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Every first and third Wednesday from 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM. 

 

 

Connecting history with the latest world events

We live in an empire that began 500 years ago with the European conquest of the Americas. This program looks at how the empire permeates our lives.

 

What are we doing in the world? What are we doing to the world?

George Kennan was an influential US diplomat during the Cold War years. It was he who devised the containment strategy against the Soviet Union (as opposed to a more aggressive rollback policy). In February 1948 Kennan presented a document to President Truman, Presidential Policy Statement #23, which includes the following:

"The US has  50 percent of the world's wealth, but only 6.3 percent of its population. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which permits us to maintain this position of disparity...To do so we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming, and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives.

"We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are hampered by idealistic slogans the better."

Some have claimed that Kennan was speaking as a foreign policy "realist," and arguing against an ideological anti-Communist crusade. That may be so, but his words are clear, as Noam Chomsky has pointed out. The US intends to keep for itself an unfair share of the world's resources. The main difference between the realists and the ideologues is one of tactics in pursuing this ignoble goal.

 

 

 

 

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Fight the Empire on 01/06/11

Airs at: Thu, 01/06/2011 at 9:30am - 10:00am
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Host Per Fagereng speaks with Mike Ruppert, author of Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. They will discuss the New Year, the new Congress, peak oil and the future.  CD-1966 Read more

Per Fagereng speaks with historian Alfred McCoy

Airs at: Thu, 12/16/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am
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  Host Per Fagereng speaks with historian Alfred McCoy about his article “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire, Four Scenarios for the End of the American Century by 2025” McCoy says the demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickl... Read more

Fight the Empire on 12/02/10

Airs at: Thu, 12/02/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am
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Host Per Fagereng speaks with Michael W. Hudson about his new book, The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America - and Spawned a Global Crisis. Michael W. Hudson is a staff writer at the Center for Public Integrity, a non-profit jour... Read more

Cynthia Mckinney of Green Party talks about war, peace, and Bike4Peace

Airs at: Thu, 11/18/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am
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Host Per Fagereng interviews former Georgia Congressional Representative Cynthia McKinney a member of the Green Party since 2007. She served six terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives. In 2008, the Green Party nominated McKinney for President of the... Read more

David Barsamian on the elections and foreign policy

Airs at: Thu, 11/04/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am
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 Host Per Fagereng interviews author and radio host David Barsamian about the elections and foreign policy. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana... Read more

Mike Ruppert discusses Peak Oil and the looming Currency War

Airs at: Thu, 10/21/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am
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Mike Ruppert, the founder and former editor of From The Wilderness, a newsletter and website dedicated to investigating political cover-ups. He is now CEO and President of Collapse Network, Inc. Mike Ruppert will discuss peak oil and the looming currency war.   Ruppert was ... Read more

Fight the Empire on 10/07/10 with guest Ann Jones

Airs at: Thu, 10/07/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am
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Host Per Fagereng interviews Ann Jones about her new book, "War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War." This book is an investigation of what happens to women because of warfare. Ann Jones gave cameras to women to document their lives and conditi... Read more

Fight the Empire on 09/30/10, Host Per Fagereng interviews Gareth Porter

Airs at: Thu, 09/30/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am
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Host Per Fagereng interviews Gareth Porter, historian, investigative journalist and policy analyst on U.S. foreign and military policy. Porter just wrote a piece titled "UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis 'Executed' U.S. Citizen Furkan Dogan," which states: "The report o... Read more

Raed Jarrar on Iraq and Iran

Airs at: Thu, 09/16/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am
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Host Per Fagereng interviews Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi-born political analyst and Iraq consultant with the American Friends Service Committee. He recently wrote "End of War in Iraq or Rebranding of Occupation? Neither." http://www.kabobfest.com/2010/08/end-of-war-in-iraq-or-reb... Read more

Fight the Empire on 09/02/10

Airs at: Thu, 09/02/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am
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Host Per Fagereng interviews journalist Pepe Escobar about Afghanistan. Pepe Escobar, born in Brazil, is the roving correspondent for Hong Kong/Thailand-based Asia Times and analyst for Toronto/Washington-based The Real News. He is the author of "Globalistan: How the Globali... Read more