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Progressive Radio News Hour – John Kozy -02/17/13

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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“Legal Imperialism” and International Law: Legal Foundations for War Crimes, Debt Collection and Colonization

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 …

Progressive Radio News Hour – Herbert Dix – 09/01/12

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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Project Censored – Islamophobia – 08/17/12

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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David Swanson — Klepetromilitatorship

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: …

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Chris Hedges – Colonized by Corporations

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 …

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Afghanistan: Permanent Occupation Planned

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. …