Author Archives: ann li-summers

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About ann li-summers

retired professor, independent scholar

His book should not have been the only Counterinsurgency text available for an entire post-Vietnam generation

Posted on October 18, 2015 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Yet if predicting the future is a hopeless endeavor, learning from the past is not. The counterinsurgency books that Nagl studied do impart an important lesson. The goal the United States hopes to reach in Iraq — … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 Election, 9-11, Afghanistan, American History, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, CIA, Countries, Foreign Policy, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Government, Government Propaganda, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq, Media, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, NSA, Political Science, Politics, Presidents, Syria, Terrorism, US Army, US Military, USAF, USMC, USN, War | 3 Comments

They Killed the GOP Party – You Bastards!

Posted on October 17, 2015 by ann li-summers

“Oooh, thats a bingo!” (Inglourious Basterds – Col. Hans Landa) By ann summers With the continued dithering of the GOP over who will be its next Speaker of the House of Representatives, although my bet would be on Paul Ryan … Continue reading →

Posted in American History, Congress, Conservatives, Government, House of Representatives, Politics, RNC, Tea Party, United States | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

Reliquary needed for fragments of the True Conservative

Posted on October 14, 2015 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Who are true conservatives, the dope-smoking homophobe Bill Buckley, the late druggie Andy Breitbart, George “Cubs Win!” Will, Ron “Goldbug” Paul, Billy the son of a Trotskyist Kristol, Chuck “Grecian Formula” Krauthammer… More importantly, who among the … Continue reading →

Posted in American History, Capitalism, Conservatives | Tagged | 12 Comments

POC aren’t the problem for the Homeland’s “war on terror”

Posted on October 12, 2015 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The problem is as it’s always been – the ethnocentrism of the European colonizers and their American-born descendants, basing their bias on property and power and in the case of recent GOP politics on the fear of … Continue reading →

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Toward recovering the $7 trillion from offshore tax havens

Posted on October 8, 2015 by ann li-summers

By ann summers If you’re rich and you don’t want to pay taxes, here’s a way to go. Drop that billion in a secret bank account abroad. It’s illegal, but there are plenty of people who will help you do … Continue reading →

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Unintended consequences: The 1965 Immigration Act and its nativist contradictions for 2016

Posted on October 3, 2015 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Would you go “back to where you came from” even if you’re from here, so that you could return to enjoy(sic) the rights of full citizenship and even though those you encounter on a daily basis discriminate … Continue reading →

Posted in American History, Civil Liberties, Conservatives | Tagged | 8 Comments

For Trump the Master-Brander, being POTUS is just another job

Posted on October 1, 2015 by ann li-summers

By ann summers We may see real power brokerage at the GOP convention with delegates as the capital – a new arbitrage tool for tRump. If he’s savvy, Trump will have one of his media partners do a documentary of … Continue reading →

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Ted Cruz and the incest taboo: Pulling a Boehner to resign

Posted on September 25, 2015 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Ted Cruz as creepy Uncle ‘Bagger – the victory of Tea Party forces seeking to unseat House Speaker John Boehner got what they wished for and the guy behind the curtain has now forced all the Klinghoffers … Continue reading →

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For Talking Like a Pirate (but not really acting like one) Day

Posted on September 20, 2015 by ann li-summers

By ann summers For pirates, talk is cheap and perhaps subordinate to buckling swashes and its stereotypical, romanticized pirate discourse made even more weird by “parley” as texts made popular by a Disney theme park ride have cinematically distorted the … Continue reading →

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East Texas 9th Grader, Ahmed “Big Bang Theory” Mohamed hopefully has the math chops for MIT

Posted on September 17, 2015 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Too many anchor babies contributing to national educational advancement, packing heat sinks.  Kid didn’t even bring a Glock to school. In Irving Texas, it’s make a clock, go to jail. An Arab-looking man of Syrian descent in … Continue reading →

Posted in Civil Liberties, Education | Tagged , , , , , | 8 Comments