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During the Civil War, most famously in the siege of Atlanta, he made his mark as a proponent and practitioner of total war, scorched-earth campaigns against civilians, particularly targeting their food supplies.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

“We levelled entire cities with our bombs and shell fire,” admitted the high commissioner. “We destroyed roads, public buildings, and bridges. We razed sugar mills and factories.” In the end, he concluded, “there was nothing left.”

Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire

In an effort to create Indigenous economic dependency and compliance in land transfers, the US policy directed the army to destroy the basic economic base of the Plains Nations—the buffalo.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Finally, we can simply destroy excess production through war and waste.

Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

One part of the nuclear war plan called for destroying the Soviet tank army. As a result, JSTPS aimed a lot of weapons at not only the tanks themselves, but also the factory that produced the tanks, the steel mill that supplied the factory, the ore-processing facility that supplied the steel mill, and the mine that furnished the ore.

Asterisk Magazine Issue 01 Inaugural Issue

By 1960, the U.S. war plan called for launching the entire nuclear arse -nal — at the time, 3,423 weapons, exploding with the blast power of 7,847 megatons — against 1,043 tar -gets in the Soviet Union, its satellite countries in Eastern Europe and Communist China. 3 This was not a plan to strike back if the Soviets launched a nuclear attack on the... See more

Asterisk Magazine Issue 01 Inaugural Issue

o, in 1964, McNamara declared a new nuclear policy, stating — in very similar terms to the Navy’s strategy of a few years earlier — that the U.S. needed only enough weapons to kill roughly 30 per -cent of the Soviet Union’s population and half of its industrial capacity. At that point, all of the major cities would be destroyed; launching any more... See more

Asterisk Magazine Issue 01 Inaugural Issue

This is all, unfortunately, a microcosm of the problems we face. We’re up against a system that views and treats hyper short-term profits as more important than our collective future. We’re up against corporations and ways of doing business that would ignite the planet before letting their profits fall – and that’s exactly what they’re doing. We,... See more

Joshua P. Hill • 200 (and 1)

There is a non-linear relationship between the age structure of vegetation and the intensity of fires. Fifty-year-old trees burn fifty times more intensely than twenty-year-old trees. However, because of the power of influential residents living in the Malibu region, since 1919 the local policy has been one of ‘total fire suppression’. This means

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

Asterisk Magazine Issue 01 Inaugural Issue

Asterisk Magazine Issue 01 Inaugural Issue

Asterisk Magazine Issue 01 Inaugural Issue

Joshua P. Hill • 200 (and 1)

John Urry • What is the Future?