Time to face facts. The U.S. has shed the democratic principles that at its founding made it the envy of the rest of the world. It is now the world’s war machine, a pariah of violence and destruction spending more on war than China, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, Germany, France, South Korea, Japan, and Ukraine — combined. Its foreign policy has devolved into regime change wars, invasion of sovereign countries and imposition of economic sanctions that bring starvation and death to the world’s people. Domestically, the birth of the national security state has made the American people the most surveilled among the world’s advanced nations. Censorship, the handmaiden of surveillance, has become a new cottage industry. The repression of speech too massive a task for the government alone has been subcontracted to powerful corporations, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon. The U.S. is a declining nation using its overwhelming military might to barely hold on to the title of the world’s hegemon. Rewinding the historical tape one hundred years, we are reminded that the U.S. has been treading this dangerous path for the last one hundred years. (if not since 1777). Want to see history repeating itself with disastrous consequences for the mass of Americans? Check out “Watch out. There may be G-Men Under Your Bed.”
