The Empire of Bases and the American Anti-War Movement by Steven Sherman

The Empire of Bases and the American Anti-War Movement

by Steven Sherman / March 10th, 2010 (0)

The anti-war movement in the US is in a deep funk. To date, even news of a surge in troops to Afghanistan has not really awakened it. The new book The Bases of Empire may help to clarify what we are trying to do.

Many suggest that the problem with the anti-war movement today is that it does not break with the Democratic Party, but this argument is somewhat ahistorical. When the movement was stronger in the sixties (against the Vietnam war) and the eighties (against intervention in Central America) painful debates raged on about …
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