The general contours are pretty clear. The US effectively displaced Britain as world-dominant power during World War II, quite consciously — there…
Noam Chomsky
My guess is that the Bush administration planners will not call for a draft. The military command, and the civilian leadership, learned…
Of course, the sentiment will seem outlandish to those who take it for granted that we are entirely justified in grinding people…
Will the effort succeed? I certainly have no basis for predicting, if only because I’ve been wrong about this all along. My…
First, nothing remotely like capitalism exists. Is the US economy, relying crucially on the dynamic state sector, a capitalist economy? But putting…
July 14, 2004 in Cambridge, MA. Ziga Vodovnik: When somebody declares himself as an anarchist, he basically tells very little about his…
My guess is that the US will not attack Iran, either directly or via Israeli mercenary pilots flying US aircraft (which would…
The elections of November 2004 have received a great deal of discussion, with exultation in some quarters, despair in others, and general…
We have a fairly clear idea of what [Bush’s] planners want, but what we can expect depends on circumstances, including those we…
The question why the US has been mildly supportive of Brazil as a new permanent member of the Security Council, despite its…