War, Wealth, Empire & The Obama Presidency

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May 1, 2009 · Posted in Commentary · Comments Off on War, Wealth, Empire & The Obama Presidency 

By LIONEL ROLFE

I am not a warmonger by nature. I never was in the military, except for a couple of military schools I was sent to as a kid. One of the schools, Urban Military Academy (now Brentwood Academy on Sunset Boulevard in a ritzy part of West Los Angeles), was for spoiled rich kids. The other, Mt. Lowe in Altadena, was tough and mean, run by a real Army sergeant, who was big into discipline. Most of the students were at best middle class – there because their parents were getting divorced, or they just wanted to get them housed somewhere else. Read more