By William Blum
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"The American empire": those phrases sound to american citizens like an oxymoron, suggesting that their state has a lust for political, monetary and armed forces hegemony over the remainder of the realm. yet William Blum exhibits the following that encounters among the USA and different countries were of the cruellest variety.
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The FBI has an extensive hazardous materials unit ready to rush to the scene of an attack. And now the National Guard has joined the frenzy, outfitted in full-body protective suits with air tanks. The General Accounting Office (GAO) has argued that the National Guard units are redundant and their mission poorly defined. "40 As noted, the same can be said about other elements of the National Security State. In October 1999, ABC's "Nightline" program ran a five-part series in which it simulated a biological weapons attack on a large American city, featuring a squad of terrorists releasing anthrax spores into the subway system, complete with panic, death and rampant chaos.
Now] we will have to practice day in and day out without knowing anything about the other team. We won't have his playbook, we won't know where the stadium is, or how many guys he will have on the field. 33 The United States had postponed such a distressing situation for as long as it could. " Longstanding and repeated Soviet offers to dissolve the Warsaw Pact if NATO would do the same were ignored. S. "35 But the thoughts are indeed comforting to the military professionals and their civilian counterparts.
1978: Carter also issued an executive order prohibiting assassina^ tions. 1981, December 4: Reagan issued an executive order with language almost identical to that of Ford's. But on November 13, 1984, Reagan, obsessed with fighting the "International Communist Conspiracy" on several fronts, canceled his executive order, creating what was actually called by the press a "license to kill"—a license to kill anyone deemed a "terrorist". On April 10, 1985, Reagan canceled the "license to kill" because the previous month, the CIA had paid some people in Beirut to kill a certain sheikh Fadlallah, who was not to Washington's liking; a car bomb had been used and 80 people were killed, the sheikh not being among their number.
