Articles by Andrew Bacevich
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Martin Luther King’s Giant Triplets–Racism, Yes, but What About Militarism and Materialism?
Andrew Bacevich | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
23 Jun 2020 – In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Americans are finally — or is it once again? — confronting the racism that afflicts this country and extends into just about every corner of our national life. Something fundamental just might be happening. Yet to state the obvious, we’ve been […]
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Andrew Bacevich – TomDispatch,
21 Nov 2011
By attributing cosmic significance to every novelty and declaring every unexpected event a revolution, self-assigned interpreters of the contemporary scene — politicians and pundits above all — exacerbate the problem of distinguishing between the trivial and the non-trivial. Arrangements that once conferred immense prerogatives upon the United States are coming undone. In Washington, the governing class pretends that none of this is happening, stubbornly insisting that it’s still 1945 with the so-called American Century destined to continue (reflecting, of course, God’s express intentions).
→ read full articleAmerica’s Empire and Endless Wars Are Destroying the World, and Ruining Our Great Country
Terrence McNally and Andrew Bacevich - AlterNet,
13 Sep 2010
Andrew Bacevich speaks with a fairly unique mix of experience, authority, passion and wisdom in questioning our nation’s priorities: specifically our willingness to place so much of our national identity, wealth, attention, moral practice, and finally the life and blood of many thousands of our citizens and millions of those of other countries in the hands of our military. A professor of history and international relations at Boston University, Bacevich served twenty-three years in the U.S. Army, retiring with the rank of colonel. He lost his son in Iraq. A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he received his Ph. D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. He is the author of several books, including The New American Militarism; The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism; and his newest, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War.
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