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Jan 18, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Jay Janson |Bharat Dogra |Phil Pasquini |Andrew B. Bacevich
Noting a Coincidence As it turned out, Trump’s 2nd Inauguration as President of the United States of America falls on Martin Luther King’s birthday, a federal holiday (King being the only American to be presently so honoured).
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Phil Pasquini |Andrew B. Bacevich |Arun Mitra
Although only time will reveal very clearly the emerging foreign policy and worldview of the new (second) Trump presidency, there are already some indications. There is going to be an important continuity—the USA under Trump will continue to be guided by the overwhelming objective of seeking or retaining dominance of world in the sense of striving to always remain the number one power in the world. Towards this end, very high military expenditure will continue.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
nationofchange.org | Andrew B. Bacevich
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” So declared Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ah, if only it had proved to be so. Although my respect for MLK is enduring, when it comes to that upward-trending curve connecting past to present, his view of human history has proven to be all too hopeful. At best, history’s actual course remains exceedingly difficult to decipher.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Andrew B. Bacevich |Arun Mitra |Bharat Dogra |Rebecca Gordon
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” So declared Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ah, if only it had proved to be so. Although my respect for MLK is enduring, when it comes to that upward-trending curve connecting past to present, his view of human history has proven to be all too hopeful. At best, history’s actual course remains exceedingly difficult to decipher.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
laprogressive.com | Andrew B. Bacevich |Rob Maurer
Viewed in retrospect, perhaps the collapse of communism did not signify the turning point of cosmic significance so many of them then imagined. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” So declared Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ah, if only it had proved to be so. Although my respect for MLK is enduring, when it comes to that upward-trending curve connecting past to present, his view of human history has proven to be all too hopeful.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
scheerpost.com | Andrew B. Bacevich
By Andrew Bacevich / TomDispatchIn a recent column, the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen wrote, “What Henry Luce called ‘the American Century’ is over.” Cohen is right. All that remains is to drive a stake through the heart of Luce’s pernicious creation, lest it come back to life. This promises to take some doing. To solve our problems requires that we see ourselves as we really are. And that requires shedding, once and for all, the illusions embodied in the American Century.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
tomdispatch.com | Andrew B. Bacevich
Rewriting the Past by Adding In What's Been Left OutIn a recent column, the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen wrote, “What Henry Luce called ‘the American Century’ is over.” Cohen is right. All that remains is to drive a stake through the heart of Luce’s pernicious creation, lest it come back to life. This promises to take some doing. To solve our problems requires that we see ourselves as we really are. And that requires shedding, once and for all, the illusions embodied in the American Century.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
nuclear-news.net | Andrew B. Bacevich |Christina MacPherson
America’s War for the Greater Middle East (Continued) Here We Go AgainSCHEERPOST, By Andrew Bacevich / TomDispatch, December 13, 2023One way of understanding the ongoing bloodbath pitting Israel against Hamas is to see it as just the latest chapter in an existential struggle dating back to the founding of the Jewish state in 1948.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
nationofchange.org | Andrew B. Bacevich |A TomDispatch regular |A Washington
One way of understanding the ongoing bloodbath pitting Israel against Hamas is to see it as just the latest chapter in an existential struggle dating back to the founding of the Jewish state in 1948. While the appalling scope, destructiveness, and duration of the fighting in Gaza may outstrip previous episodes, this latest go-around serves chiefly to reaffirm the remarkable intractability of the underlying Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
dailykos.com | Andrew B. Bacevich
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. As I was following the nightmare in Gaza and preparing today’s piece by TomDispatch regular Andrew Bacevich, author of On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century, I couldn’t help wishing that another author I edited and published for years, Chalmers Johnson, was still with us.
