Exceptional empire

September 07, 2012 00:00
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­Can the US be considered an empire? Is it a global force for stability or instability? How much does it cost to be an empire? And do Americans regard their homeland as an empire? CrossTalking with John Walsh, George Szamuely and Herbert London on June 18.

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Mike (unregistered) 14.08.2012 23:27

Notice during these convesation no one ask the question, does an incompetent racist idiot like bush and the racist jewish neocons have the right to take human life on this planet? Also, does a cowardly clown like obomba have the right to slaughter human beings? the anwser is no. These are genocidal crimes against all of us.  the world community must unite and demand that these war criminals (netanyahoo, clinton's, rumsfield, pearle, faith, rice, blair,zarchozy, the entire us congress and their nato allies be prosecuted for the millions of humans they have slaughtered and terrorised. It makes one ashamed to be human!

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Matt Dimon (unregistered) 14.08.2012 11:37

BK comments ring true and reveal the duplicity of the West. Iraq was a crushing disaster spreading its SUNNI against SHIA war across the middle east as with Syria and Bahrain. Supporting terrorists in SYRIA is an abomination. Fancy that we have RUSSIA and CHINA as the guardians of civilised behaviour in foreign relations. Makes you think about Viet Nam Bay of Tonkin resolution and other wars promulgated by the West in order to further the arms race and the space race...its Dr.Strangelove all over again. Time for another world war to clear the decks and the coming depression in Europe and Japan.

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BK (unregistered) 14.08.2012 00:27

Herbert London must be well paid for the utter garbage he spews.  Iraq has not been stabilized as a result of the U.S. war of aggression against it. London also forgets that the U.S. fully backed Iraq and its dictator in the 1980's.   The desire for empire is spelled out quite clearly in the PNAC manifesto, whose members are pushing hard for open military action against Syria.   To think that the U.S. isn't already doing covert action in Syria is absurd, London needs to drop the facade of the U.S. being the pious, righteous force in the world.  Furthermore, the U.S. empire is primarily financial in nature.   Anything that threatens the status of the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency for oil (and other) transactions will be dealt with by force. The assets of Libya, its oil, gold reserve, and financial assets were all prime targets for the international banking cartel.  London is a textbook example of a shill that hides behind a wall of righteous rhetoric while completely ignoring any evidence that bursts the bubble of his fairy tale spin.           

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