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Kolko: Why America is Doomed to One Disaster After Another
Znet Article, June, 01 2012
Gabriel Kolko
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Growing numbers in the Defense establishment are increasingly frustrated with a very expensive system that fails to deliver the results promised
Kolko: Why the U.S. Still Doesn't Get the Message
Commentary, May, 05 2010
Gabriel Kolko
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The United States' wars have always been very expensive and capital-intensive, fought with the most modern weapons available and assuming a modern, concentrated enemy such as the Soviet Union. The ever-growing Pentagon budget is virtually the only...
Kolko: Escalation is futile in a war in which complexity defies might
Commentary, September, 24 2009
Gabriel Kolko
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The US scarcely knew what a complex disaster it was confronting when it went to war in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. It will eventually - perhaps years from now - suffer the same fate as Alexander the Great, the British and the Soviet Union: def...
Kolko: Israel: A Stalemated Action of History
Znet Article, August, 25 2009
Gabriel Kolko
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In late 1949 I worked on a boat taking Jews from Marseilles to Haifa, Israel. Jews from Arab nations were in the front of the boat, Europeans in the rear. I was regarded by many of the Europeans as some sort of freak because I had a United States ...
Kolko: The Contours of Recent American Foreign Policy
Znet Article, August, 01 2009
Gabriel Kolko
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War, from preparation for it through to its aftermath, has defined both the essential nature of the major capitalist nations and their relative power since at least 1914. War became the major catalyst of change for revolutionary movements in Russi...
Kolko: How to Inflame the Entire Muslim World
Znet Article, January, 21 2009
Gabriel Kolko
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How will history describe the Israeli war against the Palestinians in Gaza? Another Holocaust, this time perpetrated by the descendants of the victims? An election ploy by ambitious Israeli politicians to win votes in the February 10 elections? A ...
Kolko: Destabilizing the Islamic World
Znet Article, January, 03 2008
Gabriel Kolko
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Communism's virtual disappearance caused the geopolitical and strategic factors that produced alliances and coalitions after 1947 to decline and lose their justifications everywhere, but new ones have been more difficult to make. The situation i...
Kolko: 'Many in the US military think Bush and Cheney are out of control'
Znet Article, October, 17 2007
Gabriel Kolko
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SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Kolko, editorials in US papers like the Wall Street Journal, t...
Kolko: The Financial Crisis-An Outline
Commentary, October, 16 2007
Gabriel Kolko
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The global financial crisis that is now unfolding was both predictable and predicted. It might have happened before the subprime mortgage meltdown in the United States triggered it, but it is important to stress that it was expected. "An accident...
Kolko: Will US Attack Iran? Hersh, Kolko Weigh In
Znet Article, October, 01 2007
Gabriel Kolko
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THE U.S. AND EUROPEAN ECONOMIES are now in a crisis, and it may be protracted. The dollar is falling in value, Gulf States and others may abandon it, etc. A war with Iran would produce economic chaos, because oil would be scarce. There are states,...
Kolko: 'The US Will Lose War Regardless What it Does'
Znet Article, September, 11 2007
Gabriel Kolko
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SPIEGEL: The long awaited results of the "surge" are now in. Has the surge succeeded? Is there r...
Kolko: The Predicted Financial Storm Has Arrived
Commentary, August, 29 2007
Gabriel Kolko
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Contradictions now wrack the world's financial system, and a growing consensus exists between those who endorse it and those who argue the status quo is both crisis-prone as well as immoral. If we are to believe the institutions and personalities...
Kolko: An economy of buccaneers and fantasists
Znet Article, August, 15 2007
Gabriel Kolko
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An economy of buccaneers and fantasists
Kolko: Mechanistic Destruction
Znet Article, August, 11 2007
Gabriel Kolko
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The United States has rarely lost any conventional military battle since at least 1950. Nor has it, at the same time, ever won a war. It has successfully overthrown governments through interventions or subversion but the political results of all i...
Kolko: Israel's Last Chance
Znet Article, March, 19 2007
Gabriel Kolko
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The United States has given Israel $51.3 billion in military grants since 1949, most of it after 1974 – more than any other country in the post-1945 era. Israel has also received $11.2 billion in loans for military equipment, plus $31 bill...
Kolko: Factors in Our Colossal Mess
Znet Article, November, 26 2006
Gabriel Kolko
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These are dis...
Kolko: Iraq and Vietnam
Znet Article, November, 09 2006
Gabriel Kolko
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President Bush’s acknowledgement in late October that the comparison between the Ramadan attacks in Iraq and the Tet offensive in Vietnam “could be right†brought into focus the Iraq-Vietnam debate This debate suggests, amo...
Kolko: AN ECONOMY OF BUCCANEERS AND FANTASISTS
Znet Article, October, 16 2006
Gabriel Kolko
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Last month a major US hedge fund, Amaranth Advisors, lost ...
