The On-Going Decline of the US Empire

The very public on-going meltdown in Washington DC around President Trump is symptomatic of something more serious for the future of the Republic. The modern US has often been called an “Empire” like the Roman Empire, which rose and then declined and fell. This comparison is far from perfect, but at least in form Washington now reminds of late Rome. As Edward Gibbon wrote in The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire: “In the dissolute days of the empire, every sense of honor and virtue had been lost in the general profligacy of manners.”

US Foreign Policy Is Like a Mafia Racket

It’s time to call a spade a spade. Australian independent Journalist Caitlin johnstone recently wrote an important truth:

"The US empire is responsible for most of our world’s problems. It says so much about the strength of the imperial propaganda machine that this isn’t more obvious to more people."

Because of this propaganda that Western audiences have been subjected to for so long, here is a reminder of numbers that speak for themselves:

"America has been in 19 wars since World War II, but we will list the death toll from three of the bloodiest conflicts: The Korean War, The Vietnam War and wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The total death toll of people killed by American troops in all these wars put together is over 12 million."