US Empire

On North Korea’s Nuclear Test

January 9, 2016 Alice Slater, www.popularresistance.org Educate! North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

By Alice Slater for Popular Resistance. This latest terrifying and dreadful underground nuclear test by North Korea should be a warning to the United States and the other nuclear weapons states, that the longer we continue to modernize and cling to our nuclear arsenals and promote a nuclear deterrence policy which promise catastrophic threats of nuclear retaliation if attacked, the more additional countries will be seeking to get their own "deterrent", just as North Korea has done creating ever greater threats of accidental or deliberate nuclear disaster.. It is telling that at the same time we made the deal with Iran to rein in their "peaceful" nuclear power program and secure their enriched uranium in Russia, we promised "peaceful" nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Turkey so they too will have their bomb in the basement.

Syria Is The Middle Eastern Stalingrad

January 6, 2016 Andre Vltchek, www.dissidentvoice.org Educate! Imperialism, ISIS, NATO, Syria, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

By Andre Vltchek for Dissident Voice - Day and night, for years, an overwhelming force has been battering this quiet nation, one of the cradles of human civilization. Hundreds of thousands have died, and millions have been forced to flee abroad or have been internally displaced. In many cities and villages, not one house is left intact. But Syria is, against all odds, still standing. During the last 3 years I worked in almost all of Syria’s perimeters, exposing the birth of ISIS in the NATO-run camps built in Turkey and Jordan.

US Regime Change Madness Even Too Much For Pentagon

January 6, 2016 Gareth Porter, www.middleeasteye.net Educate! Syria, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

By Gareth Porter for Middle East Eye - Seymour Hersh’s recent revelations about an effort by the US military leadership in 2013 to bolster the Syrian army against jihadist forces in Syria shed important new light on the internal bureaucratic politics surrounding regime change in US Middle East policy. Hersh’s account makes it clear that the Obama administration’s policy of regime change in both Libya and Syria provoked pushback from the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). That account and another report on a similar episode in 2011 suggest that the US military has a range of means by which it can oppose administration policies that it regards as unacceptable.

Newsletter: An Opening For People Power

December 20, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Climate Change, COP21, Fight for 15, Revolution, Trade, US Empire

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The reality that corporatism cannot deal with the urgent problems faced in the US and around the world is becoming more obvious. People power is growing as more see that the current system is unable to operate in a functional way. People power is having an impact, forcing the country to listen. How do we create the transformation we need? The UN climate talks, COP21, are now recognized widely as a failure, at best a framework to be filled at a later date. Why were countries unable to confront climate change? The dominant economic and political power in the world is the United States. We are ruled by corporate power which is corrupted by Big Energy and as a result the US ensured a bad agreement.

Exposed By Wikileaks: US Empire According To Itself

December 13, 2015 Robert J. Burrowes, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Julian Assange, US Empire, Wars and Militarism, Wikileaks

By Robert J. Burrowes for Popular Resistance. In the book 'The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire' which has just been published, we are taken on a journey to understand just how the world works if we read the 'top secret' correspondence of those who regard themselves as our masters. Following a thoughtful contextual introduction by Julian Assange, our journey is guided by eighteen first-rate scholars who carefully explain the significance of a range of Wikileaks-released documents in relation to the region of the world in which they specialize. Overall, the authors provide an extremely coherent account of the way in which the US empire functions.

Nobel Peace Laureates Oppose Torture, Perpetuate Myths

August 16, 2015 Robert J. Burrowes, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Nobel Prize, Peace, Torture, US Empire

By Robert J. Burrowes of Flame Tree Prtoject. In a recent letter to US President Barack Obama twelve Nobel Peace laureates declared their support for the long history of US elite violence against Native Americans and enslaved Africans, as well as the US imperial violence around the world that has butchered tens of millions of people over the past 200 years. See 'US: An End to Torture: Twelve Nobel Peace Prize laureates write to President Barack Obama asking the US to close the dark chapter on torture once and for all. Obama responds'. The letter, the response from Obama and a subsequent article written by Ramos-Horta – see 'Obama: The Courage to Say "We Were Wrong"' – were a stark reminder to those of us who struggle to end the violence in our world of what genuine peace activists are up against.

Okinawans Reject New US Air Base, Call It ‘Base Laundry’

June 16, 2015 Staff, www.japantoday.com Educate! Asian Pivot, Okinawa, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

By Yoshio Shimoji in Japan Today. Okinawa, Japan - Constructing a replacement facility for the Futenma Air Station in Henoko on northern Okinawa Island is nothing but an act of selling Japan's sovereign soil to a foreign power. The U.S. side says that, unless Futenma is relocated to Henoko, it will remain at the current site forever. As I have repeatedly said, Futenma sits on stolen property, because the lands it sits on were confiscated illegally from private landholders. Washington knows this well enough and wants the base to be relocated to Henoko, thus vindicating themselves across the board. This is why one can call the Henoko relocation plan "base laundry."

New Chinese Development Bank, Crisis For US Dominance

April 5, 2015 Nick Beams, www.wsws.org Educate! China, Finance and the Economy, Imperialism, US Empire

Yesterday was the deadline for countries to sign up as founding members of the China-backed Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). It will go down in history as marking a significant defeat for the global foreign policy and strategic objectives of United States imperialism. Against strenuous opposition from Washington, more than 40 countries have now indicated they want to be part of the AIIB. Major European powers including Britain, France and Germany, as well as Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands, are on board. Almost all countries in the South East Asian region, which count China as their major trading partner, have also signed up. India is also a signatory, together with Taiwan. The most significant blow against the US was struck by Britain, its chief European ally, which announced its decision to join on March 12. It opened the floodgates for others to follow, including two key US allies in the Asia-Pacific—Australia and South Korea. Japan is also reported to be considering joining, possibly as early as June.

Understanding Ukraine, US and Russia

January 25, 2015 Diana Johnstone, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Russia, Ukraine, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

With astonishing unanimity, NATO leaders feign surprise at events they planned months in advance. Events that they deliberately triggered are being misrepresented as sudden, astonishing, unjustified “Russian aggression”. The United States and the European Union undertook an aggressive provocation in Ukraine that they knew would force Russia to react defensively, one way or another. The fate of Ukraine was decided in September 2013, one of Ukraine’s richest oligarchs, Viktor Pinchuk, paid for an elite strategic conference on Ukraine’s future that was held in the same Palace in Yalta, Crimea, where Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill met to decide the future of Europe in 1945. The Economist, one of the elite media reporting on what it called a “display of fierce diplomacy”, stated that: “The future of Ukraine, a country of 48m people, and of Europe was being decided in real time.” The participants included Bill and Hillary Clinton, former CIA head General David Petraeus, former U.S. Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers, former World Bank head Robert Zoellick, Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt, Shimon Peres, Tony Blair, Gerhard Schröder, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Mario Monti, Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaite, and Poland’s influential foreign minister Radek Sikorski. Both President Viktor Yanukovych, deposed five months later, and his recently elected successor Petro Poroshenko were present.

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