Kozy is a retired philosophy professor, now writing on social, political and economic issues. He taught for many years and has been writing for many more. Related articles Progressive Radio News Hour – John Kozy – 12/23/12 Progressive Radio News Hour – John McMurtry – 01/13/2013 Progressive Radio News …
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By now we are familiar with imperial states using their military power to attack, destroy and occupy independent countries. Boatloads of important studies have documented how imperial countries have seized and pillaged the resources of mineral-rich and agriculturally productive countries, in consort with multi-national corporations. Financial critics have provided abundant …
The Tea Party is now clearly a distinctly minority faction. It’s prospects for obtaining future majority rule are small. The most radical (Todd Aiken) and shallow (Scott Brown) Senators lost. Reformers like Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin won. We now have powerful voices for progressive reform that can join figures …
The long run—was an expression made popular by the Annales School of French historians led by Fernand Braudel, who coined the phrase in 1958. The basic argument of this school is that the proper concern of historians should be the analysis of structures that lie at the base of …
Adversity can debilitate and defeat a lesser soul. But for those with the inner strength to make the climb, new heights can beckon. Along the way—especially for a musician—it helps to have an other-worldly talent, a gift that combines decades of hard work with those inexplicable powers that come from …
Herbert Bix is a Professor of History at Binghamton University, New York. A noted Asian/Japanese scholar, he writes often on issues of war and America’s empire. His books include “Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590 – 1884,” acclaimed as one of the best ever on peasant rebellions in premodern societies. His …
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On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its surrender. On September 2, WW II officially ended. Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu’s formalized it aboard the USS Missouri. Both dates signify VJ (Victory over Japan) or VP (Victory in the Pacific) Day. End of war meant occupation. …
Interview with Deepa Kumar on her recent book “Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire” and Stephen Lendman on the imperial wars in Libya and Syria. Related articles Project Censored – Corporate Personhood – 08/03/12 Progressive Radio News Hour – Mohammad Marandi – 08/02/12 Project Censored – The Global 1%: Exposing …
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This study asks: Who are the the world’s One percent power elite? And to what extent do they operate in unison for their own private gains over benefits for the 99 percent? We examine a sample of the 1 percent: the extractor sector, whose companies are on the ground extracting …
A couple of decades ago, upon returning to Atlanta, Georgia, after spending a year abroad, I would frequent an independent bookshop that contained a small coffee shop/cafe, where I would sip tea, read books and periodicals, and engage in the nearly extinct art of long form face-to-face verbal discourse …
Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s … Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s … Libya 2011 … Syria 2012 … In military conflicts in each of these countries the United States and al Qaeda (or one of its associates) have been on the same side.1 What does this tell us …
The British empire, George Orwell wrote, was “despotism with theft as its final object”. So what has made imperialism an intellectual fashion in our own time, reopening hoary disputes about whether it was good or bad? After five years as a colonial policeman in Burma, where he found himself …
Which came first, the oil business or the war machine that protects it? Who started this madness, the military that consumes so much of the oil or the corporations that distribute and profit from the filthy stuff? An answer of sorts can be found in Timothy Mitchell’s book, “Carbon Democracy: …
By Chris Hedges In Robert E. Gamer’s book “The Developing Nations”is a chapter called “Why Men Do Not Revolt.” In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is misplaced. They vent their fury on a political puppet, someone who masks colonial power, a …
by Stephen Lendman, Host of Progressive Radio News Hour Replicating post-WW II occupations is planned. Sixty-seven years after war’s end, US troops still occupy Germany, Japan and Korea. They’re part of America’s growing empire of bases. Status of forces (SOFA) agreements establish the framework under which US forces operate abroad. …