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> Mark Twain suggested that the time had come to redesign the American flag with “the white stripes painted black and the stars replaced by skull and crossbones.”
https://libcom.org/article/us-conquest-philippines-1898-1902
#MarkTwain on #USAFlag #ConquestOfThePhillipines
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Balangiga the My Lai of 1901
> Until this episode, many Americans had believed that their soldiers were different from others, operating on a higher moral plane because their cause was good. After Balangiga, however, a flood of revelations forced them out of their innocence. Newspaper reporters sought out returned veterans and from their accounts learned that American soldiers in the Philippines had resorted to all manner of torture.
https://libcom.org/article/us-conquest-philippines-1898-1902
#StephenKinzer #BalangigaMassacre
> His fervor to “Christianize” the Filipinos, most of whom were already practicing Catholics, suggested his ignorance of conditions on the islands. He certainly had no idea that they were in the throes of the first anticolonial revolution in the modern history of Asia.
> “The episode marked a pivotal point in the American experience,” Stanley Karnow wrote in his history of the Philippines.
https://libcom.org/article/us-conquest-philippines-1898-1902
#PresidenMcKinley #USColonies #Filipinos #StephenKinzer #Philippines
Chris Hedges: War Deja Vu
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/24/chris-hedges-war-deja-vu/
We heard these canards leading up to the 2003 war in Iraq. Twenty-two years later they have been resurrected. Anyone who advocates for negotiations, for diplomacy and peace, is a stooge for terrorists. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost There are few…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #Commentary #History #Intelligence #Iran #Iraq #Israel #MiddleEast #NuclearWeapons #Wmd #AlQaeda #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute #AtlanticCouncil #AyatollahRuhollahKhomeini #BrookingsInstitution #CentralIntelligenceAgency(c.i.a.)) #ChrisHedges #DavidFrum #DonaldTrump #Gen.JackKeane #GeorgeW.Bush #Isis #JohnBolton #JointComprehensivePlanOfAction(jcpoa) #Mr.Fish #NewtGingrich #NuclearNonProliferationTreaty(npt) #ProjectForANewAmericanCentury #SaddamHussein #Savak #SeanHannity #ShahMohammadRezaPahlavi #StephenKinzer #ThomasFriedman
"The Americans, particularly the Dulles brothers and the Eisenhower administration, could not accept this." - STEPHEN KINZER, Dwight D. Eisenhower: Covert action, Presidential #Presidential #NationalBrothersDay #StephenKinzer
