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fallout on January 26, 2006 - 10:37am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I recently had a little exposure to just this, when I traveled to Australia (our ally, fellow contributor of troops to the Iraq debacle, and home to my wife's sister and her husband).  Asked by an Australian customs and immigration official at the Sydney airport "Which country I was from, I replied "America", and handed him my passport.
He grinned slyly and said,
"Ah, United States of the World, eh mate?"

The US has apparently returned to the concept of colonial imperialism, just under a new guise, while at home we slide ever further to the right, toward the kind of creeping fascism (in Mussolini's sense of the word, the merging of corporate and State) George Orwell worried about.

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scorned by the cockroach on January 26, 2006 - 1:45pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The articles at these two links seem pertinent here.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=434&Itemid=1

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gore-vidal/president-jonah_b_14439.html

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fallout on January 26, 2006 - 3:08pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Good articles, sir. Thank you.
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