Engineering Empire: An Introduction to the Intellectuals and Institutions of American Imperialism by Andrew Gavin Marshall

by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Writer, Dandelion Salad
http://andrewgavinmarshall.com
Originally posted at: The Hampton Institute
May 26, 2013

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The following is my first original piece for The Hampton Institute, “a working class think tank,” at which I chair the Geopolitics Division. This essay is meant as an introduction to modern American geopolitics, and a reference piece for future research and published material through The Hampton Institute’s Geopolitics Division.

Educating yourself about empire can be a challenging endeavor, especially since so much of the educational system is dedicated to avoiding the topic or justifying the actions of imperialism in the modern era.

Rule Britannia for Global Crimes by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
East Africa
Crossposted from PressTV
May 8, 2013

It’s an anthem that is usually sung with chest-thumping pride and misty eyes by British imperialists. “Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves”. This jingoistic celebration of Britain’s former global conquest may yet degenerate into “Rue Britannia, Britannia rues the waves”.

This is because, as The Guardian newspaper reports this week, the London government has at long last been forced into recognizing compensation payments for as many as 50,000 Kenyan nationals who were victims of torture and other crimes against humanity during that country’s independence struggle in the 1950s. The eventual bill for compensation could run up to tens of millions of pounds.

Generalissima Clinton Expanding the Empire by Ralph Nader

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Dandelion Salad

by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
February 8, 2013

Hillary Clinton has completed her four-year tenure as Secretary of State to the accolades of both Democratic and Republican Congressional champions of the budget-busting “military-industrial complex,” that President Eisenhower warned about in his farewell address. Behind the public relations sheen, the photo-opportunities with groups of poor people in the developing world, an ever more militarized State Department operated under Clinton’s leadership.

Michael Parenti: Making the World Safe for the Fortune 500, interviewed by Cindy Sheehan

by Cindy Sheehan
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
February 3, 2013

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with Michael Parenti
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
February 3, 2013

This week’s Soapbox features Michael Parenti.

Michael is an internationally known award-winning author and lecturer. He is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. His highly informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.

Michael Parenti: They Start Out By Demonizing Their Leader

with Michael Parenti
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
December 8, 2012

“The Empire feeds off the republic.” — Michael Parenti

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by Radio Free Kansas
December 8, 2012

Michael Parenti is an internationally known award-winning author and lecturer. He is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. His highly informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.

Lethal Hypocrisies—of Haunting Lily Pads by Branford Perry

By Branford Perry
Review of Gaither Stewart’s book, Lily Pad Roll: Journey to the Outposts of the Empire
Dandelion Salad
Hipographia
Oct. 27, 2012

Lily Pad Roll: Journey to the Outposts of the Empire
by Gaither Stewart
Trepper & Katz Impact Books, 344 pp, $12.45 (Paper)
Also available in electronic format at $6.99

I just finished a second reading of Gaither Stewart’s explosive and highly disturbing new novel, Lily Pad Roll, volume two of the Europe Trilogy.

At the end of such a novel I like to sit in silence, in semi-obscurity if possible, and let the atmosphere sweep over me in order to feel the sum effect of my reading and the residue and the mood I know I will feel come over me each time I think of the work in the future.

Noam Chomsky: The Emerging World Order: Its Roots, Our Legacy

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Dandelion Salad

with Noam Chomsky

Sep 19, 2012 by SISSAschool

On September 17, 2012, Noam Chomsky held a public lecture with the title “The Emerging World Order: its roots, our legacy” at Politeama Rossetti in Trieste.

Chris Hedges: The Disease of Empire

with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
September 15, 2012

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Sep 11, 2012 by lauraflanders

What happens when you force communities, families and entire ecosystems to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace? You get what Chris Hedges, co-author with Joe Sacco of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, calls “sacrifice zones.” From Appalachia to North Dakota to Camden, New Jersey, these zones, ravaged by the excesses of capitalism, prefigure our collective future.

The hidden, obvious, peculiar, fatal, omnipresent bias of American mainstream media concerning US foreign policy by William Blum

by William Blum
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.killinghope.org
August 31, 2012

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“We pledge allegiance to the republic for which America stands and not to its empire for which it is now suffering.” 1

Louis XVI needed a revolution, Napoleon needed two historic military defeats, the Spanish Empire in the New World needed multiple revolutions, the Russian Czar needed a communist revolution, the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires needed World War I, the Third Reich needed World War II, the Land of the Rising Sun needed two atomic bombs, the Portuguese Empire in Africa needed a military coup at home. What will the American Empire need?

The Passing of Gore Vidal: The End of an Era by Rocket Kirchner

English: Portrait of Gore Vidal by Juan F. Bastos (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

by Rocket Kirchner
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Rocket Kirchner (blog)
Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel)
August 2, 2012

The last man of letters in the American Empire on the last day of July breathed his last. This is truly the end of an Era.

Gore Vidal, prolific novelist, literary agent provocateur, and amazing man of letters lived in Italy most of his life so he could as he says, “See the American Empire more clearly”. Though Vidal was given to much hyperbole, acerbic wit, bitter pronunciations, one could say of him as Copelston said of Seneca, “He knew what he was talking about”.

Empire, Republic and The Neocons w/Michael Parenti, Tariq Ali and Peter Dale Scott (2008)

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with Michael Parenti
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
July 20, 2012

Jul 18, 2012 by GlobalForum

Dr. Agha Saeed speaks with authors Michael Parenti, Tariq Ali, and Peter Dale Scott on neocons and the future of the American Empire.

Michael Parenti: Privatization by Bombing, interviewed by Carl Boggs

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by Carl Boggs
with Michael Parenti
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
July 13, 2012

Noted political scientist Michael Parenti was recently interviewed by another noted political scientist, Carl Boggs. The interview originally appeared in the academic journal New Political Science, June 2012. It is presented here in its entirety.

Carl Boggs (CB): Your scholarly work has won extraordinary acclaim, both nationally and internationally, over a period of several decades.

Absurdity Rules the World by Siv O’Neall

by Siv O’Neall
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Axisoflogic.com, 13 July 2012
Lyon, France
15 July 2012

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The absurdity of the world today is so blinding that we can barely see through the fog to discern what went so wrong.

Plans had been spun for years in the dark underground caves by the enemies of man. The Neoconservatives had it all planned, but one factor was missing.

Propaganda had already been working its insidious misinformation. The mass media were already more than willing to play the game of Big Money.

Michael Parenti: Lesser of Two Evils?

with Michael Parenti
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
June 25, 2012

Abandoned church – Camden NJ
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by AkashaTempleRadio
Progress Toward Democracy
Blog Talk Radio

Brian Stetten and Ruthann Amarteifio, looking for Democracy!

Michael Parenti, http://www.michaelparenti.org, author of 23 books, is our guest.  He’ll be talking against the Empire, along with other current topics.

The Power Principle: Empire – Propaganda – Apocalypse (must-see)

Dandelion Salad

Warning

This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

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“A gripping, deeply informative account of the plunder, hypocrisy, and mass violence of plutocracy and empire; insightful, historically grounded and highly relevant to the events of today.” – Michael Parenti, Historian, Author The Face of Imperialism [at 1:24:00 in the 1st part]

May 23, 2012 by infiniteinfiniteinfi

Pt 1: Empire