A Strong Welfare State Could Be a Blow Against Imperialism
The US military is a human-maiming, planet-destroying machine. We have to begin rolling it back immediately.
US soldiers roll barrels of fuel onto a truck during a fuel drop at Forward Operating Base Waza Kwah, Paktika Province, Afghanistan, in July 2010. Jeffrey Alexander / US Army
The US military has a massive footprint in every sense of the term.
Environmentally, it’s staggering. The Department of Defense currently burns enough fossil fuels that were it a sovereign nation, it would rank in the top third of carbon-emitting countries.
Physically, the US military occupies an astounding amount of real estate around the world. It operates a network of approximately eight hundred military installations in 40 percent of the world’s nations. Staffed by hundreds of thousands of service personnel, this foreign base system gives Washington an unparalleled and unprecedented ability to project power anywhere on the planet, with unconscionable results.
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