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WAR IS A RACKET; Let's focus on and promote peace instead
May 31, 2009
Ron Paul-- "War Is a Racket"-- (The Revolution Continues) [Video]

US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Ron Paul, ethics, war ) 
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Ron Paul continues to deliver his message. Maybe that's because he actually has something to say and it committed to it. A rarity in US politics.
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Posted: May 31, 2009 3:38am
Why does US Pentagon Need 6,700 Military Bases?
Mar 26, 2006
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1181


 
"According to the Defense Department's annual "Base Structure Report" for fiscal year 2003, which itemizes foreign and domestic U.S. military real estate, the Pentagon currently owns or rents 702 overseas bases in about 130 countries and HAS another 6,000 bases in the United States and its territories."
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Posted: Mar 26, 2006 9:14pm
The End Of The Bush Empire
Mar 9, 2006




"The steady erosion of President Bush's popularity is the result of two primary factors: price-competitive guerilla weaponry in Iraq and price-competitive guerilla journalism in America. There is nothing he can do about either.


This marks the end of empire – not just the American empire, but empire as a system of international coercion. The world has been unable to eliminate empire as a form of political organization ever since the days of Assyria. Now that system is doomed. It is ending in the same geographical region where it began.


The central factor of the demise of empire is cost. It costs too much to organize an empire in comparison to the cost of undermining it. When costs change, production changes. When costs rise, less is demanded. The costs of empire have risen to a level where its organizational dynamics are negative. When costs fall, more is demanded. The costs of resistance continue to fall.


Fourth-generation warfare is not merely guerilla warfare. Fourth-generation warfare is a war against the legitimacy of the occupying forces. The costs of maintaining legitimacy for an empire involve both force and propaganda. Both factors are under siege by modern technology, which is not only radically price competitive but is also feature competitive. Empire is neither price competitive nor feature competitive.


The handwriting for empire is on the wall. It has been weighed in the balance and found wanting.


It's about time."


Rest of article at: http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north441.html

 
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