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The Perfect Lean, Mean, Macho Machine

Marco Lanzagorta, PopMatters. April 6, 2008.
"Die Hard" is a militaristic fantasy that serves as an allegory for an outnumbered and out-gunned America.

40 Years Later, Martin Luther King Is Still Silenced

Jeff Cohen, AlterNet. April 5, 2008.
In his last year of life King condemned American militarism. But we don't see that in retrospectives.

The Iraq War Is Wrong. Why Can't Candidates Admit It?

Norman Solomon, AlterNet. March 4, 2008.
The only way for Democrats to challenge U.S. militarism is to condemn the Iraq war as inherently immoral.

America Loves Peace? Odd, Since We're Always at War

David Michael Green, AlterNet. February 28, 2008.
We've been in conflict for about half the period between World War II and the present but consider ourselves a "peace-loving" nation.

Militarism Is Deeply Entrenched in the American Psyche

William Astore, Tomdispatch.com. February 6, 2008.
The military is not from Mars. We must understand its endless appeal if we ever hope to change it.

Permanent Bases the World Over: Behold the American Empire

Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. June 14, 2007.
In Iraq and beyond, America's empire of permanent bases grows at an alarming pace.

Can We End the American Empire Before It Ends Us?

Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. May 17, 2007.
Brilliant historian and essayist Chalmers Johnson argues that unless we face up to the tremendous strain our empire is having on America, we will lose our democracy, and then it will not matter much what else we lose.