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Paul Rogers: Dangerous Signals in Trump’s State of the Union Address
February 6, 2018
In this trenchant analysis, Professor Paul Rogers, who has been cataloguing the manifest failures of the “war on terror” since its inception, demonstrates how President Trump appears determined to continue this folly. [George W. Bush] crafted not a new American century leading to a more peaceful world, but a wasteland: sixteen years of war, hundreds of […]
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Professor Paul Rogers on the Trump wars era
December 5, 2017
In his latest article, The Trump wars era (OpenDemocracy.net, 30 November 2017), Professor Paul Rogers, International Security Advisor at Open Democracy, outlines the terrifying augmentation of military force by the Trump administration. Because of its importance, we include it below in its entirety. “A new era is opening almost by stealth. Its defining feature is military expansion, ordered […]
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President Donald “Blowback” Trump: From Iraq to America
March 20, 2017
Nation Fellow Tom Engelhardt traces the rise of Donald J. Trump from the blowback caused by the illegal 2003 American invasion of Iraq. See “If You Want to Know Where Donald Trump Came From, Look to Iraq” (The Nation, 16 March 2017). While this might not be the entire answer, it does help explain the […]
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Our disastrous military interventions
April 8, 2016
Gar Pardy is a Rideau Institute Senior Adviser. This article was originally published in Embassy News on Wed. April 6th, 2016. There can be no expectation that our military interventions will do more good than the obvious disaster they are. We spiral into confusion and frustration amid the consequences of our military interventions in places […]
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