McChrystal Scandal Shows Us the Military No Longer Protects America — It Guards Empire

By Frank Schaeffer | June 25, 2010 | [print_link] The Obama/McChrystal debacle is symptomatic of a wider divide — the widening estrangement between our civilian elites and our military. McChrystal deserved to be fired and has been. But this event is a symptom of a bigger problem. PHOTO: Stanley McChrystal, part of a class apart. General [...]

BAGEANT: Live from Planet Norte

Totalitarian democracy and the politics of plunder Editor’s Note: As one who has lived abroad at various points in his life—chiefly in Latin America and Europe—and as a person who has also lived most of his adult life in the United States and never ceases to be amazed at what Bageant details here so eloquently, [...]

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