Roosevelts "New Deal", Kennedys "New Frontier", LBJs "Great Society", Obamas ? Månlandningen 1969. Änkan, Lady Bird Johnson, har avlidit. (McNamara deceived LBJ on Vietnam - berättar Gareth Porter på TRNN, baserande sig på bandupptagningar från bibliotekets arkiv.)
Taking lessons from a historical pattern called "Thucydides's Trap," political scientist Graham Allison shows why a rising China and a dominant United States...
National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies seeks to prioritize peace, shared prosperity, and economic security for all in our nation's decision making. We are the people's guide to the federal budget. In 2014, NPP was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of our pioneering work to track federal spending on the military and promote a U.S. federal budget that represents Americans' priorities, including funding for people's issues such as inequality, unemployment, education, health and the need to build a green economy. In 2017, we joined the non-profit Institute for Policy Studies as an independent project.
Here is a piece that Cockburn and I wrote in 1999 about a psychiatric evaluation of McCain underwent while a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. The psych0logical portrait drawn by Spanish psychiatrist Fernando Barral is that of a deeply narcissistic personality, cold, hardened and largely devoid of human empathy, a man who seemed to view the bombing of civilian populations as a kind of sport. These aggressive personality traits have also characterized his nasty political career. –JSC
U.S. Military has left its toxic legacy throughout the world in the form of depleted uranium, oil, jet fuel, pesticides, defoliants like Agent Orange and lead
Article in the Intercept 15 Sept, 2019, features Rabindranath Tagore and Neta Craword's (Boston university) study "Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War"
Neta C. Crawford1 Boston University
Jan Öberg 25.9.19: "...entire systems approaching existential breakdown – and not because of foreign adversaries but because of their own morally corrupt actions and policies – or system fatique: systems so worn out and tired (of itself, too) that the don’t have the energy needed for re-vitalization.
Meroe Park (SFS’89), former executive director of the CIA, will provide faculty, students and university leaders with insights and perspectives as the university’s newest Distinguished Executive-in-Residence.
The Georgetown alumna also served as the acting CIA director for a short time in 2017, maintaining the agency’s operations and providing a smooth transition for Mike Pompeo to take the helm as the new director.
As Distinguished Executive-in-Residence at Georgetown, she will provide faculty, students and university leaders with insights and perspectives based on her lengthy career in public service.
Former FBI director Robert Mueller and former U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel have held past residencies.
Park, a 27-year veteran of the agency, served in the position from 2013 to 2017 – acting as the agency’s chief operating officer.
In that role, she managed the day-to-day operations of the agency, guided the organization through its largest organizational and cultural change, modernized the agency’s information technology systems and helped revamp the CIA’s talent management and development system.
by Mary Beaudoin
November 21, 2019 · by Rise Up Times · in capitalist system, International, manufacturing consent, Media, U.S. Foreign Policy · 2 Comments
But it’s not just the British that protesters appealed to for support. American flags were also prominent in street protests. The leader of the Hong Kong activist organization Demosistō, Joshua Wong, called for outside intervention by the U.S., Western Europe, and Japan to “liberate Hong Kong.”
"In the original version of the 2017 photograph, taken by Getty Images photographer Mario Tama, the street is packed with marchers carrying a variety of signs, with the Capitol in the background. In the Archives version, at least four of those signs are altered."
No one from the White House had to threaten the Archives into obscuring anti-Trump signs, because officials apparently internalized the political hazards.