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Originally posted by djohnsto77
Spiegel is famous for its over-the-top anti-Americanism.
Originally posted by crgintx
First off, the US isn't now and has never been an Empire therefore they aren't imperialist.
The Empire as viable political function has ceased to exist.
We are currently residing in world where most national governing bodies have far less social and political influence than major multinational corporations. Want proof of this?
Just look at the current political situation in the US and the EU. Multinational corporations have packs of lawyers in every country in the developed world who have virtually written every piece of trade and tax legislation enacted in the last 40-50 years.
Capitalism, Communism and Socialism are now quaint and obsolete economic philosophies that only academics spout out trying to impress the uneducated or unwise.
Any one believes that the Shrub is actually in charge or has designed some plan to dominate the Globe is either crazy or naive in the extreme.
Corporations are dictating policy to every gov't on Earth.
There's a few signs of hope out there like this means of communication. But every time I hear some so called 'indy' author or news reporter call the US imperialistic, it makes me want to pull what little hair I've got left.
Especially since their probably typing their message out on a corporate built computer powered by corporate run electric utility and send it out over corporate controlled communications network. Can't you see the irony?