it is dochs oars, sûnt 2001

A Former Spear-carrier for the Empire

One of the things I dislike about academic social science is this tendency to mesh it all in framework by people who don't really know what they're talking about. Cassandra was the only social scientist who was any good, ...

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A Former Spear-carrier for the Empire ii

"In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the ...

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A Former Spear-carrier for the Empire iii

On the evidence contained in Coll's book Ghost Wars, neither the Americans nor their victims in numerous Muslim and Third World countries will ever know peace until the Central Intelligence Agency has been abolished. It should by now be generally ...

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A Former Spear-carrier for the Empire iv

Chalmer Johnson again, as several times before on this weblog, interviewed on Tom's Dispatch: Yes, the Cold War was not the clean-cut conflict between totalitarian and democratic values that we had claimed it to be. You can make something of a ...

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A Former Spear-carrier for the Empire [1931 – 2010]

In de dagen na 9/11, toen heel de wereld veel te overstuur was naar mijn zin, zocht ik om rede. In Nederland was Maarten van Rossem éen van de weinigen die durfde te relativeren; zelfs al droeg hij daarbij niet ...

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A Former Spear-carrier for the Empire | 4

Political science has failed hopelessly. It emits no interesting signal in the world today, and these things should be being studied. My argument would be [that] our mistakes, and the invitation to Nemesis, began with the collapse of the Soviet ...

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A Former Spear-carrier for the Empire | 5

an incompetent or unscrupulous intelligence agency can be as great a threat to national security as not having one at all. Chalmers Johnson, 'The Life and Times of the CIA'

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A Former Spear-carrier for the Empire | 6

One of the severe side effects of imperialism in its advanced stages seems to be that it rots the brains of the imperialists. They start believing that they are the bearers of civilization, the bringers of light to "primitives" and ...

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A Former Spear-carrier for the Empire | 7

Chalmers Johnson adds some numbers to the notion that standing armies are parasitic forces, guzzling economic power: Between the 1940s and 1996, the United States spent at least $5.8 trillion on the development, testing, and construction of nuclear bombs. By 1967, ...

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Overwegingen | WikiLeaks i

Ideaal aan een weblog is de vrijheid om er ongecensureerd, en zonder last of ruggespraak, opinies op te publiceren over de actualiteit. Helaas komt het zelden voor dat ik vrijwel direct publicabele meningen heb. Ik ken doorgaans de feiten niet ...

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Overwegingen | WikiLeaks v

Hoe lang zal het nog duren voor de VS WikiLeaks tot een terroristische organisatie uitroept? Er bestond in democratieën altijd een zeker evenwicht tussen machthebbers en de media om het elkaar niet al te lastig te maken. Als ...

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Quotes

[Žižek's] In Defense of Lost Causes is a frenetic, eclectic parody of intellectual scholarship, by one so assured in his grasp of the finer points of Kafka or John le Carré that he can afford to ham it up a ...

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Short [Militarism]

At the risk of sounding depressed: US Federal government spends 68 cents of each budgeted dollar on defense Chalmers Johnson looks at the signs, and predicts: the conversion of the USA to a military empire looms and to balance this all, Thomas P.M. ...

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Status Quo
week 38

Amerikaanse opiniewebsites hebben niet meer dezelfde aantrekkingskracht op me als tien jaar terug. Als ik nog een site volg is dat via de RSS-feed, van een afstandje. Waarbij doorgaans weken kunnen passeren voordat ik eens doorclick naar de tekst online. Maar ...

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