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A man grieves during a mass funeral for members of a family was killed in a U.S. drone airstrike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (Photo: Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times) As a parting shot, on its way out of Afghanistan, the United States military launched a drone attack that the Pentagon called a “righteous […]
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A Parable of (All-American) Violence – Accountability and the War of Terror
September 24th, 2021 
Awake Goy As a religious studies professor, I know a parable when I see one. Consider the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and the final events in this country’s war in Afghanistan as just such a parable taken directly from the history of our moment. The heart-wrenching last days of that war amounted to a cautionary […]
The U.S. Military, Post-Afghanistan – Can We Finally Give Peace A Chance?
September 20th, 2021 Awake Goy Handover ceremony at Camp Anthonic, from US Army to Afghan Special Forces, Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 2, 2021. Yoda, the Jedi Master in the Star Wars films, once pointed out that the future is all too difficult to see and it’s hard to deny his insight. Yet I’d argue that, when it comes to the U.S. military […]
Quagmire of American Imperialism in Afghanistan and Beyond
September 11th, 2021 Awake Goy Handover ceremony at Camp Anthonic, from US Army to Afghan Special Forces, Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 2, 2021. Many commentators from different ideological orientations provide a false equivalence of American withdrawal from Afghanistan with the fall of Saigon. It is false because American imperialism was thoroughly defeated by the revolutionary programmes and fighting spirit of […]
The Decline and Fall of the Roman… Whoops!… American Empire
September 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Handover ceremony at Camp Anthonic, from US Army to Afghan Special Forces, Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 2, 2021. They weren’t kidding when they called Afghanistan the “graveyard of empires.” Indeed, that cemetery has just taken another imperial body. And it wasn’t pretty, was it? Not that anyone should be surprised. Even after 20 years of preparation, […]
Africa’s Uprising Is Frozen, Its Cry Swollen With Hope
September 4th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Bertina Lopes (Mozambique), Dimensão (‘Dimension’), 1972. On 26 August, two deadly attacks on the perimeter of Kabul’s international airport killed over a hundred people, including a dozen US soldiers. The bombings struck people desperate to enter the airport and flee Afghanistan. Not long afterwards, the Islamic State of Khorasan (IS-K) took credit for […]
Stakes in Afghanistan!
August 19th, 2021 Awake Goy Speculations resting on numerous analyses are being voiced on what does withdrawal of United States from Afghanistan and take-over by Taliban really indicate? The former aspect is being viewed by most as defeat of the Superpower and the latter as probable return of terrorism to the country spelling distress for most, particularly women. Let us […]
Biden’s Afghanistan speech: America’s criminal war ends in debacle
August 17th, 2021 Awake Goy On Monday afternoon, US President Joe Biden delivered a nationally televised address in response to the collapse of the US-backed puppet government in Afghanistan. The scale and historical impact of the catastrophe suffered by American imperialism in Afghanistan, which in many respects exceeds even its defeat in the Vietnam War, found expression in the speech, […]
Venezuela Rejects Accusations Of Former ICC Prosecutor
August 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: International Criminal Court headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. This Thursday, August 12, Venezuela’s Public Ministry (MP) rejected as worthless the accusations issued by the former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, after she irresponsibly ignored the collaboration of the Venezuelan authorities in the Venezuela I case filed by the near-defunct […]
US Foreign Policy Adrift: Why Washington No Longer Calling the Shots
August 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Jonah Goldberg and Michael Ledeen have much in common. They are both writers and also cheerleaders for military interventions and, often, for frivolous wars. Writing in the conservative rag, The National Review, months before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Goldberg paraphrased a statement which he attributed to Ledeen with reference to the interventionist […]
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No Comments »Moral Injury and the Forever Wars: What Americans Don’t Want to Hear
August 4th, 2021 Awake Goy This summer, it seemed as if we Americans couldn’t wait to return to our traditional July 4th festivities. Haven’t we all been looking for something to celebrate? The church chimes in my community rang out battle hymns for about a week. The utility poles in my neighborhood were covered with “Hometown Hero” banners hanging proudly, sporting the […]
Who Authorized America’s Wars? And Why They Never End
July 15th, 2021 Awake Goy Sometimes, as I consider America’s never-ending wars of this century, I can’t help thinking of those lyrics from the Edwin Starr song, “(War, huh) Yeah! (What is it good for?) Absolutely nothing!” I mean, remind me, what good have those disastrous, failed, still largely ongoing conflicts done for this country? Or for you? Or for […]
Bomb Cuba, and a story to compare Cuba
July 15th, 2021 Awake Goy There’s now call to bomb Cuba – a suggestion from the land of inequality, the Empire. Francis Suarez, Mayor of Miami, has called for US military intervention in Cuba. The mayor has cited many examples – from Panama to Kosovo. Mr. Suarez claims – all US attacks went smoothly. An act to feel proud by […]
Washington’s kiss of death
July 9th, 2021 Awake Goy Handover ceremony at Camp Anthonic, from US Army to Afghan Special Forces, Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 2, 2021. Rudyard Kipling, Bard of Empire, wrote a poem titled “The White Man’s Burden”. Written in February 1899, Kipling urged the US to colonize the Philippines and take up the burden of the Empire. A couplet reads: “Your […]
America- Led NATO in Afghanistan: Crimes against Humanity Call for Accountability
July 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Baz Ratner/Reuters US troops in Afghanistan, June 2011 “We Are Going to Lose the War in Afghanistan and it will Help Bankrupt us. One of our major strategic blunders in Afghanistan was not to have recognized that both Great Britain and the Soviet Union attempted to pacify Afghanistan using the same military methods as ours […]
Posted in imperialism Tags: accountability, Afghanistan, against, america, Crimes, humanity No Comments »Biden Acknowledges “Over The Horizon” Air Attacks Planned Against Taliban
July 5th, 2021 Awake Goy “Over-the-horizon” air operations, possibly directed at the Taliban, may rely very heavily on drone assassination and drone targeting for manned aircraft. On July 2, fleeing questions from reporters about U.S. plans in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden sought refuge behind the July 4th Independence Day holiday, yet obliquely acknowledged that the U.S. will use some level of […]
Posted in imperialism Tags: acknowledges, against, attacks, biden, horizon, planned, Taliban No Comments »Mourn Not Honor Americans Who Died in Dishonorable ‘Mistaken’ Wars for GOP DEMS & Wall St. Deep State
May 30th, 2021 Awake Goy Humankind is in an ugly period of suffering in the bloody hands of imbecilic investors in war, who own the American government and media and who cannot stop themselves from planning war, even terminal nuclear war, since they know that wars make money. Their funded elected politicians and media praise war on Memorial […]
Why Imperialism May Be In Its Most Dangerous Phase Now; Resistance Needs Peaceful Path of High Creativity
May 9th, 2021 Awake Goy Silently and stealthily, unannounced and unheralded, imperialism may have already entered its most dangerous phase. Ironically this dangerous phase may not necessarily be linked to any definite evidence of increasing strength of imperialism. In fact the forces of imperialism have become so dangerous precisely because these are increasingly weaker and vulnerable in some respects, yet […]
Posted in imperialism Tags: creativity, dangerous, imperialism, needs, peaceful, phase, Resistance No Comments »American-Style War ’til the End of Time?
April 29th, 2021 Awake Goy Here’s the strange thing in an ever-stranger world: I was born in July 1944 in the midst of a devastating world war. That war ended in August 1945 with the atomic obliteration of two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by the most devastating bombs in history up to that moment, given the sweet code names “Little Boy” […]
US Troop Build Up Threatens Resource War In The Arctic
April 28th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Michael H. Lee. The U.S. military has announced its intention to expand its presence in the Arctic. This perfectly highlights why the fight against climate change must be anti-imperialist. While plenty of headlines are being dedicated to the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, an increase of U.S. forces in another area has gone […]
The Graveyard of Empires Redux
April 26th, 2021 Awake Goy America’s Ruinous Pursuit of Mission Impossible in Afghanistan A new study from Brown University’s Costs of War Project found that the U.S. “War on Terror” has killed half a million people in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. (Photo: Spc. Phillip McTaggart/Flickr/cc) On May 1st, the date Donald Trump signed onto for the withdrawal of the remaining 3,500 American troops from […]
US Involvement in the Yemen War: A Tale of Hypocrisy
April 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy Brian Terrell at left, with Joan Pleune, Felton Davis and Bud Courtney, blocking the US Mission to the UN, December, 2017, by Joanne Kennedy The battle for Marib is escalating. The city, which hosts over 2 million civilians – including an estimated 1 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) – is the last military stronghold of […]
Biden’s Appeasement of Hawks and Neocons Is Crippling His Diplomacy
April 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy Written by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Photo credit: haramjedder.blogspot.com – Biden with NATO’s Stoltenberg President Biden took office promising a new era of American international leadership and diplomacy. But with a few exceptions, he has so far allowed self-serving foreign allies, hawkish U.S. interest groups and his own imperial delusions to undermine […]
Biden’s Drone Wars
April 20th, 2021 Awake Goy Activists Brian Terrell and Ghulam Hussein Ahmadi at the Border Free Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. Graffiti by Kabul Knight, photo by Hakim On Thursday, April 15, the New York Times posted an article headed, “How the U.S. Plans to Fight From Afar After Troops Exit Afghanistan,” just in case anyone misunderstood the previous day’s headline, […]
Kapos of the American Empire
April 15th, 2021 Awake Goy Wikipedia defines Kapos , which originated from the German concentration camps, as the following: Kapos were inmates of Nazi camps who were appointed as guards to oversee other prisoners in various tasks. There were three main types of Kapos : work supervisors, block elders, and camp administrators. Well, this American empire has its own Kapos. […]
Neo-Imperialism and Indigenous People
April 12th, 2021 Awake Goy “Suppose there are ten people in this room. Seven are starving, and one is winning medals, and two are doing OK. And I say, ‘Look at these seven people who are starving,’ and you say, ‘Oh, don’t be so negative, no, things are not so bad – look at the other three.’ Really?” Arundhati […]
“The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World”
April 5th, 2021 Awake Goy Fifty-four years ago, standing at the pulpit of Riverside Church in New York City, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his now-famous “Beyond Vietnam” sermon. For the first time in public, he expressed in vehement terms his opposition to the American war in Vietnam. He saw clearly that a foreign policy defined by aggression hurt the […]
A Brief history of Neo-imperialism-History and Methods
April 4th, 2021 Awake Goy (Photo: Mr. Fish / Truthdig) Till the 1960’s, Neoliberalism had the same status in economics as Wahhabism (a supremacist, fundamentalist and intolerant version of Islam) had in Islam. (1). How it became the guiding principle of Western countries is an interesting question. Neoliberalism claims that human beings are best served by liberating the entrepreneurial class through strong private property […]
Like Floyd Vietnamese Were Victims of a “Flourishing US Culture of Excessive Force Racism & Impunity”
April 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy The 27 $million to the family of George Floyd answering allegations that his civil rights were violated within a flourishing American culture of excessive force, racism and impunity by implication puts protective value on all lives in the USA. Remaining valueless are the millions of lives taken overseas by Americans, including by Black GIs who […]
Posted in George Floyd, imperialism Tags: Culture, excessive, flourishing, floyd, force, victims, vietnamese No Comments »Washington’s Delusion of Endless World Dominion
March 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy Empires live and die by their illusions. Visions of empowerment can inspire nations to scale the heights of global hegemony. Similarly, however, illusions of omnipotence can send fading empires crashing into oblivion. So it was with Great Britain in the 1950s and so it may be with the United States today. By 1956, Britain had […]
