The Pity of Niall Ferguson
- February 07, 2012
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- Matt
There is nothing worse than a warmonger, but few warmongers are as disgusting and contemptible as Niall Ferguson. Anyone who doubts this should contemplate his latest outing as a cheerleader for war on Iran, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe programme yesterday:
There is the Great Man, oozing narcissism, gravitas and a smug sense of his self-importance, as he coolly and without any moral qualms whatsoever, calls for the United States to join Israel and launch air strikes against Iran, while reassuring his gormless journalistic interlocutors and the American public that a) Iran is isolated in the...
Let’s all live in one big happy barracks
- January 27, 2012
- by
- Matt
There’s a good piece by Mark Levine on the Al Jazeera website about Barack Obama’s glorification of the U.S military in his State of the Union address, which began with the fatuous and utterly delusional observation ‘ We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more...
The Pentagon gets real
- January 07, 2012
- by
- Matt
Has the global financial crisis finally begun to impact America’s ability to sustain its global military presence and the megalomaniac dreams of ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’ that have intoxicated US military strategists and national security managers for more than a decade?
At first sight, Barack Obama announcement of the Pentagon’s new ‘realistic’ proposals for a ’21st century...
Iraq: a Bad End to a Bad War
- December 17, 2011
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- Matt
In March 2003 the United States, backed by its faithful lieutenant Britain and a hastily-concocted ‘Coalition of the Willing’, invaded Iraq following a campaign of lies, manipulation, propaganda and manufactured intelligence.
After smashing Saddam Hussein’s decrepit army, the invaders proved unable to install their puppet Ahmed Chalabi in power or ensure security, and began a neo-colonial...
Rise of the Swamp People
- December 10, 2011
- by
- Matt
Even by the Republican party’s dismal standards, the current crop of presidential candidates have to be about the most ignorant collection of flag-waving, corporate-worshipping, clueless morons that have ever competed for the Oval office.
This is the party that unleashed a swathe of wars and global mayhem over the last decade that...
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