Graham Fuller: USA Dangerous in Decline

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Graham Fuller
Graham Fuller

Dangers of a Declining Global Power

EXTRACT

The decline of US power abroad cannot be separated from many domestic failings: deadlocked governance, bloated military budgets and their huge opportunity costs, the rise of the military-industrial-security state and its massive cash infusions into Congress; an impoverished political spectrum that begins on the moderate right of center (Obama) and caroms on over into various degrees of crazy right. There is virtually no left of center—indeed the very word “left” borders on the obscene in the American political lexicon. And we have the intellectual isolation and distortion inherent in America’s vision of the rest of the world. A “mainstream” corporate-dominated media that shields the population from distasteful global realities. The belief that America itself represents “reality.” The security-state mentality that promotes paranoia and fear. The belief that the American imperium is ageless, on an eternal mission without bounds, fundamentally benign, and a universal good.

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Tip of the Hat to Berto Jongman.

See Also:

Berto Jongman: Will US Collapse Soon? Robert Steele: Should EU Be Thinking About Post-US NATO?

Review: Griftopia–Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

Robert Steele: Homeland Security – The Much Bigger Picture

SchwartzReport: USG Held in Low Esteem

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