War in the 21st Century – Part 2 – Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Dominance – Steve Miller

The US was the dominant imperialist force in the post World War II era. It managed the transition from the direct colonies – literally owned and controlled by England, France and Germany – to the neo-colonies, where the newly independent nations entered the world economy. Then began the transition to the global capitalist economy that […]

War in 21st Century Part 1- Steve Miller

Chinook Flight Engineer in Afghanistan “War as cognitively known to most non-combatants, war as battle in a field between men and machinery, war as a massive deciding event in a dispute in international affairs: such war no longer exists.” Sir Rupert Smith, Deputy Commander of NATO during the 1998-999 Kosovo War “If you treat debt as a weapon, […]

The Southern Roots of Private Property in the US – Steve Miller

Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person – David Korten Southern ownership of human beings as private property has informed the most extreme legal vision of property in the world. This article discusses the following two books: Ned and Constance Sublette. […]