American Politics and the World… Post #94: Manipulating Reality: Facebook Is Listening to You 7 Oct 201527 Feb 2017 One thing our generation has become all too used to is how reality can be manipulated to create the appearance of something else entirely. Invading another country is defensive, rigged…
American Politics and the World… Post #79: The Pentagon Slush Fund 1 Jun 201527 Feb 2017 Back in 1959, President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khrushchev took a break from their summit and walked in the woods around Camp David. Khrushchev, in his memoirs, relates a conversation…
American Politics and the World… Post #77: Keep It in the Ground 13 May 201527 Feb 2017 On January 17 the New York Times reported that, to appease environmentalists, the Obama administration would “ban drilling in portions of the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.” But in…
American Politics and the World… Post #76 – TPP: A Deeply Flawed Partnership 4 May 201527 Feb 2017 (Note: A longer version of this post was subsequently published at http://japanfocus.org/-Mel-Gurtov/4318/article.html.) The American people have become used to government trickery in foreign affairs—wars and interventions based on lies and…
American Politics and the World… Post #57 – The Torture Report 9 Dec 201427 Feb 2017 George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are back in the news, defending all the true patriots who brought the United States into the “Global War on Terror” after 9/11. Determined…
American Politics and the World… Post #52 – The Dis-United States and the Withering of the American Model 6 Nov 201427 Feb 2017 American leaders of both parties have always prided themselves on the model democracy that they believe all other countries would benefit from adopting. It’s part of our belief…
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