Chris Hedges: The American Empire Is Dead - How Corporations & Finance Have Ruined the U.S. (2009)
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Following the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, conservatives trumpeted the idea of American imperialism. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568586132/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1568586132&linkCode=as2&tag=tra0c7-20&linkId=306952784b34664924d03d376dd21a7c On October 15, the cover of William Kristol's Weekly Standard carried the headline, "The Case for American Empire." Rich Lowry, editor in chief of the National Review, called for "a kind of low-grade colonialism" to topple dangerous regimes beyond Afghanistan. The columnist Charles Krauthammer declared that, given complete U.S. domination "culturally, economically, technologically and militarily," people were "now coming out of the closet on the word 'empire.'" The New York Times Sunday magazine cover for January 5, 2003, read "American Empire: Get Used To It." In the book "Empire", Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri argued that "the decline of Empire has begun". Hardt says the Iraq War is a classically imperialist war, and is the last gasp of a doomed strategy. This new era still has colonizing power, but it has moved from national military forces based on an economy of physical goods to networked biopower based on an informational and affective economy. The U.S. is central to the development and constitution of a new global regime of international power and sovereignty, termed Empire, but is decentralized and global, and not ruled by one sovereign state; "the United States does indeed occupy a privileged position in Empire, but this privilege derives not from its similarities to the old European imperialist powers, but from its differences." Hardt and Negri draw on the theories of Spinoza, Foucault, Deleuze, and Italian autonomist marxists. Geographer David Harvey says there has emerged a new type of imperialism due to geographical distinctions as well as uneven levels of development.[36] He says there has emerged three new global economic and politics blocs: the United States, the European Union, and Asia centered around China and Russia.[37][verification needed] He says there are tensions between the three major blocs over resources and economic power, citing the 2003 invasion of Iraq, whose goal was to prevent rivals from controlling oil.[38] Furthermore, Harvey argues there can arise conflict within the major blocs between capitalists and politicians due to their opposing economic interests.[39] Politicians, on the other hand, live in geographically fixed locations and are, in the U.S. and Europe, accountable to the electorate. The 'new' imperialism, then, has led to an alignment of the interests of capitalists and politicians in order to prevent the rise and expansion of possible economic and political rivals from challenging America's dominance.[40] Classics professor and war historian Victor Davis Hanson dismisses the notion of an American empire altogether, mockingly comparing it to other empires: "We do not send out proconsuls to reside over client states, which in turn impose taxes on coerced subjects to pay for the legions. Instead, American bases are predicated on contractual obligations — costly to us and profitable to their hosts. We do not see any profits in Korea, but instead accept the risk of losing almost 40,000 of our youth to ensure that Kias can flood our shores and that shaggy students can protest outside our embassy in Seoul." Chalmers Johnson argues that America's version of the colony is the military base.[42] Chip Pitts argues similarly that enduring U.S. bases in Iraq suggest a vision of "Iraq as a colony".[43] While territories such as Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico remain under U.S. control, the U.S. allowed many of its overseas territories or occupations to gain independence after World War II. Examples include the Philippines (1946), the Panama canal zone (1979), Palau (1981), the Federated States of Micronesia (1986), and the Marshall Islands (1986). Most of them still have U.S. bases within their territories. In the case of Okinawa, which came under U.S. administration after the battle of Okinawa during World War II, this happened despite local popular opinion.[44] As of 2003, the United States had bases in over 36 countries worldwide. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism
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It's a fact that China is saving your skin (+money). Can a vampire learn to live in symbiosis?!
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The "age of reason" comes around 7 years old; is it "arrested-development" a US below that?
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truly prescient
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he is absolute right look around you and you will see everything ///north America is gone//if they stop the welfare the hall system it will collapse... and decrease the pensions ///which the pension are just to pass by ///i never seeing north America in the last 5 0 years in this situation like to day//so many people on the streets///and so many kids hungry///only.. and because of greed////
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We should accept CH much more, because he does know better than others what is truth.
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43,396 viewer here
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Wish this guy would run for President !!!
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i stopped watching television at age 20. ive made a lot of bad decisions in my life, but that was one dicision i will never regret. the weird thing is that it was sort of like when i stopped drinking soft drinks. after about 3 months without it, i lost my taste for it.
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Answer to question at 41.30: Bernie Sanders!
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Suskind & Hedges:
"Hey, there's a problem. Let's go and wallow in it." -
Is the Iwo Jima flag raising photo a hoax? I did a little google and didn't see anything.
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I love this man and deeply admire and respect him, He is a true Patriot!
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as one of its citizens i can tell you that the majority of the ppl here are to stupid or too cowardly to do anything!!!!!!!!!!
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Americans gave away their politics, senate, congress and money to Israel. The over familiarisation of American and Israeli relationship has resulted in most of the world's condemnation against a country that is wedded to an evil occupying power funded by American taxpayers.
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******Thank You Chris Hedges********
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What went up must come down whether it is good or bad. The history repeats itself.
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The first victim of the Yankee Empire is the american people.When this nasty empire collapse americans will be the first to regain their freedom.Greetings from the other side of the Atlantic.
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another hour of insightful and truthful confronting facts , basically ignored and avoided by mainstream media of course , partly due to Hedges directed critique towards monopolised and majority right orientated media, the US is served as daily fare and truth sources - he one of the few daring to confront the rapidly approaching end game in the demise of the Empire of the United States , and delivering it in concise factual and often shocking examples of his theories paralelled in recent events and cultural shifts since the US he once lived in before his overseas postings , enableing him perhaps to observe and comment from a safe distance and perspective .
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Take the US back from the psychopaths! You live there and you should own it.Policy is completely disconnected from your interests. Make your country the greatest in the world again. Fight for your true values!
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Only terrorism can stop americans...
For the same reasons americans love guns... All they understand or listen to is threats and murder.... And so that is the only way we should talk to them....
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