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Fueling the Afghan war
The Nation by Aram Roston 04/21/10 In Napoleon Bonaparte’s day an army may have marched on its belly, as the French emperor famously quipped, but the modern-day American military campaign in Afghanistan... ...
The Road to Total War
Video From Napoleon to Nagasaki, The Road to Total War charts how the social, economic and technological developments of the last two hundred years have made warfare so efficient that it can now destroy... ...
Soviet war veterans warn US on Afghan strategy
Can Cheryle Jackson End the War in Afghanistan? Robert Naiman, Truthout: "Add Illinois to Pennsylvania as states where there is a contested Senate primary in which the war in Afghanistan has become an... ...
Barack Bonaparte: 'Soft Power' and Personal Charm
By Hizb ut-Tahrir When the European conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt as part of his quest for world domination, he told the people: "You will be told that I came to destroy your religion; do... ...
Obama’s 100-day power grab
Cato Institute by Gene Healy 04/28/09 Unless you’ve been smart enough to avoid the news entirely for the last few weeks, you know that tomorrow marks President Obama’s first 100 days in office. But you... ...
War's Shopping Cart
Pepsi, Apple, Krispy Kreme and other consumer firms profit from Iraq too. By Nick Turse Napoleon supposedly said, "An army marches on its stomach." Over the years of occupation to come, and for the... ...
The Challenge Of Modern Slavery
By Loretta Napoleoni Almost every product we consume has a hidden dark history, from slave labor to piracy, from counterfeit to fraud, from theft to money laundering. We know very little about these... ...
Oil for war
The American Conservative by Robert Bryce 03/10/08 Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach. That may have been true for his 19th-century force. But the modern American military runs... ...
Bush: In the footsteps of Napoleon
Asia Times by Juan Cole 08/25/07 French Egypt and American Iraq can be considered bookends on the history of modern imperialism in the Middle East. The Bush administration’s already failed version of... ...
The End of Dissent?
AntiWar.Com by Justin Raimondo 06/22/07 Back in the 1950s, you’ll remember, it was ‘The end of ideology,’ and in the 1990s, just after the final death throes of the old Soviet Union, it was ‘the end... ...