A Deadly Franchise (August 28, 2003)
    ...ror is the US government's thinly veiled excuse for constructing a classic empire, in the model of Rome or Britain. Two years into the crusade, it's clear t...
  • The Zapatistas: The Second Stage (July 15, 2005)
    ... revolutionaries of 1968 were of course protesting everywhere against U.S. imperialism but they were protesting against the movements of the Old Left as well. Fo...
  • Iran On the Brink (July 18, 2002)
    ...ance Saddam makes an earlier exit. Europeans will howl in protest about US imperial unilateralism. They may want to consider that clear expressions of support...
  • Why the Bush Doctrine is Dead (October 3, 2003)
    ...f the Third Infantry Division rolled up the Euphrates, talk of an American empire was in the air. Now in autumn the focus is on job losses, budget deficits,...
  • Raising a Voice (February 8, 2003)
    ...Venezuela. Among the items on the event's agenda were "US globalisation", "empire, globalisation and struggle", "genocide and ethnic cleansing as a new worl...
  • CIA Plans to Purge its Agency (November 14, 2004)
    ...mer head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit, who wrote a book anonymously called "Imperial Hubris" that criticized what he said was the administration's lack of reso...
  • Rumsfeld: Grab Whom You Must; Do What You Want (May 17, 2004)
    ...blic itself is almost enmeshed with the players themselves. The fictitious empire is being defeated by its lack of morality when it looks at itself in the m...
  • Cuba, the US and Democracy (June 4, 2002)
    ...r the traditional political parties, where the oligarchies that served the empire prevailed, how could our people understand them? Who could teach them? ...
  • The Bubble (November 21, 2003)
    ...n commercial that no one could get close enough to watch. This was the new empire condescending to the old while borrowing a little of its glitter-and-paste...
  • Murder for Profit (September 16, 2002)
    ...in play simultaneously, linked by political opportunism and the desires of empire. Bush will go to war in Iraq to satisfy the dreams of the neo-conserva...
  • Al-Qaeda's Thumbs Up for Bush (June 24, 2004)
    ...aking and the Rule of Law - An Analysis of the Objectives and Delusions of Empire....
  • No Justification (March 19, 2003)
    ...Palestinian state. If we are present at the creation of a new American empire, we are also present at the creation of another superpower--the largest, m...
  • Anti-War Organizer's Politics Cause Rift (February 16, 2003)
    ...lated when subjected to mindless speeches and slogans whose knee-jerk anti-imperialism rarely articulates the deep reasons we should oppose corporate globalizati...
  • Peace Puzzle (September 15, 2002)
    ...e a beacon of freedom and justice to the world if it conducts itself as an empire. Nor can we fight Al Qaeda networks in 60 countries if we alienate our all...
  • Oil, Imperialism and 'Hypocrisy' (February 16, 2003)
    ...ith the U.S. "He's trying to make a name for himself. Britain's role as an imperial power has declined and he's trying to rekindle that through the United Sta...
  • The Eagle Has Crash Landed (July 9, 2002)
    ...seeking not hegemony within the current system but rather a form of global empire. Recall the Nazi slogan ein tausendj”hriges Reich (a thousand-year empire)...
  • America Alone in the World (September 23, 2002)
    ...international law. The self-perception of a unique and benevolent American empire charged with maintaining order in the world irritates allies and adversari...
  • Inconvenient Facts... (July 17, 2003)
    ...gence cookery. My friends on the left fear the administration's budding imperialism. I'm more concerned by its raging anti-empiricism....
  • What Michael Moore Misses About the Empire (July 5, 2004)
    ...raq War was fundamentally illegal and immoral. The whole rotten project of empire building has been illegal and immoral — and every bit as much a Democratic...
  • Iraq: The Moon Is Down, Again! (April 23, 2004)
    ... to develop various symptoms of psychological stress. The Germans, like imperial conquerors back to the Romans and beyond, sought to legitimatize their occ...
  • Japan's Military Sculpts New Image in Iraqi Sand (February 10, 2004)
    ...rrender to the United States in 1945. Pacifism has run deep here since the Imperial Army led 2 million soldiers to their deaths in World War II and the United...
  • NION: Anti-War Protesters Line Streets in Central California (October 7, 2002)
    ...About 50 residents of Tulare County, in the Imperial Valley in California, stood in the sun waving signs that read "God is Love...
  • Rogue Statesman (September 25, 2002)
    ... free markets, and free trade to every corner of the globe," says the Bush imperial plan. But there are plenty of countries--including our own and our closest...
  • Why the Anti-War Movement Was Right (April 16, 2003)
    ...cked to oversee the rebuilding of Iraq, as "viceroy." It reeks of colonial imperialism. Why not just call him "Head Bwana?" Or "Garner of Arabia?" I didn't reali...
  • Let Them Hate as Long as They Fear (March 7, 2003)
    ...as been carefully fomented by Republican officials, Rupert Murdoch's media empire and other administration allies. Can you blame Mexicans for interpreting M...
  • The Problem with 'Anyone But Bush' (February 4, 2004)
    ...ss a complete re-evaluation and reassessment of America's ambitions toward empire is undertaken. What the ABB movement fails to recognize is that neither De...
  • How Many Body Bags? (November 4, 2003)
    ...willing to trade the lives of U.S. troops and Iraqis for the obsessions of empire, we must end the occupation now. The U.S. can give Chalabi and his crow...
  • Bush Continues the 'Big Lie' in the Face of Mountains of Contrary Evidence (June 22, 2004)
    ...all along: the Bush administration lied and misled America into a needless imperial pet project that has killed thousands of innocent Iraqis and hundreds of U...
  • Murdering Arafat? (April 1, 2002)
    ...30 years ago, causing them to start a hopeless rebellion against the Roman empire and bringing utter destruction upon the Jewish commonwealth in Palestine....
  • How the Peace Movement Blew It (April 3, 2003)
    ...on and dictatorship from being a cover for an unending war for an American Empire. We should have demanded an expanded Security Council with no vetoes, w...
  • The Reason Why (April 21, 2003)
    ...ced the French in their failing effort to regain control of their colonial empire in Southeast Asia, 1946-54, and then for the next twenty years as we sough...
  • No Case for War (September 30, 2002)
    ...e UN charter, imperil the Constitution and transform the President into an imperial overlord. Write, call, act now (see the box on page 5). Americans who...
  • A Nation of Victims (June 12, 2003)
    ...atic Party, even constitutional liberties, to concentrate all power in the imperial presidency and the Republican Party. Bush's political opponents are ca...
  • Britain Tried First. Iraq Was No Picnic Then. (July 20, 2003)
    ...onalism and fought alongside its guerrillas to victory against the Ottoman Empire, only to see the same guerrilla tactics turned against the British in a re...
  • Journalism Should Never Yield to 'Patriotism' (May 30, 2002)
    ...eas from the Margins to the Mainstream. His pamphlet, "Citizens of the Empire," is available at http://www.nowarcollective.com/citizensoftheempire.pdf....
  • Have 1,000 U.S. Souls Died for Oil? (September 14, 2004)
    ... war was to protect oil might make it appear that United States engaged in imperial wars to grab resources, much like the Japanese did prior to World War II....
  • What Is a Neo-Conservative Anyway? (August 13, 2003)
    ... Washington's entry into World War II. Thus, Kelly, again writing about US imperial altruism: "Unlike the European powers, the United States has never sought...
  • Living By The Sword (September 2, 2002)
    ...se in all past ages, except during the first two centuries AD of the Roman Empire, when it constituted a single state, ruled by a single person. This was an...
  • Tomahawk, Power Tool (March 21, 2003)
    ...cientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "The American empire is limited by our own willingness to provide soldiers for this empire. Thi...
  • Armed to the Teeth (February 10, 2002)
    ...einforcing the idea already held by many anti-US groups that it is an evil empire bent on world domination. Cynics have identified more overtly self-serv...
  • Perle Speaks at Charity with 'Terrorist Ties' (January 29, 2004)
    ...rent Iranian government supports terrorism and said the fall of the Soviet empire foreshadowed the fate of the mullahs who he said control Iran. He said the...
  • Report from New York (February 16, 2003)
    ... in Iraq is Wack," "Goo Goo Dolls Fans for Peace," "Viva La France!" "It's Imperialism!" "Lay Down Your Swords (J. Christ, Occupied Palestine)" and "Eat Another...
  • Why the Capture Could Make Things Worse (December 21, 2003)
    ...so enraged that they accused al-Jazeera of being an instrument of American imperialism. Reaction to the capture may be divided but perhaps the only point of g...
  • Iraqi Civil War Brewing (August 29, 2003)
    ...side all warnings. Present-day Iraq was three provinces of the Ottoman Empire before World War I. It was cobbled together by the British for their own c...
  • The Fog of War Talk (July 28, 2003)
    ...phrase credited to the Project for the New American Century, sanitizes the imperial project of overthrowing a foreign government through a military invasion....
  • US Expands Its Presence Across the Globe (March 8, 2002)
    ...ry advisers to a host of countries. In another move into the former Soviet empire, the US announced in the last week that it is to send to Georgia up to 200...
  • Old Arab Friends Turn Away (February 26, 2003)
    ... believes defies international law, signals the rebirth of colonialism and imperialism that seemed finished generations ago. "I feel we have been deceived abo...
  • How to Squander Moral Capital (September 9, 2002)
    ...eir grievances to the side — and everyone has grievances against the imperial center. Still, millions of people did nudge their grievances aside. They d...
  • NION: McDermott Accuses Bush of Plotting to Be Emperor (October 7, 2002)
    ... trying to bring to himself all the power to become an emperor — to create Empire America," he said. And he warned his supporters, "If you go along like...
  • The World in 2005 (March 1, 2002)
    ...ng regional politics to a degree unknown since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. Remember that the war has been launched at a time when...
  • Pearl Harbor in Reverse (October 23, 2002)
    ... current crisis, a ghost of imperialisms past. Joseph Conrad denounced the imperialism of his day as a "vile scramble for loot"—for diamonds, tin, copper, and oi...
  • Greens, the Anti-War Movement and 2004 (June 11, 2003)
    ...; think how irrelevant it would be had it become a rubber stamp for Bush's imperialism.) What, then, should be the Green plan for 2004? I have debated over th...
  • War, Incorporated (July 17, 2002)
    ... to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence amon...
  • Interview with Al Qaeda's Abu Ghaith (June 24, 2002)
    ...ell as all righteous people who refuse this aggressive occupation and this imperialism on this blessed country. Indeed there have been many casualties among the...
  • The Real Battle Comes After the War (March 8, 2002)
    ...of this approach. The point that was apparent to Lyautey and to successful imperial commanders of other nations, if in a deeply distorted way, was that the tw...
  • Illusions of Iraqi Democracy (October 8, 2002)
    ...ge and govern. Hastily glued together by Britain in the 1920s to serve its imperial interests, it was placed under the Hashemite monarchy, brought from nearby...
  • The 10 Worst Corporations of 2003 (April 1, 2004)
    ...y list on once interesting stations and offering cultural support for U.S. imperial adventures. It has also compiled a record of “repeated law-breaking”—inclu...
  • A Diplomat's Letter of Resignation (February 27, 2003)
    ...the Russia of the late Romanovs really our model, a selfish, superstitious empire thrashing toward self-destruction in the name of a doomed status quo? W...
  • Hold Bush to His Lie (February 5, 2004)
    ...ng up 180 local and provincial town councils in the rubble. This was newly imperial territory for firms accustomed to the friendly NGO-speak of "public-privat...
  • How Saddam Might Reply to President Bush's Sabre-Rattling (July 21, 2002)
    ...alists are determined to turn the world into a U.S. version of the British Empire. "The people in the Pentagon pulling Bush's strings know our beloved I...
  • 'Insurgents' Delay 'Second Coming' of Bush (January 21, 2005)
    ...te, through the streets all across the capitol of the Christian crusaders' empire, and make their voices heard around the world....
  • Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents (September 1, 2002)
    ...to be against the war and how war fits into the global project of American empire, has also led to a poverty of thinking about what kind of actions make sen...
  • With All Deliberate Stupidity (February 3, 2004)
    ...ss. Nothing short of a complete, public and thorough repudiation of Bush's imperial mission can begin to justify prolonging the occupation as a means of "stab...
  • Transfer the Administration of Iraq to the UN (July 31, 2003)
    ... invasion and occupation of Iraq not as an act of liberation but an act or imperialism. As a result, there is a growing opposition in Iraq to the U.S. occupat...
  • 'The War on Terrorism': A Doctrine of Aggression for the Propagation of US Style 'Democracy' by Force (December 15, 2004)
    ...r (suryo'ng), Comrade Kim Il-song (Kim Il Sung), taught the following: "Imperialism is the root cause of war and the destroyer of peace. Imperialists are ceas...
  • Sectarian Discord in Iraq (February 13, 2004)
    ...is almost one year after Iraq was occupied? Is it logical that the biggest empire in history and the owner of the most modern scientific and technological c...
  • Is Protest Music Dead? (April 16, 2002)
    ...y's murdered antiwar protesters of 1970; his "Cortez the Killer" condemned imperialism. Now we find him on his post-Sept. 11 cut, "Let's Roll," singing, "Let's r...
  • Raise the Fist case far from over (July 10, 2005)
    ...erflow, our communities will continue to be occupied by police forces, U.S imperialism will still exist. The only true appeal to injustice is revolution. We have...
  • Millions March Against War (February 16, 2003)
    ...to account that the world is not going to let the United States become the imperial master that it wants to be." In Philadelphia, demonstrators, including...
  • Keep the Global Ideal Alive (July 14, 2003)
    ...'s a time to widen and deepen debate about the shape of the world to come: empire, its discontents, and the alternatives. To think that all would be well in...
  • Howard Zinn on Dissent (July 3, 2002)
    ... and British empires have gone and the United States remains the one great empire of the world, then the United States is in a position to say, "Well, we're...
  • Why the Mullahs Love a Revolution (April 24, 2003)
    ...he region. In particular, the dogged nationalism of the Iraqis that forced imperial Britain's departure in 1932; and, more recently, the events in 1979 after...
  • 40 Years of Iraqi History and News Coverage Considered (October 23, 2002)
    ...ter World War I, when Britain joined three provinces of the former Ottoman Empire to form a new nation. Iraq's territory comprised a southern region dominat...
  • Anti-War Rallies Draw Millions Around World (February 16, 2003)
    ...ut to just drop a bomb on it is like opening a Pandora's box. This is pure imperialism, even for such an old and conservative guy like me." In contrast, the t...
  • Does the United States Start Wars? (October 8, 2002)
    ...nish colony. By the war's end, the United States had become a full-fledged imperial power, with rights to the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Unlike ou...
  • America is a Religion (July 29, 2003)
    ...ica, but the kingdom of hell could also now be located on earth: the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union, against which His holy warriors were pitched. Si...
  • Patriotism and Protest (February 16, 2003)
    ...g into war. But the American left, the natural vehicle for opponents of imperial overreach, remains a tiny persuasion — and a sharply divided one at that....
  • 'Neo-Liberals,' George W. Bush, and War in Iraq (March 10, 2004)
    ...sive change in the Middle East. They are uncomfortable with the concept of empire that some neoconservatives blithely nurture. They believe in alliances and...
  • Bush officials pressuring Pakistan to catch Osama bin Laden by election (July 8, 2004)
    ..." says a senior intelligence official, who anonymously authored the recent Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror and who says he has n...
  • A New York State of Mind (February 16, 2003)
    ...uted, "Peace! Peace! Peace!" Imprecations against blood-sucking capitalist imperialism were scarce. Yet it was really the brainy New York crowd who made the c...
  • How Bush Wealth is Linked to The Holocaust (June 1, 2002)
    ... return to the year 1916, where it all began. Post World War I: Thyssen Empire On The Ropes By 1916, August Thyssen could see the writing on the w...
  • A Register of Immigrants' Fears (January 20, 2003)
    ...med said he was raised amid steadily increasing prosperity as his father's empire grew to encompass eight multimillion-dollar companies. At 26, Mohammed...
  • A Path of Lies (September 9, 2003)
    ...aging it. That's why Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as the "evil empire." Not coincidentally, the words, "evil" and "evildoers," became the hallma...
  • An Anti-War Movement of One (September 12, 2002)
    ...dience asked if America would die like Rome, Nazi Germany, and the British Empire. One panelist agreed that, yes, America will die. The audience applauded. ...
  • High-Tech Strategy Guides Pentagon Plan (July 13, 2002)
    ...knee-deep in the internal quarrels and ancestral politics of a region even imperial Britain learned to avoid. Before rushing to embrace a new strategy, we...
  • Internet Newspapers as Alternative Media: The Case of OhmyNews in South Korea (January 1, 2004)
    ...wspapers can give a voice to the voiceless people and counter the cultural imperialism of media multinational corporations. Rev. Cheon Young-Cheol is a rese...
  • Extending The Boycott (September 2, 2002)
    ...r structures of their societies; they are a potent source of ideologies of imperialism, as well as of race and class exploitation. Israeli universities are no ex...
  • Unilateralism Revisited (July 12, 2002)
    ...These measures combine an indifference to international agreements with an imperial hubris grounded in America's current military superiority. They may not ba...
  • The Oil We Eat: Following The Food Chain Back To Iraq (July 23, 2004)
    ...Corn itself simply joined the wheat-beef people’s coalition. Wheat was the empire builder; its bare botanical facts dictated the motion and violence that we...
  • New US Doctrine Worries Europeans (September 29, 2002)
    ... trends Europeans find most troubling. "Preemption says to us, 'This is an empire and we will not allow anybody to get close to our capabilities and we are...
  • Oiling Up the Draft Machine? (November 3, 2003)
    ...ne would want that fight," he explains. "It would highlight the cost of an imperial foreign policy, add an incendiary issue to the already emotional protests,...
  • On the Dark Side of Democracy (January 31, 2004)
    ... democratization," he said. "Why should democracy get the blame for failed empire?" In his view, Ms. Chua's book "is based on a straw man of U.S. policy,...
  • Advertising Meets Activism (July 31, 2003)
    ...hotocopied signs demanding "Racism, Sexism, Classism Must Go," and "Resist Empire" can be found beneath the bridge. Turn the corner onto Wylie Street and...
  • The State of Security and Warfare of Demons (April 1, 2003)
    ...ntrol.” Discourse 2:3 (1998): 139-152. Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. Empire. London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Lyotard, Jean-François. The Post...
  • Seeking Honesty in US Policy (September 14, 2003)
    ...y, the pretensions of moral rectitude that mask a jodhpurs-and-pith-helmet imperialism that cannot succeed. In the meantime, we must demonstrate that we under...
  • Abuse of Iraqi POWs by GIs Probed (April 29, 2004)
    ...o the Abu Ghraib prison never came out. It was the centerpiece of Saddam’s empire of fear, and those prisoners who did make it out told nightmarish tales of...
  • We're Already Fighting Against the Next War (March 19, 2003)
    ...m's armies fold quickly, we'll need even more to challenge the apostles of empire, who insist that because our armies dwarf those of every other nation, we...
  • The Plot Against Syria: An Irresponsible Accountability Act (March 20, 2004)
    ...s. He teaches at Cal Poly Pomona University. His new book, PRE-EMPTIVE EMPIRE: A GUIDE TO BUSH'S KINGDOM, has just been published by Pluto Press. His ne...
  • Al-Qa'ida's Abu-Muhammad al-Ablaj on Bin Ladin, Weapons, US Targets (September 21, 2003)
    ...of God, the goals and intentions were achieved; the first was the masks of imperialism falling off and the nation awakening from its sleep. US Security ...
  • Left Behind (September 28, 2002)
    ...al liberation on behalf of a people oppressed by dictatorship and American imperialism. She came to admire him personally too, for his honesty, his strength of c...
  • The New Pentagon Papers (March 10, 2004)
    ...ntaining OPEC on a dollar track and not a euro and fulfilling a half-baked imperial vision also played a role. These more accurate reasons for invading and oc...
  • Charter of the Hamas (August 10, 2002)
    ...n the tomb of Salah a-Din and declared: ìWe have returned, O Salah-a-Din!î Imperialism has been instrumental in boosting the ideological invasion and deepening i...
  • Anti-War Students Rock the Vote (August 4, 2003)
    ...ri, who belongs to an anarchist group called People Organized against War, Empire and Rulers, wasn't exactly the incremental-change type—and she certainly d...
  • The Need for a New Wilsonianism (September 2, 2002)
    ...e founding myth had come true. America's success in building a continental empire only fed into the certainty that it could act with total freedom of action...
  • Reflections on Tsunamis and the State of Exception (December 29, 2004)
    ...dentity even when being avenged, with Jews being handed the consolation of Imperial-backed Zionism, which, as Eichman predicted, and many realize now, would c...
  • 'No Third Way' for US Iraqis (December 26, 2002)
    ...ali said. When Iraq's current boundaries were carved out of the Ottoman Empire in 1920, a collection of ethnicities, cultures and religions were lassoed...
  • The Perils Of Empire (April 20, 2003)
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  • The Packet Gang: Open Source Software and Social Movements (January 12, 2004)
    ...zan renaissance has been secured by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s book Empire. The multitude is a defiantly heterogeneous figure, a collective noun inte...
  • Could the Orange Revolution be just a mirage in the snow? (November 28, 2004)
    ...the Kremlin. Regarded as the cradle of Slav culture, it spawned a medieval empire from which Russia itself eventually emerged, and 13 years after the collap...
  • Perils of Preemptive War (September 23, 2002)
    ...conomist, which favors a U.S. invasion of Iraq, nonetheless speaks of the "imperial flavour" of such a potential occupation. But the risks would not end t...
  • The Futility of 'Homeland Defense' (January 1, 2002)
    ... The current version of America can no more button up its borders than mid-empire Britain could. Not just cultural imperatives are at stake. America makes i...
  • Mideast Invasions Face Unexpected Perils (March 19, 2003)
    ...to Egypt, in 1882. Its takeover secured the Suez Canal route to its Indian Empire, but soon triggered a bloody revolt by nationalist Egyptian officers. For...
  • This Unspeakable Act Made Us War Criminals (August 4, 2002)
    ... Had Truman agreed earlier to Japan's stipulation that the survival of the imperial throne be guaranteed instead of playing to political pressures to give no...
  • America's World Role — Present at the Creation (June 27, 2002)
    ...ther daring, is becoming commonplace in policy seminars and on talk-shows: empire. By last September Andrew Bacevich, a military man turned professor of int...
  • How Not to Overthrow Saddam (July 15, 2002)
    ...te, formed from three distinctly different provinces of the former Ottoman Empire (Basra, Baghdad, and Mosul). Saddam comes from the Sunni minority (30 perc...
  • Anyone But Bush (July 19, 2003)
    ...of American power, anywhere, under any circumstances, was illegitimate and imperial ... The sort of fanaticism they displayed did allow them to jump forward g...
  • The Media and War with Iraq (November 17, 2002)
    ...map of the Middle East, since Britain and France, victors over the Ottoman Empire divided up the spoils of the 1914-18 war, the war my father fought in. ...
  • The potential for nonviolence in Palestine (December 6, 2004)
    ...nse and brutal attack, rather than some distant "jewel in the crown" of an empire. A veteran Israeli general once related to me how, in 1949, leaders of...
  • The Fifty-First State (September 18, 2002)
    ... in his book A Peace to End All Peace: that the division of former Ottoman Empire territories after that war created many of the enduring problems of modern...
  • Can We Kill Osama's Ideas? (January 1, 2002)
    ...sentimentally, the ideal geopolitical expression of Muslim universalismóan empire free of Westernized nation-states, where the shari'a, the holy law, reigns...
  • The Wrong War (July 1, 2002)
    ...admitted that he did not believe nonviolence would have worked against any imperial power other than the United Kingdom (an epitaph of which the Raj should be...
  • Not a Dress Rehearsal (August 14, 2003)
    ...ble—key assets in Afghanistan. “We're reinventing the century of the Roman empire, but why not?” says one general. Still, PRTs will at best be only a cataly...
  • How We Helped Create Saddam (September 23, 2002)
    ...ministrationís many critics come true, the Arab street, inflamed by Yankee imperialism, will rise up and replace the shaky but friendly autocrats in the region w...
  • Anti-Anti-Americanism (February 1, 2003)
    ...their game, Sardar and Davies have no qualms about demonizing the American Empire. Toward this end, they trundle out a potted history of American Manifest D...
  • Impossible Histories (July 1, 2002)
    ... an ideological portrait of "Islam" and the Arabs that suited dominant pro-imperial and pro-Zionist strands in U.S. foreign policy. It should be noted that Or...
  • The Sunshine Warrior (September 22, 2002)
    ... often when they were politically inconvenient. For example, as the Soviet empire was unraveling and the first President Bush was clinging to the waning fig...
  • The CIA's Secret Army (January 26, 2003)
    ...n an effort to clean up a reputation sullied by botched overseas coups and imperial assassination attempts, had shied away from getting its hands dirty. Until...
  • Coming In from the Cold? (January 31, 2003)
    ...ng off around various war zones young men as laborers and soldiers for the imperial army and women as ‘comfort women,’ at the cost of countless lives, and the...
  • Bombs and Bytes: Deleuze, Fascism, and the 'Informatic' (January 12, 2004)
    ...rses of fascism, as dominant myths in our time, establish themselves by an imperial-linguistic takeover of a whole social body of expressive potentialities. T...
  • An Interview With Gene Sharp (July 9, 2003)
    ... struggle, when they had risen up in violent rebellion against the Russian Empire time after time, with disastrous results? They had charged out on horses a...
  • A Grand Strategy of Transformation (December 1, 2002)
    ...en he welcomed the Soviet Union's help in the war against Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. But the Bush strategy has long-term as well as immediate implicatio...
  • Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News (March 13, 2005)
    ...hey explained to reporters at the time, was to counter charges of American imperialism by generating accounts that emphasized American efforts to liberate and re...
  • An Analysis of Opposition Movements (February 18, 2003)
    ...am Hussein is a sort of hero standing up for those who oppose the American empire, even if he doesn't treat his own people very well. And if a war begins, a...
  • Diplomatic Breakdown (April 27, 2003)
    ...o Iraq we forgot not only the history of the overreaching, doomed Athenian Empire of the fifth century BC, but even our own recent history. Let us see wheth...
  • The Tyranny of Copyright? (January 25, 2004)
    ...e says. "But in the cultural sphere, big media wants to build a new Soviet empire where you need permission from the central party to do anything." He compl...
  • Preemptive Strike (July 27, 2003)
    ...said on Fox News around the same time. "And if people want to say we're an imperial power, fine." But at 10:45 on this April morning, history's judgment la...
  • A New Grand Strategy (January 1, 2002)
    ... within the region that the Middle East has long been a victim of "Western imperialism" of course exacerbates this animosity. Moreover, aggrieved groups througho...
  • Beyond Fallujah: A Year With The Iraqi Resistance (June 1, 2004)
    ...ect has controlled the country for centuries: from the time of the Ottoman Empire, through the British conquest during the First World War, through the mona...
  • The Currency War (January 26, 2003)
    ...n the dollar standard — thus with the mere stroke of a pen — slay the U.S. Empire? Informed citizens believe this administration is pushing us towards th...
  • American Primacy in Perspective (July 1, 2002)
    ...and naval powers or great military powers on land, never both. The British Empire in its heyday and the United States during the Cold War, for example, each...
  • Dark Heart of the American Dream (June 16, 2002)
    ...power he now feigns not to speak. The story of how Bush Sr constructed his empire is well known, as is that of how his son George W was groomed to follow in...
  • Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs (January 1, 1993)
    ... Anthology, Greg Ruggiero and Stuart Sahulka, editors. I. The Empire of Signs "My fellow Americans," exhorted John F. Kennedy, "haven't...
  • To Invade or Not to Invade? (November 18, 2002)
    ...ry important question and let me lay it out. With regard to the charges of imperialism and the possibility of unrest in the region, I regard these as very real p...
  • Full Text of Bin Ladin 4 January Audio Message (March 4, 2004)
    ... who lived in a state historically located in the northwest of the Persian empire). The concern of their seniors was to be appointed officers for the Romans...
  • Could Sept. 11 Have Been Prevented? (August 4, 2002)
    ...y the force of arms on battlefields, sometimes by the fall of an exhausted empire. But often when historians set about figuring why a nation took one course...
  • Terror and Just Response (July 2, 2002)
    ...n that is strengthened if we go on to adopt the view that this act of "the empire" had "appalling consequences for the economy and society" of Sudan so that...
  • Which War: A One-Shot Publication of Social Reconnaissance (March 1, 2004)
    ...d in that of the ruling order at the same time, what forces move below the empire of names and official declarations, beyond the eternal present of the medi...
  • Iraqi Press Summary (19-27 Dec. 2004) (December 27, 2004)
    ...still detained by the US forces, for his brave role in confronting "the US imperial presence in Iraq." They explained the goals of their front, which include...
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