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- Friday, Jun 01, 2012
ZNet Article Growing numbers in the Defense establishment are increasingly frustrated with a very expensive system that fails to deliver the results promised -
- Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, Sep 24, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Tuesday, Aug 25, 2009
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Saturday, Aug 01, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Wednesday, Jan 21, 2009
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Thursday, Jan 03, 2008
ZNet Article 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... -
- Saturday, Nov 24, 2007
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- Wednesday, Oct 17, 2007
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SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Kolko, editorials in US papers like the Wall Street Journal, t... -
- Tuesday, Oct 16, 2007
Commentary 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... -
- Monday, Oct 01, 2007
ZNet Article 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,... -
- Tuesday, Sep 11, 2007
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SPIEGEL: The long awaited results of the "surge" are now in. Has the surge succeeded? Is there r... -
- Wednesday, Aug 29, 2007
Commentary 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... -
- Wednesday, Aug 15, 2007
ZNet Article An economy of buccaneers and fantasists -
- Saturday, Aug 11, 2007
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Mar 19, 2007
ZNet Article 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... -
- Sunday, Nov 26, 2006
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- Thursday, Nov 09, 2006
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Oct 16, 2006
ZNet Article Last month a major US hedge fund, Amaranth Advisors, lost ... -
- Tuesday, Sep 05, 2006
ZNet Article The United States had a monopoly of nuclear weaponry only a few years before other nations challenged it, but from 1949 until roughly the 1990s deterrence theory worked - nations knew that if they used the awesome bomb they were likely to be devas... -
- Friday, Aug 25, 2006
ZNet Article The United States had a monopoly of nuclear weaponry only a few years before other nations challenged it, but from 1949 until roughly the 1990s deterrence theory worked -- nations knew that if they used the awesome bomb they were likely to be deva... -
- Tuesday, May 03, 2005
ZNet Article Amsterdam – The war in Vietnam that ended 30 years ago with a complete triumph for the Communists was the longest, most expensive and divisive American war in its history, involving over a half-million U.S. forces at one point-plus Austral... -
- Wednesday, Nov 19, 2003
ZNet Article There are great cultural, political and physical differences between Vietnam and Iraq that cannot be minimised, and the geopolitical situation is entirely different. But the US has ignored many of the lessons of the traumatic Vietnam experience an... -
- Friday, May 02, 2003
ZNet Article The disintegration of the Soviet bloc permitted American unilateralism on a scale the modern world has never seen. But with its war against Iraq the United States for the first time openly massed its military power and then invaded another nation,... -
- Friday, May 01, 1998
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