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Obama’s national security team: I hope you didn’t really believe in change?

By / 8 Comments / 7 June 2009

I was going to write about this travesty, but Tom Engelhardt has said it — and better than I could. “Who Rules the Pentagon?“, Tom Engelhardt, posted at TomDispatch, 25 November 2008 — Excerpt: The Obama national security “team” — part of that much-hailed “team of rivals” — does not yet exist, but it does …

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These days all US Presidents are War Presidents (part 3)

By / 3 Comments / 16 July 2012

Summary:  Evidence accumulates that President-elect Obama will staff his foreign policy (now militarized to “national security”) team with advocates for the America Imperium.  This delights conservatives and repeats (perhaps unconsciously) the history of the Kennedy Administration.  Let’s hope it ends differently, without an expanded war and a dead President. Despite the hopes of the Left, …

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