The Military as a Security Risk (tags)
You cannot have both democracy and concentration of wealth, Justice Brandeis warned. 20% of military spending is for defense; the rest is for empire. Endless war is not a future but the denial of a future. To Hitler, the soldier was the only model of courage.
El imperio capitalista y el estado nación: ¿Un nuevo imperialismo norteamericano? (tags)
Antes de la última guerra en Irak, cualquiera que acusara a los Estados Unidos de imperialismo era probable que se encontrara con la objeción de que los EE.UU. no ocupa ningún territorio colonial en ningún lugar del mundo. Ahora que es muy visible en Irak, todo parece haber cambiado de la noche a la mañana.
I. Wallerstein: La Debilidad Norteamericana y la lucha por la Hegemonía (tags)
Articulo destacado en Panorama Internacional.
Liberals vs. Conservatives? It's the Corruption, Stupid (tags)
"...how about contrasting our noble beginnings to where we stand today? Thomas Jefferson's vision for our nation is imbued with John Locke's interpretation of government of, by and for the people. "Great mistakes in the ruling part, will be borne by the people without mutiny or murmur," Locke wrote. "But if a long train of abuses. . . . all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people . . . it is not to be wondered that they should then rouse themselves, and endeavorto put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the end for which government was at first erected."