Today a world with less American militarism is likely to have less militarism in general.
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Militarism -- another obsession of autocrats -- also exercises Trump.
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But aversion to anything that smacks of militarism runs deep.
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And does Brexit Britain really need a dose of militarism?
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The expedition, filled with unapologetic militarism, inspired Fascism and Mussolini.
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This administration's militarism runs much deeper and is far more dangerous.
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Mr. Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel, found Mr. Bolton's militarism troubling.
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"Militarism is reducing, not enhancing, our security," Hussey said by phone.
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Films often proselytise American militarism while vilifying the largely Muslim region.
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There are several mentions of ending USs militarism, whatever that means.
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The waxing militarism of European society is reflected in the costumes.
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Hiroshima is the end result of Japanese militarism and lack of democracy.
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President Obama should speak out against the forces of militarism and authoritarianism.
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But here American idealism collided with the legacy of American anti-militarism.
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Verhoeven set out to play with fascist imagery and mock American militarism.
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It takes political correctness from the left and globalization/militarism from the right.
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A Sanders Administration would tell us that the days of militarism are over.
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Many are deeply skeptical of American militarism and ambivalent about parading their community's patriotism.
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New York and the American Union Against Militarism, and later on she became the
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South Koreans carry on with life, ignoring his infantile antics and his macho militarism.
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The foes of militarism in the United States had tried to prevent such horrors.
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Instead of greatness, this hyper-nationalism has historically led to militarism, hatred and decay.
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We are uniquely positioned to lead the planet in a wholesale shift away from militarism.
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No clear event, no Reichstag fire, marked the moment when the country lurched into militarism.
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Hirohito's son Akihito, in contrast, denounced militarism and opposed revisionist accounts of the war years.
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" He dismissed what he called the "Chavez phenomenon" as "militarism with a lot of money.
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It was an organic element in a disease complex that included capitalism, colonialism and militarism.
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His outpouring of militarism and chauvinism may or may not reduce the United States' influence.
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Historically, machines have belonged to domains typically considered masculine — labor and industry, war and militarism.
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Domestic critics at the time opposed the move because of its association with wartime militarism.
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Critics, on the other hand, see it as a fundamentally un-American glorification of militarism.
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After removing the photo and issuing an apology, the Chinese remained outraged, with the foreign minister's spokesperson issuing a statement saying he hope Bieber left the shrine with "a clear understanding of Japan's history of invasion and militarism, and of the source of Japan's militarism."
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They did not have much faith, however, that the masses would resist the lure of militarism.
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While the Democrat made the case for liberal militarism, the Republican attacked the interventionist status quo.
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Many well-intending faces do as well, for reasons that have nothing to do with militarism.
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Here he utilized a common weapon against overwhelming militarism — satire — to fuse identity politics and patriotism.
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Above all, the Rough Riders became instant celebrities because they embodied the public's newfound, idealistic militarism.
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This exhaustion led to the election of Obama, whose campaign represented a rejection of American militarism.
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Reaganism, militarism, racism and homophobia was the toxic brew in which his art came to be.
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It was also meant to prevent the resurgence of nationalist militarism in Europe, and encourage political integration.
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His two new films are about creation, while the originals focus more on corporate greed and militarism.
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I'd say his willingness to strike a deal with Iran represents something like an alternative to militarism.
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After visiting the Middle East, he bluntly accused Israel of "militarism" and the "domestic repressions" of Palestinians.
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Other readers recalled atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers during World War II and the Japanese empire's militarism.
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He offered a liberal internationalist vision -- emphasizing multilateralism, negotiation and disarmament -- after eight years of aggressive militarism.
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For Bacevich, America's militarism is fueled by a false assumption about the reach and efficacy of military power.
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But Germany's history of militarism and conscription of the people of conquered nations makes the idea particularly delicate.
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In their view, the dollar's role has encouraged American militarism and should be relinquished to curb such behavior.
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I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self‐defeating effects of physical violence.
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Instead, they say it's the inevitable result of systemic racism, anti-poor public policies, ecological destruction and militarism.
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" Rolling Stone recently called the film "clunky" and "toxic," exemplary of the "macho militarism of the Reagan era.
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The game's take is that American global militarism is not only good but the natural, innate order of things.
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The Desert Storm militarism of the Hummer has given way to the all-black Suburban of the Forever War.
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It also comes from the militarism and ultranationalism that, as in imperial Japan, rally the subjects behind the regime.
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He and other ministers like to worship at the Yasukuni shrine that glorifies militarism; Akihito pointedly refuses to visit.
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But the Soviet Union, succumbing to bureaucracy, militarism, and brutality by the 1930s, would shape the twentieth century nonetheless.
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He is enraged by radical Islamism (though he parries the inevitable charge of Islamophobia) and skeptical of American militarism.
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A different set of issues mattered to younger Democrats: the rights of disenfranchised groups, the environment, government corruption, militarism.
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And I heard Sanders' allies describe Biden as a bloodthirsty neoliberal warmonger who will return to militarism once elected.
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They shared a sustained critique of urban society and American militarism during and after the Vietnam War, he said.
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After the world wars, there was no major social need to weave militarism into the fabric of everyday life.
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The world would be better off, however, if the rise of Japanese militarism could have been thwarted or further delayed.
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It has landed as the full legitimization of cultural homogenization, techno-militarism and life inside the atomized logic of corporatism.
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We must have an honest conversation about the future of U.S. foreign policy, militarism, and our role in the world.
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Most liberals don't share Republican militarism, but many serve in the armed forces, or have friends and family who do.
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It is because our abundant wealth is held in the hands of the few and spent on war and militarism.
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When that occupation ended in April 1952, Japan had turned away from militarism to embrace ideals of pacifism and democracy.
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Militarism united Germany in the late 19th century only to become the source of its catastrophes in the next century.
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Artifact by artifact, Torres indexes the remnants of border violence, offering them up as evidence of militarism and government control.
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A strain of serious political critique comes through in some of Mr. Suzuki's films, especially those dealing with Japanese militarism.
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Our ilk is in a bad way, and not only because of the fanatical, desperate militarism represented by the Colonel.
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Accordingly, this critically acute artist could be willfully blind to the political implications of situations he encountered, for example, German militarism.
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"It seems like a step backward for the University," said Brian Baum, president of Stanford's Students for Alternatives to Militarism (SAM).
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As his rejection of militarism grew, he found refuge in the forests round the city: Nature against the forces of destruction.
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But the move was deeply sensitive in a nation that is still intensely conscious of the consequences of its past militarism.
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It denounced "a premeditated and well-orchestrated campaign" aiming to "cover up criminal acts of militarism by the USA and NATO".
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On the eve of World War I, the European bourgeoisie was caught up in a fervor of nationalism, militarism and racism.
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Some of these organizations have explicitly xenophobic aims, often targeting Korean or Chinese minorities, while others advocate a return to militarism.
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Not really, because I think a lot of Indian militarism has been thrust upon us by an unfortunately hostile neighbor [Pakistan].
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Two years ago, a suspected sighting of a mysterious submarine near Stockholm led to a frenzy of indignation at purported Russian militarism.
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All this is explored through the eyes of Mr Stanley's two subjects, both of whom resisted the tide of militarism and xenophobia.
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Beijing and Seoul see the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo as a symbol of Japan's militarism and a reminder of its wartime atrocities.
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These crises promise an era of deteriorating quality of life, increasing personal debt, eroded rights and freedoms, lawless militarism, and social breakdown.
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Despite the clear costs of unilateral militarism in Iraq, we are on a path to do the same in the next war.
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The emperor has visited 50 countries; he has consoled victims of disasters; and he has paid tribute to victims of Japan's militarism.
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"China urges Japan to earnestly face up to and deeply reflect upon its history of militarism," she told a daily news briefing.
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King imagined America as a "beloved community" capable of defeating what he characterized as the triple threats of racism, militarism and materialism.
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She helped found the National Woman's Party, the Woman's Peace Party, the American Union Against Militarism, and the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Most military establishments have not," said Sabine Fruhstuck, the author of "Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan.
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Together, as the forces of militarism have kept us engaged in unending wars, we have stood arm-in-arm to fight back.
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Every administration uses some combination of diplomacy and militarism, whether it's the threat of force or its actual use, to achieve its aims.
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Clipping photos and phrases from army recruitment magazines, Theodore A. Harris began his decades-long critique of the relationship between militarism and capitalism.
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Japan's population remains sensitive to any perceived reversion to the militarism that many still blame for wrecking the country during World War Two.
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But because of Imperator's near-singular focus on militarism, these tensions are most interesting in the context of how they affect your expansion.
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Navarro, who wrote "Crouching Tiger: What China's Militarism Means for the World", undoubtedly understands the dangers of China's posturing throughout the African continent.
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Fifty years ago Martin Luther King, Jr. articulated the interrelatedness between what he called the three evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism.
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In comparison, this one appeared to have been choreographed to tone down militarism and instead highlight Mr. Kim's efforts to rebuild the economy.
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But it has done so with little application of military force, in sharp contrast to what many in China see as American militarism.
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These are excellent values to be sure, but our constitutional tradition also embodies much uglier ones, like white supremacy, patriarchy, xenophobia and militarism.
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Nobody likes hearing that they should rein in their ambitions in the name of realism, especially when reality is creeping oligarchy and militarism.
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His criticism often insults Germans, given the still-raw sensitivities about militarism in the country 74 years after the end of the Nazi era.
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In a country which has reason to be wary of militarism, any change of thinking about the country's strategic role takes time to absorb.
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This book, Bacevich's eighth, extends his string of brutal, bracing and essential critiques of the pernicious role of reflexive militarism in American foreign policy.
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The top item on an agenda that included ending racial and ethnic discrimination and ceasing militarism and the preparation for war was ending poverty.
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There have been other struggles, of course: for equality for women, African Americans, and LGBTQ people; for environmental protection; and, of course, against militarism.
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Sanders's stated doctrine here does have the substantial benefit of expressing skepticism of militarism and unilateralism, and for some voters that may be enough.
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Some communities welcome Junior R.O.T.C., but in others, it meets resistance from parents and advocacy groups who say it promotes militarism among impressionable youths.
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Liberals continue to oppose a military buildup in Japan, but some analysts say younger people don't understand the dangerous stakes of tilting toward militarism.
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So did the buzz of militarism in the lead-up to World War I. And, he fell in love with a young army officer.
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They cheer that, after the war, Japan's American occupiers and political elite rebranded Hirohito, who was complicit in Japanese militarism, as a paragon of pacifism.
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The mood of absurdity in all of these seems appropriate to the postwar period, with its ruins, trash and outmoded materials and its disgraced militarism.
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The ban could also relate to Bieber's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan in 2014, viewed in China as a symbol of Japanese militarism.
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The shrine honors 14 Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals and is seen in China and South Korea as a symbol of Tokyo's wartime militarism.
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He revived Clinton-style militarism in the Middle East, where periodic airstrikes and special ops missions take the place of Bush-style invasion and occupation.
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Rachel Dozier-Ezell's costumes favor a militarism that is meant to evoke Haile Selassie's reign in Ethiopia, though the intent of this isn't entirely clear.
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After taking office, his tweets on China attacked it for militarism, currency manipulation and unfair trade practices right up until the markets dropped in October.
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We particularly reached out to artists working on the arms trade and militarism, given that was why we'd removed our work in the first place.
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Student Challenge: Students can look in The Times for any signs of the main causes of World War I today: militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism.
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They may justify their foreign policy decisions with liberal, internationalist arguments rather than neoconservative ones, but the outcome is always the same: interventionism and militarism.
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The last time progressives challenged the party's national agenda was back in 1988 when presidential candidate Jesse Jackson submitted amendments on healthcare, militarism, and education.
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But it's also a metaphor for US militarism and the kind of bombastic neo-fascism that Trump is selling to millions of angry, disaffect Americans.
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But he got the three biggest things right: the threats posed by Prussian militarism before 1914, by Soviet communism after 1945 and by Nazism in between.
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To see beyond this mindset begins with an honest assessment of the effects of US militarism at home and abroad, in the economy and in society.
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After the election of President Bush, though, he revised that forecast five years forward because, he argued, Bush's policies of extreme militarism would be an accelerant.
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When he saw how militarism, materialism, classism, and racism still had such a hold on the body politic, he began to organize a poor people's campaign.
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"XXX," featuring U2, is a layered and complex critique of systemic racism and American militarism and expresses the notion that America is not good to everyone.
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As Belew shows, these men packaged their rage into a toxic mélange of racism, anti-Semitism, militarism, radicalism and manliness that became the white power movement.
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For Mishra, elements in modernity that seem violently opposed, Zionism and Islamism, Hindu nationalism and Theosophical soppiness—not to mention Nazi militarism—share a common wellspring.
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That feeds into some persistent criticisms from the staunch anti-Trump side that he is a fascist looking to appeal to red state America's nascent militarism.
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" And: "We lost the fight against militarism and ended up with a candidate whose legitimacy is rooted in being a voluntary veteran of an immoral war.
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You need only look at the career of George Romero, who imbued his zombie movies with blunt social commentary on consumerism, race and Cold War militarism.
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Omar has experienced firsthand how innocent humans pay the price for militarism, warfare, and systemic injustice, and is using her platform to protect the most vulnerable.
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Locating themselves on the safe ground of what historian Andrew Bacevich has called " the new American militarism," they were simply enacting a time-honored American public ritual.
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In fact, it seems to represent a relatively consistent worldview: not realism or isolationism but old-fashioned militarism, the pursuit of national prestige by exhibitions of might.
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A push to ease the charter's constraints on the military operating overseas could lead to tension with China, where memories of Japan's past militarism still arouse anger.
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As a gay male he was wary of social norms, while at the same time being attracted to militarism and even toying with some aspects of fascism.
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It exposes the intertwined conundrum of increased nuclear militarism, unabated climate change, and the corruption of global information systems by leaders using new technology for nefarious goals.
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It is a sensitive subject within Germany, touching on the country's history of militarism as well as its hesitation about assuming a strong leadership role in Europe.
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"Trump says very scary things—deporting immigrants, massive militarism and, you know, ignoring the climate," Stein said in an interview with Democracy Now, according to a transcript.
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The projection of global power has, over the years, strengthened militarism, justified interventionism, and reinforced corporate power—all the things the left is committed to fight against.
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Rhodes encouraged these delusions — along with the White House advisers Samantha Power and Susan Rice, who professed a somewhat tortured liberal militarism, a faith in humanitarian intervention.
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Three members of Code Pink, a women-led organization opposed to U.S. wars and militarism, had to be removed from the House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing.
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" The article railed against "a premeditated and well-orchestrated campaign" that intended "to cover up criminal acts of militarism by the USA and NATO against peace and security.
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Post-war Germany and Japan felt safe enough to forsake militarism and concentrate on economic growth—as they had not in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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"Her open denial of the ... facts is simply an attempt to cover up Japan's history of aggression and challenge the international order by reviving militarism," the ministry said.
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She has been a regular visitor to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead that neighbors, including China and South Korea, see as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.
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Code Pink, an organization that says it works to end U.S. wars and militarism, filled up a large diapered "Baby Trump" balloon on the National Mall in protest.
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There is an ever-widening disconnect between the predictable bipartisan militarism of "support the troops" politicians and the surprisingly bipartisan war-skepticism of Americans who have actually served.
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But a push to ease the charter's constraints on the military operating overseas is bound to be opposed by China, where memories of Japan's past militarism arouse anger.
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Listening now, the song has lost none of its relevance; the song's grim tales of American planes and militarism could reference any number of tragedies involving American imperialism.
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A veteran of left-wing struggles, Mr. Corbyn learned his politics fighting apartheid in South Africa and campaigning against what he saw as Western militarism and neo-imperialism.
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Western Europe's economies were booming; Britain and France had become nuclear powers; German militarism had been tamed, even as a new, large modern army emerged in West Germany.
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Blind partisanship, misplaced bomb-the-hell-out-of-them militarism and just plain hatred are not qualities that whoever is occupying our nation's highest office should ever embody.
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" According to Yoon, it might also "erode North Korea's willingness to talk and look for solutions," putting South Korea "on a course dictated by the logic of militarism.
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He would dearly like Japan to shed the complexes it has developed as a result of its history of militarism and colonialism, and assert itself more in international affairs.
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They say "Withdraw the illegal THAAD immediately" and "Stop US militarism," slogans that would feel familiar in a leftist rally but are unusual in the country's traditionally conservative southeast.
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But it is actually of a piece with Japan's post-war tension between asserting itself as a global power and apologizing for its rapacious militarism in World War II.
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Visits to the shrine by prominent Japanese officials anger neighbors China and South Korea, which consider Yasukuni a symbol of Japan's militarism and a reminder of its wartime atrocities.
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Escalation against Iran is bound to deepen the insecure country's siege mentality; rising tensions will feed Iran's militarism and militancy; and squeezing Iran will diminish Mr. Rouhani's maneuvering space.
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Ukrainian authorities have called for a boycott of the World Cup and said the case of Sentsov and other prisoners are examples of Russian human rights abuses and militarism.
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But he also showed a pragmatic side by stopping the visits after fierce complaints from China, which, like the rest of Asia, considers Yasukuni a symbol of Japanese militarism.
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When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.
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But that early reckoning got bogged down in politics: The United States, together with Japanese liberals, decided the problem was Japanese militarism and gave the country a pacifist Constitution.
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"It became my job to construct the physicality or image of militarism on a body that had nothing to do with that but that represented its symbolic gesture," Cassils said.
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Slamming American-inspired militarism could prove a useful campaign tactic for Martin Schulz, a Social Democrat who wants to thwart Mrs Merkel's bid for re-election in September (see article).
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The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has embraced their main causes, bombing Kurdish insurgents at home and abroad, promoting militarism in education and using siege mentality as foreign policy.
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Most obviously, there's the continuous over-the-top displays of patriotism and militarism—displays that, from 2011 to 2014, the Department of Defense paid teams $5.4 million to put on.
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The Republican convention featured a sprawling blended family, an L.G.B.T. first, and promises of a top-down government fix, while the Democratic convention showcased religiosity, patriotism, militarism, and American exceptionalism.
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Today, entrenched forces in Washington remain committed to foreign policies more in line with what Martin Luther King Jr. called "the madness of militarism" than the statecraft of real diplomacy.
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But Hamas, seeking to distract from its own mismanagement, has since assumed a key organizational role, taking advantage of Palestinian suffering and Israeli militarism to renew attention on the conflict.
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For example, the recent stream of refugees from Middle Eastern countries ravaged by U.S. militarism (with help from their allies) are a clear reminder of how small our world is.
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Germans like to say the reluctance of Berlin to pull its military weight is a reaction to the horrors of World War II and the subsequent backlash against German militarism.
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In the last years of Dr. King's life, his holistic vision led him to emphasize the connections between racism, militarism and economic injustice, and to see continuities across social movements.
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An Eastern European Jew who, after a lengthy American detour, immigrated to Palestine in 1921, Meir embodied the movement's socialist and egalitarian modesty as well as its tough-minded militarism.
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After the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, which made the pacifist cause more urgent and more dangerous, Eastman joined the group that would become the American Union Against Militarism.
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Militarism and mercantilism constitute a new policy, unconstrained by any consideration of what the United States stands for in the world or the values its alliances have defended since 1945.
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The militarism and fascism of the story, arguably embraced by Robert A. Heinlein's original novel, is both questioned and tacitly embraced by Verhoeven's (and his Robocop screenwriter Edward Neumeier's) interpretation.
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She gave a forceful, riveting address in which she correctly said that Donald Trump had "fulfilled the campaign promises of a campaign organized and built upon racism, corporatism and militarism".
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It illustrates just how central militarism became to North Korean strategic doctrine — and because the state thus needed an external threat to justify Songun and the civilian sacrifices it called for.
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Poetry had to unsettle, subvert, with luck destroy, whatever stopped human beings thinking freely and acting justly, as he understood justice: consumerism, militarism, modern psychiatry, ossified institutions, brain-numbing new technologies.
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So it signifies, in a weird but real way, a certain notion of American militarism, American patriotism, American strength and violence, in a way that a skill game like basketball doesn't.
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During the rising sectarian tensions of 1970s Lebanon, El Madani's photographs frequently evoked militarism, war, power and masculinity: phenomena saturating the psyche of a society on the brink of civil war.
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It's also true that we can find in Sparta's history starker versions of the darker tendencies of our own society: militarism, intolerance of outsiders, indifference toward the value of human life.
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Football is ripe for satire, of course, with its undisguised militarism, its unfamiliarity with the language of irony, its Lombardi-esque moral elevation of stakes that are, in the end, imaginary.
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Mr. Rosenquist's paintings rarely contained overt political messages, but his best-known work, the enormous "F-111," was made in 1964 and 1965 in part as a protest against American militarism.
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But the truths Trump reveals—the rot in our jingoistic militarism, our plutocratic economy, the racialized violence of calls for "law and order"—continue to rampage through our common life unchecked.
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He opposes corporate welfare and other forms of corruption, he vocally backs civil liberties against both parties' leadership, he stands against global militarism, and he frequently engages bipartisan coalitions to advance reforms.
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The new American militarism Trump supporters may favor deference to the military because they are supremely loyal to this president and because he has often suggested that he loves men in uniform.
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Japan's neighbors see the shrine as a symbol of the country's former militarism, since it honors 14 Japanese leaders convicted by an Allied tribunal as war criminals, along with other war dead.
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Apart from China and South Korea, which are still haunted by memories of Japan's brutal occupations of their territory before and during the war, few countries fear a revival of Japanese militarism.
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You have this thing with neoconservatism militarism fused with moral idealism that seeks to achieve everything but ends up accomplishing nothing and doing so at a huge cost of blood and money.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established in April 1949 to serve three objectives: Deterring Soviet expansionism, preventing the revival of militarism in Europe, and encouraging European political and economic integration.
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But Naruhito, born in 1960, like Abe is a member of a post-war generation with no living memory of militarism or the slaughter and starvation it inflicted at home and abroad.
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In the last years of his life, with Jim Crow in retreat, Dr. King turned to what he labeled the three evils — poverty, militarism and racism — that kept black people in bondage.
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"It is critically important that we keep building a larger grassroots movement against war, militarism, racism, anti-immigrant scapegoating and neoliberal capitalism's assault against workers' living standards and the environment," it states.
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Implicitly promoting militarism, low taxes on the rich, and anti-immigration policies — cornerstones of the Trump administration's agenda — Falwell suggests that Trump need not follow Jesus's ethic to be a Christian politician.
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Sanders wants to "lead the planet in a wholesale shift away from militarism," according to his Green New Deal plan, reducing spending on things like having the Navy protect oil shipping routes.
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The annual Spring Festival at Yasukuni Shrine, seen as a symbol of Japan's past militarism by many in Asia, started with a blessing of Shinto's religious gods and wishing peace for all.
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Britons' view of their country as a pillar of a European and world order, rooted in their experience of standing up to fascism and militarism in World War II, is also shifting.
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"I have a vision of family values that has room for families like mine, a vision for patriotism that is about preventing conflict ... and not about any kind of militarism," Buttigieg said.
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Judy Browder, Tucson Speaking as an American expat, this piece certainly resonated with me: the palpable anxiety, the extreme wealthy class, the police-state militarism at every turn, the partisan acrimony, etc.
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Abe sparked outrage in China and South Korea for his December 2013 visit to Yasukuni Shrine for war dead in Tokyo, seen in those neighboring countries as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.
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Instead, he started clipping photos and phrases from recruitment material and magazines like Soldier of Fortune and Small Arms Review, which began his decades-long critique of the relationship between militarism and capitalism.
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The EU represents "Zollverein 2.0", the original 19th century customs union led to German unification under Prussian militarism at the expense of the very existence of kingdoms like Bavaria and many other principalities.
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The President now faces the kind of test that confronted earlier presidents, some of whom demonstrated the ability to respond with confidence, with gravitas, and with the right mix of diplomacy and militarism.
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In Thailand, the government has responded to a long-running Malay Muslim insurgency in its southern provinces by fostering a Buddhist militarism, encouraging monks in local temples to ally with the armed forces.
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Nick got to the remote camp by small rental plane, motorcycle and on horseback, and was most surprised not by the outfit's militarism but by their 1960's-style ethos of free love.
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Instead of pounding the drum of impending civil war in Venezuela, our nation's leaders should focus on developing environmentally sustainable alternatives to the fossil fuels that have for too long guided American militarism.
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The plot's light, but it'll give you a sense of how Ryan plays the not-quite-human Seven, coping with her own guilt and trauma about the roles she played in Borg militarism.
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The American military should not be a stage background, and American national security policy should never be cloaked with even a shadow of the kind of militarism used by the worst of nations.
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This again shows the common thread in West's writing: Anything that fails to include all of these issues, from wealth inequality to militarism, simply fails to address the full scale of white supremacy.
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It was therefore the beginning of a road to indoctrination in which Japanese carried out orders in the name of the emperor—a road that led to militarism, total war and, ultimately, shattering defeat.
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Military and civilian personnel have questioned the both the cost of such a parade and the time away from training it would take, as well as the purpose of the overt display of militarism.
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Neither the signatories of the pact nor the League of Nations was willing or able to stem the rise of militarism during the decade that followed and its apotheosis in the second world war.
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Everything about her is a rebuke to Jeremy Corbyn, Labour's leader, who was born in privilege and has taken every opportunity to criticise "militarism", at least when it is practised by his own country.
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China and North and South Korea will protest loudly if Japan revises Article 9, claiming that this is a step back towards the Japanese militarism that devastated East Asia in the 1930s and 1940s.
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As the Platform statement of the Movement for Black Lives later put it: While this platform is focused on domestic policies, we know that patriarchy, exploitative capitalism, militarism, and white supremacy know no borders.
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Pankhurst made her argument that militarism—"deeds not words"—was a strategy whose roots lay in the "record books of man's enfranchisement," which inspired American suffragists to draw parallels with their country's founding revolution.
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The occupiers allowed Japan to develop an expedient myth that its people and its emperor — officially considered synonymous — had been innocent victims rather than willful perpetrators of the militarism that the new Constitution rejected.
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North Korea will top the agenda, but China's increasing militarism in the South China Seas and other maritime issues, the fight against the Islamic State, and other possible military cooperation will also be discussed.
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A game that genuinely attempts to capture the viewpoint of the very real people impacted by the unbridled militarism of the world's most powerful nations would at least potentially be able to say something new.
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It's a vivid sequence, but it's also one that works as a detailed metaphor for the blind spots caused by America's form of techno-militarism, and what happens when theory-induced hubris encounters messy reality.
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Last year, Haidar took up anti-militarism activism on their campus at CUNY Law School after learning about the Soloman Amendment, a federal law that cuts funding to schools that prohibit military recruitment on campus.
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Officials in the Gulf states and Israel said they believed US President Donald Trump was drawing a line of deterrence against what they see as hitherto unchecked Iranian and Russian-backed militarism in the region.
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As many have noted, Trump didn't introduce America's ugliness—its militarism, its feeble social-welfare programs, its rampant privatization of public goods, its latent and overt bigotries, to name a few—he merely amplified it.
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Repudiating both militarism and racist mysticism, it has been built slowly and painstakingly across three generations, in cooperation with other powers (including its old enemies the French), using a mix of democratic and bureaucratic means.
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The hashtag "WW3" was trending on Twitter on Friday and through the weekend, but is "one of the most hyperbolic, stupid things I've heard," according to Phillip Smyth, a Washington Institute expert on Shiite militarism.
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"I hope this singer can learn more about the history of Japanese militarism, and the wrongful historical and militaristic views promoted by the shrine after his visit," said Qin Gang, a spokesman at the time.
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If his works resonate with us today, we are lucky one the one hand lucky, but on the other misfortunate — who would want to live in a world like his, overrun with militarism and nativist resentment?
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North Korea's militarism and threats, as we know them today and see in this week's nuclear test, have also evolved quite recently, just in the 1990s, in a way that explains particularly this week's nuclear test.
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"Whether it is the struggle against racism, or sexism, or homophobia, or corporate greed, or environmental devastation, or war and militarism or religious bigotry — real change never takes place from the top on down," he said.
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Trump sounded welcome notes of foreign policy prudence on the campaign trail, but he also often embraced the very sort of militarism for which he rightly critiqued his opponents in the primary and general races alike.
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On Friday, Sanders described King as something more than a civil rights leader: "a nonviolent revolutionary who wanted to see our nation undergo a revolution of values" against those "triple evils" of racism, poverty and militarism.
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Japan eschews militarism and therefore military parades, but it sought to make Mr. Trump feel special by making him the first foreign head of state invited to meet Emperor Naruhito after his ascension to the throne.
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Although German militarism is no longer a concern, Berlin's policies on immigration and the eurozone have contributed to resentment and instability in the EU. President Donald Trump makes little effort to conceal his disdain for NATO.
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The more martial culture of northern Germany, the Prussian-dominated culture that gave Germany a reputation for hardness, and eventually paved the way for the militarism of the Third Reich, was not associated with the tradition.
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MILITARY Another major shift under Xi has been a greater focus on nationalism and militarism, with the President bringing the People's Liberation Army firmly under his control and holding a series of major military parades and drills.
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The new rules, written into law, were intended to block any attempt to use another branch of the family to revive the militarism that led to World War II. Back then, a succession crisis hardly seemed likely.
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Conservatives have long railed against liberal Hollywood, and liberals have bemoaned the racism, sexism and militarism of Hollywood products, but through it all red and blue states have come together to produce plenty of box-office green.
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" Carter has continued to monitor closely our militarism, reminding us that in 2017 "there were 240,000 American troops openly stationed in at least 172 foreign countries, plus more than 37,000 others in places militarily classified as secret.
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Across the Korea Strait in Japan, the Tokyo government has leveraged the DPRK's nuclearization to nudge the populace to abandon its resolute pacifism, dating from the World War II Japanese defeat after decades of militarism and war.
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By 1979, when the Iranian revolution interrupted oil imports again, the American public was ready to countenance a new modus operandi: environmentally destructive deregulation of the domestic energy industry and aggressive militarism to preserve oil access abroad.
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It would be better if those allies spent a little more, but it's not obvious that America's forthcoming global challenges—such as managing China's rise and Russia's revanchism—would be advanced by more German and Japanese militarism.
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Please. You are granting way too much historical importance to the self-implosion of a political movement that rose to power over the past 30 years on a platform of moralistic piety, militarism, anti-abortion, and xenophobia.
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She has visited Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead, seen by China and South Korea as a symbol of Japan's past militarism because it also honors World War Two leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Sunday but held off from visiting what Japan's neighbors view as a symbol of the country's former militarism.
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One thing that Bernie Sanders has that no one else in the field has is willing to really radically challenge some of the underlying premises about US foreign policy, regime change, this obsession with militarism, the Pentagon budget.
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And this militarism, when it is taken up by politicians and the American public -- in contrast to the anti-militaristic patriotism of the nation's founders -- regularly sends US military personnel into harm's way for less than optimal reasons.
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"You cannot be opposed to Trump's foreign policy of militarism and then vote for the budgets that carry it out," Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California and a vice chairman of the Progressive Caucus, said in an interview.
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He reimagined America by placing racial justice at the core of our national values and conceptualizing a compassionate democracy capable of resisting the triple threat to humanity -- militarism, racism, materialism -- that he spent his final year railing against.
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The political conclusions reached by King during the liberal administration of Lyndon Johnson meant that the "racism, militarism and materialism" that lie at the core of the crisis in the United States was not simply a partisan issue.
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Online offerings could also be particularly useful for providing the softer set of skills and knowledge critical to returning law enforcement to the role of community guardians and away from the militarism that has seeped into many departments.
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And their struggle became an anchor of the original Poor People's Campaign, a cross-racial fusion movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others aimed at ending the the triple evils of poverty, racism and militarism.
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If we now again choose to ignore past misbehavior in the nuclear sphere, are we not ignoring Iran's past (and present) militarism, its hostage-taking of Americans, its gross human rights abuses, and its support for international terrorism?
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Vietnam raised larger issues about the future of American democracy, especially around the themes of militarism, racism, and materialism that Dr. King had decried before his death and that Bobby Kennedy wrestled with during his short presidential campaign.
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Booker offers a vision of the presidency that can serve as an antidote to the law-and-order presidencies of the past; King's movement was trying to rid America of the "triple evils" of racism, poverty, and militarism.
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But her spirit could be found in Wars, a group exhibition at David Nolan Gallery that delved into "combat, militarism, and civil strife, [as well as] boxing, sex, and unsettled interior states," making macho aggression its real subject.
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Prior to the unaccompanied minor flare-up in 2014, the White House had adopted a relatively hands-off approach to Central America, fusing the trade and financial liberalization of the Clinton administration with George W. Bush's drug-war militarism.
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Meanwhile, lack of scruple rules: Mr Goswami's original backer, one of a new breed of Modi-supporting industrialists and a member of the upper house of parliament, profits through arms sales from the militarism Mr Goswami extols on air.
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After the second world war the American occupiers insisted on the separation of shrine and state, since Shinto had been a central part of Japan's war effort, in which the cult of the divine emperor served to legitimise militarism.
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Meant to lay the groundwork for "a society free from authoritarianism, militarism, centralism and the intervention of religious authority in public affairs," the charter established three autonomous cantons in Rojava, as the Kurdish region in northern Syria is known.
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We can talk about race, but nobody talks about expansion, nobody talks about militarism, nobody talks about what it means that the promise of endless economic growth is no longer the way that one can respond to social demands.
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The rampant privatization of the military and the prison system epitomize U.S. militarism, prioritizing the profits of the few who make billions from war, tactical equipment, and mass incarceration, over the health, education, and well-being of the many.
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And I think that I agree with George Kennan, who was one of the greatest diplomats of the last century, who said that if we expand NATO into Eastern Europe, you will have the rise of nationalism and militarism in Russia.
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He backed a Poor People's Campaign, taking aim at what he called the "evil triplets" of racism, poverty, and militarism and called on poor people across the country to make a second march on Washington in the name of economic justice.
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Her career has been dedicated to austerity, militarism, and repression — all the worst facets of life under neoliberal capitalism, and all of which are horrible for women — and I have tried to spend as much time as possible fighting those things.
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"Putin is doubling down not just on nationalism and militarism, but on a sense that Russia is basically alone in the world, under threat, and needs to show that it has sharp, sharp teeth," Galeotti said by phone from Prague.
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For the GOP, having a New Yorker at the top of the ticket signals that the Southern-based Republicanism of low taxation, social and cultural conservatism, unfettered markets and hawkish militarism no longer sits as well with voters in the party.
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After the Communist Party's scare over the Tiananmen protests in 1989, demonisation of Japan played a central role in Chinese nationalism, even as the claim that the Japanese might revert to their pre-war militarism has become less and less plausible.
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Instead of planning a dumb joke, we've spent the last week reporting out stories on everything from Gimlet Media's attempts to stall a staff unionization effort and Silicon Valley's slow-but-steady pivot to militarism to experiments with mice and psychedelics.
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It was a decade in which the existential threat of AIDS, exacerbated by governmental inaction and coupled with rampant militarism, environmental degradation, and corporate deregulation, with its attendant greed, fraud, and abuse, congealed into a widespread sensation of apocalyptic malaise.
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Having said that, a big disappointment in Washington, a sudden downturn in domestic, or global economic activity, an aggressive markdown of earnings expectations, or an expansion of militarism could bring about a deeper, and more concerning decline in the stock market.
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In 1980, for example, at the Women's Pentagon Action, 1,500 female activists surrounded the Pentagon to claim that the social fabric was being torn apart by rampant militarism, sexism, racism, homophobia, environmental devastation, nuclear proliferation, and cuts to social spending.
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As the writer and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz argues in her brilliant new book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, America's obsession with guns has roots in a long, bloody legacy of racist vigilantism, militarism, and white nationalism.
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Even under Japan's quasi-fascist militarism in the 1940s, there was no leader who behaved like a dictator — not even Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, whom Americans liked to depict, quite falsely, as a Japanese Hitler, and certainly not Emperor Hirohito.
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Prior to attending the event, Speak Out seemed from all appearances and for several reasons to promise the delivery of a full-throated, powerful, collective polemic against the white supremacy, misogyny, xenophobia, militarism, and fascism that the Trump administration represents.
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In that sense (and that one alone), Soupault's avant-gardism helped cultivate a taste for the ambiguity of the post-truth political economy of the alt-right, with its toxic mix of white supremacy, misogyny, xenophobia, militarism, and oligarchic tendencies.
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I would like to campaign for her as well but that would depend on the confidence that her administration would end its disastrous romance with Wall Street, end its relentless militarism and end the Clintons' chronic shirking of ethical standards and clarity.
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Jiwon Choi's artwork "Parallel" juxtaposes personal reenactments of K-pop personas, historical news footage, and interviews with her grandfather, a survivor of the Korean War, as a way to suggest connections between K-pop, militarism, and the ongoing division of the Korean peninsula.
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"When it occupied Germany after World War II, the allied powers prohibited the display of 'any monument, memorial, poster, statue, edifice, street or highway name marker, emblem, tablet, or insignia which tends ... to revive militarism or to commemorate the Nazi Party,' " he said.
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Adjacent to her privilege is the fact that she lived well outside of social norms in her time: a pacifist who argued regularly and publicly against militarism; a woman who had numerous female lovers and dressed in clothes styled to mimic men's garments.
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" He has denounced the congressman Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, who has sought to investigate Trump-Russia in the face of Republican obstruction, as "one of the most hawkish, pro-militarism, pro-spying members of the Democratic Party.
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What began as Palestinian protests around the March of the Return turned into Hamas' fight with Israel as the group took "advantage of Palestinian suffering and Israeli militarism," director of the Wilson Center's Middle East Program, Aaron David Miller, wrote for Axios.
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And there's a similar, well-documented relationship between Hollywood and the US military, ranging from films receiving military backing to the Pentagon's long history of cooperating with filmmakers — and allegedly then leaning on studios to influence screenplays toward promoting the military and militarism.
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Several issues echo from the director's earlier films -- the militarism of "Fahrenheit 9/11," the gun-control concerns of "Bowling for Columbine," the destruction of his home town, Flint, in "Roger & Me" -- to mount a critique that takes multiple parties to task.
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David Smilde, an analyst at the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights advocacy group, said that if Mr. Cabello was chosen to lead the assembly, it could both weaken the president and usher in new levels of militarism into Venezuelan's government.
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But where Moore and Gibbons were writing in the context of Ronald Reagan's America — with its greed and militarism and Cold War tensions — the showrunner Damon Lindelof and his collaborators are working in today's context of racial violence and resurgent white nationalism.
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To combat the normalization of Trump and all he and his administration represent — white supremacy, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, militarism, and oligarchy — magazines, museums, universities, theaters, and businesses around the country will shut down so that workers can take action as they see fit.
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But a vote for Clinton forecloses the new day for all of us and keeps us captive to the trap of wealth inequality, greed ("everybody else is doing it"), corporate media propaganda and militarism abroad—all of which are detrimental to black America.
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" Another high-profile Sanders supporter who was in attendance, Cornel West, described the Vermont senator as "the most consistently progressive one out there," suggesting that some would-be 2020 candidates have adopted Sanders' words, but maintained ties to Wall Street and "militarism.
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That said, we cannot address these recent hurricanes' crippling of the Caribbean without addressing the US militarism and business interests that have meddled in Caribbean affairs for over a century and the US consumerism that has rendered this region a mere playground for the privileged.
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His last movie, "The Kindergarten Teacher," also takes place in Israel and focuses on a woman who becomes obsessed with a virtuosic boy poet, a squirmy fixation that opens up into a critique of Israeli militarism and machismo in a battle between barbarism and culture.
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And many Libertarian social positions -- an openness to immigration, an embrace of equal rights for gay, lesbian, and transgender persons, a hostility toward the war on drugs and American militarism abroad, and support for women's reproductive rights -- are arguably more progressive than the average Democrat.
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Abe's cabinet minister for reconstruction of disaster-hit regions, Masahiro Imamura, paid his respects later in the day (Wednesday, Tokyo time) at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead, seen in China and South Korea as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, Kyodo news agency said.
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MORE STORIES FROM THE HILL: This Christmas, the West simply closed its eyes on Aleppo If Obama won't act to stop slaughter in Aleppo, Congress can Media does Americans a disservice by ignoring crisis in Aleppo Anti-Americanism and anti-militarism infuse human rights groups.
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I'd missed the early warning signs about modern American war as a kid—some planted there by the show, but more coming from the biographical file cards that accompanied each G.I. Joe figure, with occasional subversive counterparts to the steadfast militarism of the Reagan era.
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The vote for stability at home, though, is likely to provoke unease across Asia, where memories of Japanese militarism in World War II endure and the prospect of a more assertive Japan will add to worries over China's territorial ambitions and North Korea's nuclear program.
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The taste for militarism and global domination vanished, and in its place rose an intense desire to be a paragon of gentle innocence, so much so that many Japanese saw themselves as the victims of the war's Pacific Theater, instead of its principal perpetrators.
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He's written two books critical of Chinese foreign and economic policy — "Death by China: Confronting the Dragon – A Global Call to Action" and "Crouching Tiger: What China's Militarism Means for the World" — and he supports the Trump-proposed 45 percent import tax on Chinese goods.
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She knows the cost of the COG's militarism, and when, at the outset of her story, she finds herself out in the wilderness beyond the government's protection, she is a compelling window into both the good and the bad of the world of Gears.
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After Ronald Reagan's triumphant militarism and George H. W. Bush's cautious realism — realism that nonetheless resulted in war in the Persian Gulf — Buchanan emerged as the new voice of the Old Right, a paleoconservative populist promoting a raft of nationalist policies, including non-intervention.
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We are traitors to our country's divisive rhetoric, filled with militarism, hatred, blood lust and warmongering, just as we stand opposed to yours, which threatens not only us, but also your neighbors — that is, your own brothers and sisters, and even your own people.
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This, by the way, creates certain obvious problems for those of us who oppose the presidency and the striking new militarism of Donald Trump — if, at least, it means embracing such representatives of Lofgren&aposs deep state as that old war criminal, John Bolton.
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For those of a liberal mindset, we have already lost an historic opportunity with President Obama because of his foolish bipartisan efforts, his timidity, his paranoia over information control and his militarism in "responsibly prosecuting our role in the world," as the thought goes.
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Final counts showed Abe's coalition, like-minded parties and independents had won the two-thirds "super majority" needed to try to revise the constitution's restraints on the military, a step that could strain ties with China, where memories of Japan's past militarism run deep.
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"I believe the Japanese government is well aware that the Rising Sun flag is viewed by neighboring nations as a symbol of (Japanese) imperialism and militarism," Kim said on Tuesday, adding that the ministry planned to continue to work to change Tokyo 2020's decision.
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There is valid concern, particularly but not only on the left, that Clinton would be too willing to repeat Kissinger-style policies of militarism or regime change, whereas I don't think people seriously fear that Bernie Sanders is going to recolonize the Indian subcontinent.
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Phillip Thomas's own evocation of grandiose Old Mastery (particularly, and fittingly, from France) seems to juxtapose a seemingly white-aspiring post-colonial Black bourgeoisie against a literal wallpapered backdrop of Black suffering, with silhouetted detailings of white militarism and hanging Black bodies alongside depictions of white leisure.
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Whether it was Rorschach's noise-soaked passages that fell somewhere between bands on Amphetamine Reptile and Ebullition, Earth Crisis' extension of Judge's mid-tempo militarism, or the Charles Manson-worshipping of Integrity that gifted the genre with nihilistic occultism, bands were rarely aligned musically, much less ideologically.
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But it's a kind of silliness with real and potentially dire consequences, as the candidates, one by one, promised militarism and an official policy of belligerence, speaking to a world that remembers the last time America tried that and earnestly fears the consequences should it happen again.
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" The signatories belong to a group named Veteran Art Movement, which describes itself on its website as "a decentralized network of veterans and service members committed to making art and using creative practices to transform themselves and a society grappling with endless war, militarism and dehumanization.
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Buttigieg wove his stint as a Navy intelligence officer and criticism of Trump's "chest-thumping militarism" into his stump speech and returned to his tenure "in the dust of" Afghanistan answering questions at town halls across New Hampshire, as the presidential primary takes a foreign policy turn.
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At least one child advocacy group complained that the video, which was watched hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube, was injecting a little too much militarism into a peaceful tradition, especially in light of the fact that much of the audience is made up of youngsters.
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The Art Strike is intended as an act of solidarity with the broader slate of #J183 events and, as the movement's site puts it, as a tactic among others to combat the normalization of Trumpism — a toxic mix of white supremacy, misogyny, xenophobia, militarism, and oligarchic rule.
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Kennedy copped to the accidental vote in a tweet Friday after being confronted on Twitter by Stephen Miles, the director of anti-militarism advocacy group Win Without War, who asked him "why on earth" he would vote with Republicans on the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.
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In their view, these ideas include an obsession with capturing political power; a tendency to demonize others, from Muslims to migrants; an uncritical attitude to militarism, capitalism and the arms industry; indifference to the environment; and an obsession with the apocalypse and a final battle between good and evil.
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That doesn't explain everything, but it explains a lot: the obsession with racial purity, the near-religious worship of the superhuman father-leader, the militarism and hostility and feverish ultranationalism, and the expectation that citizens will happily abandon their individualism for the betterment of the race-based national collective.
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That doesn't explain everything, but it explains a lot: the obsession with racial purity, the near-religious worship of the superhuman father-leader, the militarism and hostility and feverish ultranationalism, and the expectation that citizens will abandon their individualism happily for the betterment of the race-based national collective.
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The pursuit of a peace treaty — to replace the 1953 armistice, to which the United States but not South Korea was a signatory — would, beyond its symbolic value, help dismantle the culture of militarism and anti-Communist paranoia that has, at times, justified repressive crackdowns in the South.
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Previous iterations have taken place along Sunset Boulevard, Mulholland Drive, and in Downtown LA. This year's version will take place on Veterans Day, with events based around the intersection of Washington and National in Culver City, and both date and place chosen for their relevance to nationalism and militarism.
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But they may have to start facing the fact that what we're seeing today is not a spasm but a new direction in American foreign policy, or rather a return to older traditions — the kind that kept us on the sidelines while fascism and militarism almost conquered the world.
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For years now, progressives have been debating how to articulate an American foreign policy that rejects what they see as the militarism of liberal internationalists, who make up the Democratic Party establishment, and left-wingers who reject any use of American power in the world as inherently tainted.
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The notion that a terrorist attack might sway a Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump election to Trump stems from two premises: first, that national security threats enhance the appeal of the Republican Party's militarism; second, that negative, exogenous shocks, like terrorist attacks, drive voters into the arms of the non-incumbent party.
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Read: Brazilian politics is backsliding toward militarism, and the presidential election could make it worse At the heart of Folha's report was a Cambridge Analytica–like operation by a group of marketing companies who collected databases of WhatsApp users phone numbers that they would then spam with anti-Haddad fake news.
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When you look at North Korea understanding this fact, it becomes clear that it survives not despite, but rather because of, the things that make it so unusual: the propaganda, the quasi-religious worship of the Kim family, and the provocative militarism that includes, this week, its fourth nuclear weapons test.
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His early endorsement of Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential campaign, in which he called him "a principled, courageous, insistent fighter against the evils that Dr. King referred to as the giant triplets of racism, militarism, and greed," was an early sign that electoral politics might be in his future.
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"This was probably the most major decapitation strike that the US has really ever been involved with since they killed Admiral [Isoroku] Yamamoto during World War II," Phillip Smyth, an expert on Shiite Islamist militarism and senior fellow at the Washington Institute, told Insider of the drone strike that killed Soleimani.
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The two of us introduced a graduate seminar on comparative colonialism at Princeton University 40 years ago, and while the course readings and discussions dealt with the slave trade, racism and imperial militarism, they did not neglect the economic, political and cultural contributions that Western colonial rulers made to Asian and African societies.
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One day [after she and Harvey were married] a woman named Lou Ann Merkle, who was herself an artist, came to Harvey for advice about printing a collection of comics about US militarism that she wanted to hand out to kids at schools, on behalf of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors.
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The United States was tearing itself apart over civil rights and the war in Southeast Asia when Father Berrigan emerged in the 1960s as an intellectual star of the Roman Catholic "new left," articulating a view that racism and poverty, militarism and capitalist greed were interconnected pieces of the same big problem: an unjust society.
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These issues of systemic poverty, which have been overlooked by both parties in U.S. politics, are inextricably tied to systemic racism, ecological devastation, a militarism that has gutted imagination for domestic spending and a religious nationalism that gives cover for politicians while saying nothing about religion's concern for the poor and the common good.
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" On Mr. Trump's Inauguration Day in January, the Queens Museum closed its galleries in solidarity with an art strike called by hundreds of artists — including Cindy Sherman, Richard Serra and Louise Lawler — to combat, as the organizers put, it "the normalization of Trumpism — a toxic mix of white supremacy, misogyny, xenophobia, militarism, and oligarchic rule.
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" A lengthy stay in Hawaii, where her husband was a visiting teacher, led to "Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress" (1972), a profile of a state she described as "an autistic Eden, a plastic paradise, in which the militarism and racism of the American empire are cloaked in a deceptive veil of sunshine and flowers.
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The human predisposition, or more accurately, the predisposition of the human male toward belligerence across a spectrum of potential conflicts is reflected in the title of the show — not the singular War but the plural Wars; while much of the imagery deals with combat, militarism, and civil strife, it also touches on boxing, sex, and unsettled interior states.
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But though the constitution issue has been a driving priority for Abe and the right-wing of the LDP, most other parties in parliament are fiercely opposed to changing the current document, which was formulated in reaction to Japanese expansionism and militarism before and during the war and has long been a point of pride for the country.
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Finally, to counter the disturbing world trends indicated by the doomsday clock remaining at two minutes to midnight, American citizens should ask every candidate running for office in 2020 to answer this question: What will you plan to do to reverse the new abnormal in nuclear militarism, in climate change inaction, and in corruption of our information systems?
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When Emperor Hirohito died in 1989, he passed the throne to his son, Akihito, who inherited a position that had come to primarily represent neither militarism nor pacifism, neither the past nor the present, but the unresolved tension between the two, the embodiment of a national identity crisis too painful and awkward to confront head-on.
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"This is the real question, not if Democrats are going to get elected, not if Republicans are going to get elected, but if America is going to be America, she's going to have to address systemic racism, systemic poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and militarism, and our false moral narrative of religious nationalism," he said.
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"It was important to be here today to sit with defectors who have escaped the most tyrannical regime on the planet and hear their stories, and see the tears in their eyes and also to see the aftermath of the militarism that was once again on display in Pyongyang yesterday with one more military parade," Mr. Pence said.
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For one, there are few decision makers from whom they can learn: Since the early days of the Cold War, foreign policymaking has been dominated by a bipartisan commitment to militarism and American hegemony; those who depart from the consensus view have largely been kept out of the State Department, the Pentagon and other parts of the government.
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Next to Dr. Cook's book in some Canadian bookstores is "The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War" by the historian Ian McKay and the writer Jamie Swift, who dismiss as "romantic militarism" the widely held view that modern Canada was formed by the heroic action of its soldiers at Vimy.
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Because of its spongy militarism and unearned sanctimony and general blank and overwhelming dumbassery, the NFL far outpaces any other sports league for reflecting the failures of the culture in which it's situated; the NBA, which is an altogether lighter and more pleasant place, is not remotely in the same universe of dysfunction, in terms of its product or overall ambient vibe.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE is being praised by Code Pink, a group working to end U.S. wars and militarism that has protested the Iraq War.
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And not only would Williams need to improve of the shortcomings of Spec Ops: The Line to get there, he would have to be allowed to tell a story that commits to the oppressive nihilism of the Sith order in a way that cuts against the action-driven focus of the Battlefront and Battlefield franchises—which by their nature tend to have a sympathetic stance toward militarism.
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Holding tight to George McGovern's old campaign slogan, "Come Home, America," they invoked it more as prayer than policy, while their opposition to war atrophied to two main reflexes, either a call to "nation-build at home" (to spend money—which would be wasted on militarism—on hospitals, schools, and bridges), or a warning about blowback (that the effects of intervention will be worse than the benefits).
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If the identity of the US is so intricately connected with militarism, weapons, imprisonment (without the objective of reform), harsh sentencing, aggressive/intimidating policing, the death penalty and interventionism (at home as well as abroad), then the existence of violent episodes like the most recent tragedy in Pittsburgh fits a broader pattern — perhaps not in frequency, severity or scope but in intent and form.
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In the latest chapter in this endless cycle of militarism, the White House has even resuscitated the careers of discredited voices like Elliott Abrams and John BoltonJohn Robert BoltonSchumer joins Pelosi in opposition to post-Brexit trade deal that risks Northern Ireland accord Why President Trump must keep speaking out on Hong Kong Trump meets with national security team on Afghanistan peace plan MORE, who helped launch illegal wars in previous decades and now guide Trump's foreign policy.
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"Any monument, memorial, poster, statue, edifice, street or highway name marker, emblem, tablet, or insignia which tends to preserve and keep alive the German military tradition, to revive militarism or to commemorate the Nazi Party, or which is of such a nature as to glorify incidents of war, and the functioning of military museums and exhibitions, and the erection, installation, or posting or other display on a building or other structure of any of the same, will be prohibited and declared illegal," the directive reads.
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Critics of the public schools have argued instead that their obsession with militarism—absorbed bone-deep by generations of prime ministers and generals—has in fact more often than not goaded the country into war and prolonged the bloodshed, most ruinously during World War I. The British army, led by a Harrow graduate, simply reproduced civilian class hierarchies, installing public schoolboys as officers with command over hundreds of working-class men whose life experiences were as foreign to them as those of the African villagers their forefathers subjugated.
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