http://www.metafilter.com/tags/freedom+us Posts tagged with 'freedom' and 'us' at MetaFilter. Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:54:38 -0800 Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:54:38 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/42884/freedom%2Dthrough%2Dalcohol <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0616brazil16-ON.html">40% of the automotive sold fuel in brazil is ethanol,</a> and brazil should be totally energy independent in five years. If they can do it, why not the US? tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.42884 Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:54:38 -0800 alcohol brazil cugar energyindependance ethenol freedom gasoline petrol sugarcane US delmoi http://www.metafilter.com/42257/French%2Dfries%2Dprotester%2Dregrets%2Dwar%2Djibe <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1491567,00.html">Freedom Fries to French Fries:</a> "Sorry dear. It was a momentary lapse of reason. It was a combination of God's hand and a constituent's request. I wish it had never happened. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.42257 Wed, 25 May 2005 03:38:05 -0800 congressman freedom freedomfries french frenchfries fries hindsight regret US walterjones war acrobat http://www.metafilter.com/37919/Medal%2Dof%2DFreedom%2Dfor%2DIraq <a href="http://www.medaloffreedom.com/PaulBremer.htm">Medals of Freedom awarded</a> and I'd like to make some smart comment about current Iraqi conditions and the award and the presenter, but why bother - make your own. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.37919 Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:47:25 -0800 Bremmer Franks Freedom GeorgeTenet GeorgeWBush GWB Iraq IraqWar Medal MedalOfFreedom PaulBremmer PresidentialMedalOfFreedom Tenet TommyFranks US War jim-of-oz http://www.metafilter.com/24247/Blowback%2DThe%2DCost%2DAnd%2DConsequences%2Dof%2DAmerican%2DEmpire%2Dplus%2DWar%2DAnd%2DConflict%2DIn%2DThe%2DPostCold%2DWar%2DPost911%2DEra <a href="http://www.jpri.org/boa/cjohnson.html" title="CHALMERS JOHNSON was born in 1931 in Phoenix and raised in Buckeye, Arizona. After World War II, in which his father served in the Navy in the Pacific, his family moved to Alameda, California, where he finished high school and earned a B.A. in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He first saw Japan and Korea in 1953, when he served in the Navy during the Korean War. Returning to Berkeley, he switched fields and earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science. In 1962, he began teaching political science at Berkeley, and did so until 1988, when he moved to the San Diego campus of the University of California. He retired in 1992. At Berkeley he served as chairman of the Center for Chinese Studies from 1967 until 1972. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976. Johnson has written numerous articles and reviews and some twelve books on Asian subjects, including Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power on the Chinese revolution, An Instance of Treason on Japan's most famous spy, Revolutionary Change on the theory of violent protest movements, and MITI and the Japanese Miracle on Japanese economic development. This last-named book laid the foundation for the ''revisionist'' school of writers on Japan, and because of it the Japanese press dubbed him the ''Godfather of revisionism.''">Chalmers Johnson</a> is an provocative proponent of the <i>American Empire</i> theory, indeed. Here are excerpts from his <a href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blowback_CJohnson/Blowback_CJohnson.html" title="Contents: Stealth Imperialism, South Korea: Legacy of the Cold War & North Korea: Endgame of the Cold War, China: State of the Revolution, Japan and the Economics of the American Empire, Meltdown, The Consequences of Empire Quotations">Blow Back: The Cost And Consequences of American Empire</a><br><br>I heard Johnson interviewed on Episode II, <i>War And Conflict In The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era</i> of <a href="http://world.law.harvard.edu/show2.html" title="In this hour of the Whole Wide World, we'll take a museum-like tour of the theories of this war. Those interviewed are: Samuel Huntington, author of the now-famous ''Clash of Civilizations'' theory; Chalmers Johnson an expert on Asian politics and society and provocative proponent of the ''American Empire'' theory; Michael Clare, an economist of war; Akbar Ahmed, anthropologist of the Arab world and theorist on global Islam; Christopher Hedges, war correspondent for the New York Times; Robert Fiske, Lebanon-based journalist for the London Independent; and Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and Nobel laureate. ">The Whole Wide World</a><br><br> <i>The Cold War and its central conflict - the physical and ideological battles between the United States, the Soviet Union and their proxy states - imposed a certain logic and consistency on the world. Take that away and add the bloody wars in the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East in the ‘90s as well as the terror attacks and warnings of more recent times and you get a very confused picture of a world at war. Is this breaking storm in Iraq about oil, democracy, freedom, empire, culture, water, diamonds, modernizing Islam or nation building in the Middle East? Some, one or all of these things?</i><br><br>It was an excellent program and well worth your listen, either by RA now or mp3 later. <i>(From listening to the radio)</i> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24247 Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:43:05 -0800 americanempire blowback brokenlink chalmers conflict democracy diamonds empire freedom iraq islam johnson middleeast nationbuilding oil post911 postcoldwar unitedstates unitedstatesofamerica us usa war water y2karl