Challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 6:21 am
“Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing “rogue states,” opposing “Islamic fundamentalism,” or containing China.” -- Walden Bello, sociologist and author, International Socialist Review, Aug/Sep 2001, p8
“We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in job function email list straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.” -- George Kennan, head of U.S. State Department Policy Planning Staff, 1948
“But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. U.S. national security, as preached by U.S. leaders, is the security of the capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people.” -- Philip Agee, CIA Diary, p562
“If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.” -- Secretary of State Madelaine Albright describing her vision of America's role in the world
“We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in job function email list straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.” -- George Kennan, head of U.S. State Department Policy Planning Staff, 1948
“But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. U.S. national security, as preached by U.S. leaders, is the security of the capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people.” -- Philip Agee, CIA Diary, p562
“If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.” -- Secretary of State Madelaine Albright describing her vision of America's role in the world