Category: Politics
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Cloaking the U.S. Invasion of the Dominican Republic with Legitimacy
Hi, In my spare time, I like to skim U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian site and you should too. Our leaders have always been very open about their intentions. There’s not need for conspiracy theories when there’s a written record for all to read. I do find it very strange that the U.S. has…
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Timeline of U.S. Presidential Foreign Policy Doctrines
Hi, I’d like to review U.S. presidential doctrines throughout history. I think it important to understand just how consistent and unbashfully public American leaders have been about their quest for empire. Monroe Doctrine (1823) The Monroe Doctrine was expressed during President Monroe’s seventh annual message to Congress, December 2, 1823. The statement articulated United States’ policy on the…
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How the U.S. Supported the Argentinian “Dirty War”
The Argentinian Dirty War is the name used by the military junta of Argentina for the period of United States-backed state terrorism in Argentina from 1976 to 1983 as a part of Operation Condor, during which military security forces and right-wing death squads hunted down any political dissidents and anyone believed to be associated with…
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Jefferson on Refreshing the Tree of Liberty
From Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 13 November 1787 (Paris): …can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always,…
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The Iron Law of Oligarchy by Robert Michels
It’s time for some RealPolitik! Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy is a book by the sociologist Robert Michels, published in 1911 and first introducing the concept of iron law of oligarchy. This work analyses the power structures of organizations such as political parties and trade unions. Michels’s main…
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The Cruelty Behind the Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, and further developed on July 4, 1948, when he pledged to contain threats in Greece and Turkey. Here are the…
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CFR and State Department Discussions on “World Control”
Let’s talk RealPolitik. During WWII, it was internally assumed that the U.S. would emerge from the war as the world’s dominant power. One of the primary war aims of the war was to organize a “Grand Area” to serve the needs of the American economy. In 1939, the U.S. State Department along with members of the Council…
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The Christian Communist Manifesto
Hi, In the past, I’ve argued in that Karl Marx unfairly gets a bad reputation for simply writing down what most people already knew. Marx’s ideas on wage slavery, capital, exploitation, and private property were nothing new and are, in fact, centuries old. It’s time to read the writings of the True Levellers (a.k.a. Diggers)…