''A Dying Empire''

From Foreign Policy Journal
By Jim Miles

''At one point in my youth, it became clear that the U.S. was a violent force in the world, probably as I watched the Vietnam war news on the local TV news. Later, it also became clear that its whole history is one of violence, at home and abroad. More recently I had naively hoped that as the U.S. Empire goes through its death throes, it would quit the world peacefully. The latter thought was more a suspension of belief of my knowledge that I knew violence was the U.S. way of life, that I feared what the end of empire might bring. My current thinking is that through this course of historical violence to all people who oppose the corporate state—from the laborers and workers at home, to the farmers, workers, and laborers in foreign countries—the ending of the empire is in process and is and will continue to be violent.''

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