by Greg Maybury | Feb 18, 2019 | Deep State, Economic History, National Security, Regime Change, The Presidency, US Foreign Policy
This essay was in part, inspired by — and written in memory of — William Blum (1932-2018). Blum was a comrade-in-arms, and himself one of the great keyboard warriors of his time. We all had much to learn from this man about courage, integrity, tenacity,...
by Greg Maybury | Apr 4, 2018 | Deep State, Shadow Government, Surveillance State, The Presidency, Uncategorized, US History, US Intelligence, US Politics
Greg Maybury is a Perth (Australia) based freelance writer. His main areas of interest are American history and politics in general, with a special focus on economic, national security, military and geopolitical affairs, and both US domestic and foreign policy issues....
by Greg Maybury | Nov 27, 2016 | Deep State, Geopolitics, National Security, Shadow Government, The Presidency, US Foreign Policy, US History, US Intelligence, US Military
The death of Fidel Castro offers us an ideal opportunity to reflect not just on the profound geopolitical import of Cuban-American relations. In the process we acquire a timely insight into how badly the Washington establishment gets it all so demonstrably and...
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 | Aug 1, 2015 | Geopolitics, US History, US Politics
The great of this world are often blamed for not doing what they could have done; they can reply, just think of all the evil we could have done, but did not do. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist, writer, aphorist (1742-1799) —*— Temperamentally...
