CounterPunch Exclusives

CounterPunch Exclusives

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The live broadcast of Saturday’s friendly between the US and German national soccer teams in Chicago was quite the eye-opener for international fans unfamiliar with the military’s typical role at US sporting events. Even this former American, who is all too familiar with the phenomenon of color guards and flyovers at football and baseball games, was taken aback on Saturday: those were not the standard sleek fighter jets flying in tight formation and trailing red-white-and-blue plumes that US spectators have come to expect, but lumbering B-52s, aka Stratofortresses, those infamous bringers of death and destruction to Indochina 60 years ago. In fact, two of the countries........

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