I already updated my original post from 2009 once based on Tom Engelhardt’s analysis, adding a few of my own thoughts. I want to revisit the original, provide an addendum to my review of Oliver Stone’s Untold History, and draw attention to Andrew Bacevich’s alternative narrative titled “American Imperium.” This is about geopolitics and military […]
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Crystallizing the Moment (re-redux)
Posted: May 2, 2016 in Culture, Debate, History, Media, Narrative, PoliticsTags: Geopolitics, Guns, Memes, Militarism, National Security State, Politics, Reviews, Rhetoric
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Crystallizing the Moment (redux)
Posted: March 22, 2015 in Corporatism, Culture, History, PoliticsTags: Communications, National Security State, Neologisms, Politics, Redux, Tom Engelhardt, Voting
I have always remembered a striking line from the movie The Dancer Upstairs where the police investigator, who is tracking the leader of Shining Path in Peru in the 1980s, says (paraphrasing from Spanish), “I think there is a revolution going on.” Elsewhere on the globe today, Arab Spring has morphed from a series of […]
Former President George W. Bush (what a pleasure to be able that say that) has both taken and been given a lot of credit for keeping us safe in the post-9/11 years of his administration. It’s a spurious claim, considering there is no way to verify what didn’t happen owing to precautionary actions, many of […]
The Spiral Staircase 