Even though the American people may not know what has been done in their name, those on the receiving end certainly do: they include the people of Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), Cuba (1959 to the pres...
On this issue, the United States is an outlaw, waiting to be brought to justice.
Ronald Steel noted, Unlike Rome, we have not exploited our empire. On the contrary, our empire has exploited us, making enormous drains on our resources and energies.
In a sense, blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows. Although people usually know what they have sown, our national experience of blowback is seldom imagined in such...
The Nature of Political Terrorism The suicidal assassins of September 11, 2001, did not attack America, as political leaders and news media in the United States have tried to maintain; they attacked A...
Even an empire cannot control the long-term effects of its policies. That is the essence of blowback.
Economic relations with our East Asian satellites have, for example, hollowed out our domestic manufacturing industries and led us into a reliance on finance capitalism, whose appearance has in the pa...
Americans generally think of Pol Pot as some kind of unique, self-generated monster and his killing fields as an inexplicable atavism totally divorced from civilization. But without the United States...
As explained by Carlos Marighella, the Brazilian guerrilla leader whose writings influenced political terrorists in the 1960s and 1970s, if a government can be provoked into a purely military response...
It is time to realize, however, that the real dangers to America today come not from the newly rich people of East Asia but from our own ideological rigidity, our deep-seated belief in our own propaga...