United States — Military policy — Economic aspects.

  • Bush’s big gamble : the economic incentives of war / Thomas Furgeson ; interviewed by Lance Davidson.

    Thomas Furgeson, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, discusses the economics of Desert Shield/Desert Storm. He examines the flow of surplus oil sales monies to London and New York, the Kuwaiti investment in the United States, and how United States actions around the world are not consistent with its stated reasons…

  • The Bully on the block / Noam Chomsky.

    Excerpts from “Creeping Fascism” (IZ0317), an event organized by WBAI-FM in New York to investigate the growing strength of the political right in the United States governemnt, with Corporate Nationalism forming the key to this political shift. Features a talk by Noam Chomksy, and Chomsky answering questions from a panel as well as the audience.|THE…

  • Loving country of justice : U.S. militarism and the Gulf War / Ramsey Clark.

    Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark speaks on the contradiction between the stated principles of American Democracy and the actions of the United States during the Gulf War, 1990-1991. He begins by pointing out how the celebrity status of T.E. Lawrence is false, and he actually sold out Iraq for English interests. The United States opposition…