By Matthew Clark I spent 33 years and four months in active service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for big business, for wall street and the bankers. In short I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank Boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central A

By Matthew Clark Christmas for many of us in Western lands is the most wonderful time of the year. We are told to be of good cheer and most of us, it would seem, take that directive to heart. Quality time with family and friends, rousing Christmas Carols, fine food, and religious worship make the Yuletide season very special. Nevertheless even the happiest celebrators of Christmas admit that all is not perfect with how many of us observe this special occasion. Chief among the

Since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre the United States federal governmen has conducted a foreign policy most accurately described as unipolar in structure. In 2001 the United States was the world's only superpower. It had attained this status with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Spurned on by the savage attacks which transpired on September 11, 2001, members of (President) George W. Bush administration decided that it was in the interests o

By Matthew Clark During the 2nd half of the 19th century the world's premier economic and military power, Great Britain, led an impressive crusade to free labour, Industry (particularly manufacturing), finance, and capital, from government fetters. Albion's mighty Royal Navy, the globes dominant military institution, conducted campaigns on the high seas against the slave trade, piracy, and state opportunism. As a result safety and security on the world's waters reached a leve