US intervention
Articles about US military intervention abroad.
21. Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus
Halfway through the twentieth century, the historian Richard Hofstadter, in his book The American
Political Tradition, examined our important national leaders, from Jefferson and Jackson to Herbert
Hoover and the two Roosevelts—Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives. Hofstadter
12. The Empire and the People
Theodore Roosevelt wrote to a friend in the year 1897: "In strict confidence . . . I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one."
A Brief History of Liberia 1822-1991
A short history of Liberia written by a visitor to the country during the 1991 civil war.
It was intended to be background for a feature in Black Flag that never happened. It probably needs improving, especially on the responses of the people who lived there to their role as supplier of raw materials to the west, but is at least a start.
Liberia
Conkers or Bonkers? Humanitarian War in Kosovo
Explanations in terms of both imperialist gains and a descent into irrationality grasp only part of the reason why Europe and the USA recently went to war in Kosovo. This article argues that the timing of events is explicable in terms of both the end of the Cold War and the recent world financial crisis.
Introduction
After the Gulf War we carried an article that considered the failure of No War But the Class War to make an effective communist intervention in the anti-war movement. This time round, despite the fact that support for the war was incredibly weak on the part of the population at large, there was barely a credible anti-war movement to make an intervention in!
Somalia and the Islamic threat to capital
Aufheben gives the background to the civil war, famine and the US invasion of Somalia in 1992.
[b] A/ THE SOMALIA MYSTERY [/b]
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