Torture, Rape, Murder….It’s the American Way

Matt Siegfried exposes the systematic abuse of Iraqi prisoners as an extension of the US penal system. This article originally appeared in Fourthwrite (see p27). The photographs of US soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners have become symbols of American conceit, American hypocrisy and brutality. The folly of the Iraq adventure seems to be summed up by…

The oil and military Industries behind Bush

Matt Siegfried, a socialist and trade unionist activist from Detroit, examines the motivation behind the US government’s obsession with war against Iraq. This article originally appeared in Fourthwrite. The United States is on the verge of war with Iraq. A section of the Bush administration, reflecting a section of the US ruling class, has long…

Colombia, the IRA, US and Manifest Destiny

Matt Siegfried, a socialist and trade unionist activist from Detroit, looks at the implications for the US government’s Plan Colombia This article first appeared in Fourthwrite No. 10, Summer 2002. The ruling class of the United States has long viewed everything south of the Rio Grande as its exclusive domain. The United States became a…