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The Annual American Imperialist Wallow

By AAN Staff
january 29, 2003  11:21 am
The Annual American Imperialist Wallow
More than a thousand top U.S. military and government leaders and their guests are scheduled to gather this weekend in Washington, D.C., for a secretive tribal rite called the 103rd Annual Wallow of the Military Order of the Carabao, Ian Urbina writes in The Village Voice. The Wallow commemorates one of America's imperialistic triumphs -- "the bloody conquest of the nascent Philippine Republic a century ago in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War." Celebrating an ethos that concludes "peace is hell," the Carabaos may be looking forward this year to a new burst of American empire-building.
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