From CommonDreamsIn a 1996 essay in Foreign Affairs, the conservative authors William Kristol and Robert Kagan proposed a U.S. foreign policy of “benevolent global hegemony.” Scoffing at former President John Quincy Adams’s maxim that America “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy,” they asked, “But why not? The alternative is to leave monsters on the … [Read more...] about Only a Reckoning With the Disastrous Legacy of the So-called 'War on Terror' Can Heal the United States
Social Justice/社会正義
'Cruelty Was Always the Plan': Pressed on Mass Family Separations in Final Debate, Trump Smears Victims as 'Bad People'
From CommonDreamsPublished on Friday, October 23, 2020byCommon Dreams'Cruelty Was Always the Plan': Pressed on Mass Family Separations in Final Debate, Trump Smears Victims as 'Bad People' "The Trump immigration agenda is defined by cruelty: it's responsible for six children dying in cages, forced women into unnecessary surgeries … [Read more...] about 'Cruelty Was Always the Plan': Pressed on Mass Family Separations in Final Debate, Trump Smears Victims as 'Bad People'
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From National Security ArchiveWashington D.C., October 22, 2020 - On October 23, 1970, one day after armed thugs intercepted and mortally wounded the Chilean army commander-in-chief, General Rene Schneider, as he drove to work in Santiago, CIA Director Richard Helms convened his top aides to review the covert coup operations that had led to the attack. “[I]t was … [Read more...] about <div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/styles/nsarchive_square_thumbnail/public/thumbnails/image/schneider-official-portrait.jpg?itok=Cw_dDyBI" width="100" height="100" alt="Schneider official portrait" title="Schneider official portrait"></div></div>
Aaron Sorkin Turned the Chicago 7’s Militancy and Defiance Into Bland Liberalism
From JacobinYou don’t have to know a lot about the actual history that inspired Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 to get the sense that Aaron Sorkin’s version softens, tames, and fictionalizes these wild events of the late 1960s. Sorkin starts by capturing various … [Read more...] about Aaron Sorkin Turned the Chicago 7’s Militancy and Defiance Into Bland Liberalism
Imagining the End of Capitalism With Kim Stanley Robinson
From JacobinInterview by Derrick O'Keefe … [Read more...] about Imagining the End of Capitalism With Kim Stanley Robinson