OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #217, FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-217-february.html Origins of Wars:Walter Karp. Indispensable Enemies: leaders’ desire for power.Herman and Chomsky. Manufacturing Consent: media support of ruling power.Monthly Review: failure to abide by international weapons treaties. Leaders’ Desire for Power Walter Karp, Indispensable Enemies: The Politics of Misrule in America. Saturday Review P, 1973. “In prosecuting an aggressive foreign policy, the party oligarchs have been driven by no cause or interest external to themselves: by no fundamental economic interest, by no genuine threat to the security of the Republic, by no irresistible poplar demand. Except in the post-World War I period [v. “Wilson’s war”], […]