American Empire For Dummies
Excellent two part talk on the brutal reality of American Empire by William Blum. As Chomsky has said, the cold war was primarily a war by the United States against the third world and secondarily a war by the Soviets against their satellites. With the collapse of the Soviet Union the US didnt miss a beat - in fact their wars and military budgets increased.

'The whole thing had been a con game. The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of our global attacks. There had never been an International Communist Conspiracy. The enemy was, and remains, any government or movement, or even individual, that stands in the way of the expansion of the American Empire; by whatever name we give to the enemy -- communist, rogue state, drug trafficker, terrorist ...'

American Empire For Dummies
Excellent two part talk on the brutal reality of American Empire by William Blum. As Chomsky has said, the cold war was primarily a war by the United States against the third world and secondarily a war by the Soviets against their satellites. With the collapse of the Soviet Union the US didnt miss a beat - in fact their wars and military budgets increased.

'The whole thing had been a con game. The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of our global attacks. There had never been an International Communist Conspiracy. The enemy was, and remains, any government or movement, or even individual, that stands in the way of the expansion of the American Empire; by whatever name we give to the enemy -- communist, rogue state, drug trafficker, terrorist ...'