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The militarization of the US comes at high cost. At the top of the list is the possibility of war. The militarization of US foreign policy has also promoted a sense of American exceptionalism and national superiority.
Both the parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, are in basic agreement that: All of the social gains made by the working class in the course of more than a century of struggle must be wiped out, to pay for the U.S. government’s addiction to war and military spending.
The wars the United States waged and fueled in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths, and displaced at least 38 million people—according to a report by Brown University.
A bombshell new investigation from ‘The Intercept’ reveals that former U.S. national security adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was responsible for even more civilian deaths during the U.S. war in Cambodia than was previously known.
Remarks delivered at a webinar in honor of the 60th anniversary of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the predecessor to the African Union (AU) formed in 2002.
While outright expropriation, or robbery, is always present in capitalism, as an external basis of its existence, the inner dynamic of the system arises from the exploitation of labor power, a more hidden form of robbery.
Raising taxes on the rich, whether through the corporate profit tax or through a wealth tax, should be the obvious way of raising resources to finance government expenditure. But both Biden administration and the Republicans leave out this alternative in the current debate on US debt ceiling.
In December 2023, the infamous Monroe Doctrine will be 200 years old. For some people, the name refers simply to a long and complex foreign policy document with constitutional status, but it is far more than that.
The military-industrial complex that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about more than 60 years ago is still alive and well. In fact, it’s consuming many more tax dollars and feeding far larger weapons producers than when Ike raised the alarm. Also: “US Makes Up c 40% of Global Military Spending, 10x Russia, 3x China”.
There’s another “me too” story, about a movement that began a decade before it was a hashtag.
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