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SOURCE: TomDispatch
1/7/2021
Will They Ever Be Over? The 20th Anniversary of the War on Terror Arrives
by Nick Turse
Trump's incoherent foreign policy presents Joe Biden an opportunity to take genuine steps to end the entanglements of the war on terror.
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SOURCE: American Conservative
11/11/2020
The Origins Of U.S. Global Dominance
by Daniel Larison
A conservative historian reviews a new book on the history of American interventionism and advocates for reorganizing foreign policy without the imperative to dominate the world.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
11/8/2020
Reclaiming American Idealism: We Could Use A Leader Like George McGovern Again
by William J. Astore
Since the American voters rejected the antimilitaristic candidacy of George McGovern in 1972 the country has come to tolerate astonishing levels of mass death, of which COVID is only the latest instance.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
10/18/2020
Reframing America’s Role in the World: The Specter of Isolationism
by Andrew Bacevich
The release of Stephen Wertheim's book shoud prompt a reconsideration of American intervention abroad.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
10/19/2020
Why Is America the World’s Police? (Review)
by Sam Lebovic
A review of Stephen Wertheim's "Tomorrow, The World" concludes the new book shows how American military supremacy moved in a generation from a novel idea to embedded common sense, and demands rethinking the resources spent to maintain it.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/15/2020
America Has No Reason to Be So Powerful
by Stephen Wertheim
"There was a time when Americans believed that armed dominance obstructed and corrupted genuine engagement in the world, far from being its foundation."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
10/1/2020
How Trump Brought Home the Endless War
by Stephen Wertheim
The Global War on Terror reconfigured American foreign policy around military force against abstract ideas and indeterminate enemies. The divisions of domestic politics set the stage for Donald Trump to move the war to the streets of the United States.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
6/23/2020
Martin Luther King’s Giant Triplets of Injustice
by Andrew Bacevich
Without addressing the fundamental evils of economic inequality and militarism American society will continue to fail to realize the promise of racial equality, as Martin Luther King warned in his 1967 speech at Riverside Church.
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6/14/2020
Let Them Eat Weapons: Trump’s Bizarre Arms Race
by Lawrence Wittner
The Trump administration's stated intention to "spend the adversary into oblivion" through arms buildup is likely to bring ruin to the American public before it harms Russia or China.
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SOURCE: Lapham's Quarterly
4/6/2020
A Revolution of Values
by Peniel E. Joseph
Racial apartheid’s grip on American democracy, argued King, corrupted the nation in war and peace.
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
10/28/19
US Militarism, Having Provoked ISIL into Being, Kills Cult Leader Baghdadi
by Juan Cole
“Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” the nom de guerre of the notorious Iraqi terrorist Ibrahim al-Samarrai, is dead, killed in a US special forces raid on his compound in Syria’s northwest Idlib province.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
10/24/19
Killing Me Softly with Militarism
by William J. Astore
Besides TV shows, movies, and commercials, there are many signs of the increasing embrace of militarized values and attitudes in this country. The result: the acceptance of a military in places where it shouldn’t be, one that’s over-celebrated, over-hyped, and given far too much money and cultural authority, while becoming virtually immune to serious criticism.
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SOURCE: The Daily Beast
7/9/19
The War Against Endless War Heats Up With Koch-Soros Salvo
by Ronald Radosh
The otherwise ideologically opposed billionaires are the latest unlikely pair to find common ground in the idea that American power is the root cause of the world’s problems.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
7/9/19
The Riptide of American Militarism
by William Astore
As Americans wrestled with the possibility of finding themselves in a second looming world war, what advice did the CFR have for then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940?
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4/28/19
Breaking the Grip of Militarism: The Story of Vieques
by Lawrence Wittner
The successful struggle by the Viequenses to liberate their island from the burdens of militarism also provides a source of hope for people around the world.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
2/28/19
What Does It Take to Destroy a World Order?
by Alfred W. McCoy
A Wide-Ranging History Explaining How Climate Change Could End Washington’s Global Dominion
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
2/19/19
New Interactive Tool Maps the American War on Terror
by Stephanie Savell
In general, the American public has largely ignored these post-9/11 wars and their costs. But the vastness of Washington’s counterterror activities suggests, now more than ever, that it’s time to pay attention.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
4-18-17
Scholar: Why presidential candidates (like Trump) campaign as isolationists but (like Trump) govern as hawks
by Verlan Lewis
The pattern goes back at least to 1900.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
2-17-17
Quit calling Donald Trump an isolationist. He’s worse than that.
by Stephen Wertheim
What Trump really believes is far more dangerous.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
8-11-16
Retired Colonel William Astore says the military needs to embrace dissent
by William J. Astore
This is especially needed now that victory is elusive in wars that cost trillions.
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