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American Psycho: An Elite Exposed in an Exit Speech
If you would like to see just how sick the American elite really is – how morally depraved, how intellectually diseased, how addicted to the taste of human flesh, the scent of human blood, and the...
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The Courtier's Choice: Arthur Schlesinger and the Willing Executioners of...
(UPDATED BELOW.)The late Arthur Schlesinger was long regarded as one of the leading lights of the American Establishment: a great public intellectual, a prize-winning historian of the nation's...
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Fighting Back From the Hacks
As you may know, the regular Empire Burlesque site has been hit by a relentless series of cyber-attacks, which have taken down the site or hijacked it outright, over and over again in recent days. The...
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Another Act of Evil: Slow Murder at Gitmo
(NOTE: Temporarily blogging here until my regular site (www.chris-floyd.com) is freed from a hacker hijack.)One grows weary, so weary, of plowing through filth, day after day – the unspeakable,...
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No Country for Old Men: The Reality of Iran in the Shadow of War
(Note: Apologies for the broken links. We are working on fixing them now.)What will become of us without barbarians?Those people were some sort of a solution. – C.P. Cavafy, "Waiting for the...
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Worried Yet? Saudis Prepare for "Sudden Nuclear Hazards" After Cheney Visit
I. One Tick Closer to MidnightLast Friday, Dick Cheney was in Saudi Arabia for high-level meetings with the Saudi king and his ministers. On Saturday, it was revealed that the Saudi Shura Council --...
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Torturegate: Truth, But No Consequences
This has been one of the most extraordinary weeks in modern American history. The many isolated streams of evidence about the Bush Administration's torture system – and the direct responsibility of the...
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Big Dog, Little Tail: The American Elite Resolves for War on Iran
I.Let's be clear about one thing: Israel will not attack Iran without the full knowledge and approval of the United States government. The trigger of the "warning shot" of Israel's long-range...
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Disorderly Conduct: Subverting the Bipartisan Paradigm on Iraq
William Pfaff is one of the sanest writers in the mainstream media, and in his latest piece in the International Herald Tribune, he succinctly subverts the arguments for a continuing American presence...
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Surging Into Syria: American Incursion Opens New Front in Quagmire
Taking a page from the new bipartisan strategy now being employed in Afghanistan -- waging cross-border military raids into sovereign countries in order to protect a failing military occupation in a...
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Moloch's Altar: Child Sacrifice and the War on Terror
"Tell me yourself, I challenge you—answer. Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was...
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Cranks, Kleptocrats and Killers: The "Good War" on the Ground
While dozens of innocent people continue to die each week in the political and sectarian violence unleashed in Iraq by America's invasion and continuing occupation, the main attention of the bipartisan...
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Mengele's Hairball
Mengele's HairballI am glad to learnfrom Tuesday's Guardianthat Mengele suffered"intense abdominal pain"in the last yearsof his long life; glad, that his gut was clottedwith a hairball formedfrom the...
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Obama's Finest Hour: Killing Innocent People for "Made-Up Crap"
If ever I am tempted by the siren songs of my tribal past as a deep-fried, yellow-dawg Democrat, and begin to feel any faint, atavistic stirrings of sympathy for the old gang, I simply think of things...
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The Good Corporal
This one goes out to Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, Daniel Ellsberg, Sibel Edmonds, and "all those who speak the hard truth to the state."The Good CorporalGood corporal, good corporal, now what have...
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The Downward Road is Crowded
A few quick takes, whilst we seek to repair the damage from the latest attack on the main site.Money for Old RopeThis is what $70 billion a year in whiz-bang, top-shelf "intelligence" buys you: Taliban...
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The FIRE Next Time: End-Game for the Elite’s One-Way Class War
Michael Hudson has consistently been one of the best guides through the labyrinth of lies that surround the monumental act of elite thievery known as the “economic crisis.”Patiently and perceptively,...
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"Why Aren't You Dead Yet?" The Enlightened War Policies of the Peace Laureate
One of the most important stories of the day continues to be almost universally ignored, both by the corporate media and most 'progressive' bloggers, eternally absorbed with the shallow and pointless...
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Mondo Inferno: The Endless Echoes of America's WMD Atrocity
For years, I have been writing about the American use of chemical weapons in the savage assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah in late 2004. The results of this deployment of WMD began emerging a few...
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Silent Surge: A Shocking Act of Political Violence
Americans showed their remarkable collective wisdom once again last week, when a shocking act of violence was met with a steady calm across the political spectrum. Indeed, it seemed the entire country...
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Kairos in Cairo: Seizing the Moment of Moral Courage
I was among the million people who marched through London on February 15, 2003, to protest the imminent invasion of Iraq. I don't think anyone in the crowd thought a single march would stop the...
View ArticlePermanent Wave: The Lies About "Living With Covid"
Sitting here in my 8th day of isolation with symptoms barely abated, let me say that "living with Covid" in the sense now being used in the US and UK – i.e., dropping even the pretense of fighting the...
View ArticleNot Back in the USSR: Putin Bashes Communists for Betraying Russian...
I’m surprised more attention hasn't been paid to the virulently anti-Soviet nature of Putin’s speech justifying his attack on Ukraine. The general idea has been that Putin hankers to restore the Soviet...
View ArticleInfernal Affairs: Fallujah Revisited in Ukraine
The massive, mad destruction being inflicted across Ukraine brings to mind this passage from Italo Calvino, which I'd quoted in an article I wrote about George W. Bush's Guernica-like destruction of...
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