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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Imperial powers — and so empires — have always been with us. They’ve been part and parcel of history forever and a day. However,...
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“If republican Rome was the first of modern self-governing national communities, she was certainly the ‘Neanderthal’ of them.” H.G. Wells, THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY The Roman republic’s slow but painful transformation into an empire is alarmingly similar...
by Gregg Matson
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on Mon Feb 13, 2023 at 11:02 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Blowback for the Twenty-First Century Remembering Chalmers Johnson By Tom Engelhardt Once upon a time, long, long ago — actually,...
by TomDispatch
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“To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.“ -Tacitus Two thousand years ago each of the Roman Empire’s legions maintained a crucifixion team. Their task was to put death...
by Frank Cocozzelli
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on Sun Mar 20, 2022 at 07:44 AM PDT
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Putin is justifying his brutal unprovoked attack on the people of Ukraine by appealing to history. In his case it looks like he wants to be remembered as the creator of a new Russian Empire. The sort of history that has usually been written since the...
by Thutmose V
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on Thu Mar 03, 2022 at 02:25 PM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Honestly, I wonder why (other than Covid-19) Americans aren’t out in the streets protesting. Oh wait, given that we’ve just...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Jan 17, 2022 at 08:52 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. The request arrived by email, but read as if it were from another age. Would I be open, an executive assistant asked, to having...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Oct 28, 2021 at 12:39 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Seven years after the Soviet Union collapsed in a heap of post-Afghan-War rubble and seven years after President George H.W. Bush...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Jul 29, 2021 at 07:27 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Almost 20 years after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, as the Taliban takes district after district, withdrawing American troops...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Jul 15, 2021 at 09:17 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. As French journalist and novelist Anatole France so aptly wrote in his 1894 novel The Red Lily, “In its majestic equality, the law...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Jun 15, 2021 at 11:41 AM PDT
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I don’t mean by being creative in changing history but correcting it to reflect the reality. France’s colonial past was like the British written to minimize the suffering by the use of a fictive glorious nostalgia for a different time: France was...
by LaFeminista
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on Sun May 30, 2021 at 05:43 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Strange, isn’t it? Our secretary of state emphatically claims that China has been acting “more aggressively abroad” and behaving...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue May 11, 2021 at 07:36 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Here’s the strange thing: almost 20 years into a series of chaotic, staggeringly expensive, failing wars across significant parts...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon May 10, 2021 at 08:43 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Shouldn’t we be amazed? After all, for almost 20 years, the U.S. military has been supporting, equipping, training, and building...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu May 06, 2021 at 07:40 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. American-Style War ’til the End of Time? A Lifetime "at War" By Tom Engelhardt Here’s the strange thing in an ever-stranger world:...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Apr 29, 2021 at 08:57 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. “War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin’!” So went the famed Vietnam War-era protest lyrics first sung by the Temptations....
by TomDispatch
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Honestly, it’s the sort of thing that would be genuinely funny, if it weren’t so grim. You’ve certainly heard about that deal...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Mar 22, 2021 at 08:04 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. More than 19 years ago, the U.S. launched the air war that would become the ground invasion and “liberation” of Afghanistan. More...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Jan 21, 2021 at 08:44 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. In 1998, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright first referred to the U.S. as “the indispensable nation.” That, of course, was...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Jan 19, 2021 at 07:48 AM PST
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“We can be grateful that the assorted criminals and white supremacists Trump chose to fill so many of the highest positions were too incompetent to keep this descent into fascism going any longer. But most all we owe gigantic thanks to the 80 million...
by Gregg Matson
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on Fri Jan 08, 2021 at 07:14 AM PST
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