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 | 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 | 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...