by Greg Maybury | Nov 27, 2015 | Deep State, Geopolitics, National Security, Power Politics, Shadow Government, US History, US Politics
‘Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by...
by Greg Maybury | Oct 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
‘As the global reach of industry and finance grew during the postwar era, so did the national security complex. America’s vast system of military and covert power was aimed at not just checking the Soviet threat but at protecting U.S. corporate interests...
by Greg Maybury | Oct 23, 2015 | National Security, Shadow Government, The Presidency, US History, US Politics
‘The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador,...
by Greg Maybury | Oct 16, 2015 | Deep State, National Security, Shadow Government, US History, US Politics
‘Bill Adler checked out of the Company in 1969 a very bitter customer. Maybe he was just a disgruntled left-wing commie, but tons of those are still in the Company. Sometimes the good ones are the worst, the mediocre ones are just civil servants with...
by Greg Maybury | Sep 11, 2015 | Geopolitics, National Security, US History, US Politics
The war in Vietnam sometimes seemed so alien to American experience and expectations that it might have been happening on some other planet, and it had its own special vocabulary whose words and rhythm were native to its ordered lunacy….The rules were clear but...