Preventing Peace to Wage War

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Martin Luther King once called America "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." Imagine what he'd say now.

It's an out-of-control menace threatening humanity. It's the world's leading human rights abuser. Lawlessness defines its agenda. So doesn't waging war on peace to assure unchallenged global dominance. 

Chalmers Johnson said we can have empire or democracy, but not both. Rome made the wrong choice and perished. Before his death, he said America's heading for "a military dictatorship or its civilian equivalent."

He explained facts too important to ignore, including:

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• a nation with no threats permanently at war;

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• unaccountability on all policies at all levels;

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• the most secretive, intrusive, repressive government in our history under either party;

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• homeland social decay;

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• an unprecedented widening wealth disparity;

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• a de facto one-party state with two wings;

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• the absence of checks and balances;

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• a secret unaccountable intelligence establishment with near-limitless black budget funding;

(Note: despite 16 spy agencies, the Pentagon created another called the Defense Clandestine Service to work closely with CIA. It'll focus on major targets to assure "officers are in the right locations to pursue" key military aims.)

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• a dominant corporate-controlled media serving as a quasi-state ministry of information and propaganda;

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• a cesspool of unchecked corruption, stemming from incestuous business-government ties; and

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• a more out-of-control military-industrial complex than perhaps Eisenhower ever could have imagined.

America, said Johnson, is plagued by the same dynamic that doomed past empires unwilling to change. Ahead he feared authoritarian rule, loss of personal freedom, and ruin.

Waging endless wars combined with neglected homeland needs and police state laws to quash dissent assures it. The worst of all possible worlds awaits.

Target Syria

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