[Johan Galtung] The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
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English - May 02, 2024 21:00 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 473 ratingsNews Government politics news Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Empires come and go. They’re sometimes long, sometimes short. But ultimately they fall. Hubris, incredible arrogance, is often the element that brings the mighty down. The U.S. is not immune from decline. With its ruinous wars, bloated Pentagon budget, military bases all over the earth, grotesque levels of inequality and an economy that spews red ink we are witnessing its diminishing power. Recall the words of President Eisenhower in his 1961 Farewell Address. He warned of the dangers posed by “the military-industrial-complex” and its “potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” Recorded at the University of California.