Both Europe and the United States confront great crises; while they are different in certain regards they have important similarities too. America’s crisis is both military and…
Gabriel Kolko
Gabriel Morris Kolko (August 17, 1932 – May 19, 2014) was an American historian. His research interests included American capitalism and political history, the Progressive Era, and U.S. foreign policy in the 20th century. One of the best-known revisionist historians to write about the Cold War, he had also been credited as "an incisive critic of the Progressive Era and its relationship to the American empire." U.S. historian Paul Buhle summarized Kolko's career when he described him as "a major theorist of what came to be called Corporate Liberalism...[and] a very major historian of the Vietnam War and its assorted war crimes."
The United States’ wars have always been very expensive and capital-intensive, fought with the most modern weapons available and assuming a modern,…
The US scarcely knew what a complex disaster it was confronting when it went to war in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001.…
In late 1949 I worked on a boat taking Jews from Marseilles to Haifa, Israel. Jews from Arab nations were in the…
War, from preparation for it through to its aftermath, has defined both the essential nature of the major capitalist nations and their…
How will history describe the Israeli war against the Palestinians in Gaza? Another Holocaust, this time perpetrated by the descendants of the…
[This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is…
An excerpt form Kolko’s 2002 book Another Century of War (New Press) Communism’s virtual disappearance caused the geopolitical and…
Age of War
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Kolko, editorials in US papers like the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard and the National Review are pushing…
