Articles by Ron Jacobs

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U.S. Imperial War Personified
Ron Jacobs – CounterPunch, 20 Feb 2017

17 Feb 2017 – Modern warfare is both extremely personal and robotically impersonal. Those who profit from the warfare go about the business of developing ever more murderous weaponry often designed to create even more distance between the killer and the killed; the general and the soldier.

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TIME TO BE IMPOLITE ABOUT AFGHANISTAN: PROTEST THE NON-WAR
Ron Jacobs, 15 Sep 2009

In Germany, Chancellor Merkel defends a murderous attack on civilians siphoning fuel from two stuck oil tankers, telling her countrymen that the war in Afghanistan is not really a war at all. In Washington, Bush administration holdover Robert Gates (whose role in carrying on the mission of the Empire is clearer by the day) tells […]

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