Category Archives: globalization/exceptionalism

Sonali Kolhatkar: I Have Never Stood Up for the National Anthem—and Never Will. read

David Swanson, Protests of National Anthem Restore My Faith in Humanity. read

Joe Amon, The history of the national anthem in sports (2011). read

Indispensable Nation: Hillary Clinton Pitches American Exceptionalism (31 min). watch

William Robin, Colin Kaepernick and the Radical Uses of “The Star-Spangled Banner” read

theintercept.com, Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know: The National Anthem Is a Celebration of Slavery. read

Katie Herzog on TransCanada’s suit and “free trade.” read

Thom Engelhardt on the real meaning of Trump and his “great again). Since Obama, “exceptionalism redivivus.” read

Saudi gifts to Obama. read

IMF forgives Ukraine debt. read

Paul Carig Roberts calls war on terror “a hoax.” “The American people were too trusting and too gullible and, consequently, Americans were easily betrayed by Washington and by the presstitute media. read

George Takei on Paris attacks. Do not dehumanize the attackers. read

Michael Vlahos. “America is a religion.” This long and brilliant article reminds us of many things we choose to overlook. America’s traditional “religions” are all auxiliary and supplemental identity-agents of the American religion, embraced and applauded when they support the two dominant sects, and pushed aside when they fail to play the game straight.” read

Michael Vlahos on “terrorism” identity. “American politicians have long appropriated rhetoric from “church” religion for the political purposes of equally sacred civil religion.” read

Robert Crawford: America is NOT a “Christian nation.” read

Robert Scheer int. on “The Pornography of Power: by Paul Jay. read

Peter Bloom exposes the “fairy tale” surrounding Osama and extremism. “The War on Terror is built on a legacy of past imperialism that still scars the Middle East and Asia today. Beginning in the late 18th century, Western powers had almost completely colonized the region for its resources and their own political advantage. ‘By the early twentieth century,’ Bernard Lewis writes in the New Yorker, ‘almost the entire Muslim world had been incorporated into the four European empires of Britain, France, Russia, and the Netherlands.’” read

Nadia Pruois: Domestic terrorists kill more in US than do jihadists. read

Glenn Greenwald on US exaggeration of social issues to cover our imperialism. read