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Uncle Sam, Global Gangster

Summary:  Americans increasingly live in a world bordered by our amnesia.  Our past lost, replaced by myths.  Our recent history largely forgotten, replaced by a vague jumble of half-remembered events.  To tell the story of our past decade requires someone with a clear understanding of geopolitical dynamics, able to place each step in our wars in a …

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450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet – The Pentagon’s Afghan Basing Plans for Prisons, Drones, and Black Ops

Summary:  While the evidence accumulates that we’re accomplished little in Afghanistan, we continue to pour vast sums into building bases there.  Perhaps in time to be abandoned like the vast bases in Iraq, also built at great cost.  Meanwhile components of our vital infrastructure rots away, with people unemployed who could be rebuilding them.  Seldom has the wealth …

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The biggest re-branding exercise in the history of the world

Summary:  What is the face of America, the image we present to the world?  In many of the key areas we’re conducting a massive effort to re-brand America.  Perhaps still as a force for order, but as a dark force. The image we project to the world is an important aspect of our grand strategy.  …

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