[Dialogue] Information Clearing House articles worth skimming

[Chagnon@comcast.net]

>From Lucille Chagnon, Wilmington, DE

A very alarming 1997 article from the US Army War College and four most encouraging ones, including a contemporary response to the 1997 article by Major Peters.

Information Clearing House, Wed., March 8, 2006

A Veteran’s Letter to the President: 
“I Return Enclosed the Symbols of My Years of Service” 
http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/Contributors/JD030806.htm

Why is America so Hated By So Many: : 
An interview with John Perkins author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. He tells his personal story of being an economic hit man, how he was sent into 
third world countries to pressure leaders to except huge loans that resulted in 
the sacrifice of health, education and jobs for their people due to the 
overwhelming burden of the debt.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12246.htm

“Constant Conflict”   US Army War College Quarterly (1997): 
The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our 
economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair 
amount of killing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3011.htm

A 2006 response to the 1997 article “Constant Conflict”  
The aim of the US is clearly stated in the first paragraph - that is, to subject 
cultures and civilizations to American economic and cultural supremacy, and to 
persevere until they have overrun the entire planet. Maj. Peters then kindly 
demonstrates for us how this aim is to be realised.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12250.htm 

Democracy for breakfast : 
Mikhail Gorbachev says the US needs a dose of Russian medicine. - "America needs its own perestroika", he said, suggesting it is the United States that now needs radical reforms and self assessment.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12255.htm