The Book
As distinct from other peoples on this earth, most Americans do not recognize – or do not
want to recognize – that the united States dominates the world through its military power.
Due to government secrecy, they are often ignorant of the fact that their government
garrisons the globe. They do not realize that a vast network of American military bases
on every continent except Antarctica actually constitutes a new form of empire.
American leaders now like to compare themselves to imperial Romans, even though they
do not know much about Roman history. The main lesson for the United States ought to be
how the Roman Republic evolved into an empire, in the process destroying its system on
elections for its two consuls (its chief executives), rendering the Roman senate impotent,
ending forever the occasional popular assemblies and legislative comitia that were at the
heart of republican life, and ushering in permanent military dictatorship.
Prosecutors in Chile, Argentina, Spain and France would like to put former Secretary
of State
Henry Kissinger on trial for his support and sponsorship of the military dictatorships
of Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina and Ecuador while, in the 1970s,
they were killing, torturing and “disappearing” their own citizens and those
of neighbouring countries.
Like other empires of the past century, the United States has chosen to live not prudently,
in peace and prosperity, but as a massive military power athwart an angry, resistant globe.
There is one development that could conceivably stop this process: the people could retake
control of Congress, reform it along with the corrupted elections laws that have made it into
a forum for special interests, turn it into a genuine assembly of democratic representatives
and cut off the supply of money to the Pentagon and the secret intelligence agencies.
