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"Four sorrows ... are certain to be visited on the United States. Their cumulative effect guarantees that the U.S. will cease to resemble the country outlined in the Constitution of 1787. First, there will be a state of perpetual war, leading to more terrorism against Americans wherever they may be and a spreading reliance on nuclear weapons among smaller nations as they try to ward off the imperial juggernaut. Second is a loss of democracy and Constitutional rights as the presidency eclipses Congress and is itself transformed from a co-equal 'executive branch' of government into a military junta. Third is the replacement of truth by propaganda, disinformation, and the glorification of war, power, and the military legions. Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens."

Chalmers Johnson, Sorrows of Empire

Books

The Age of American Unreason - Susan Jacoby

Hoax: the difference in world view between the U.S. and everybody else - Nicholas Von Hoffman

Taking America Back - edited by Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage

Myth America: Democracy vs. Capitalism - William H. Boyer

The Middle Mind - Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves - Curtis White

Articles

A Day in the Life of Joe Republican

Getting Through the Bad Times - Sam Smith (11/04)
America the ignorant (12/01)

The United States of America Has Gone Mad - by John le Carré
Letter to America by Ariel Dorfman
Letter to America by Breyten Breytenbach
Nelson Mandela Blasts Bush on Iraq, Warns of 'Holocaust'
The War at Home
What Kind Of America?
A Letter to America - Margaret Atwood
The U.S. Betrays Its Core Values
W.'s Christian Nation - How Bush promotes religion and erodes
the separation of church and state
The Wealth Divide - The Growing Gap in the United States Between the Rich and the Rest
What Is Happening in America?
America Unhinged
Pox Americana (1/05)
The Quiet Storm - Blowin' In The Wind Of Cultural Decay
The Mindless American: A Tragedy In The Making (10/05)
Majority of Americans Reject Theory of Evolution (10/05)
The Darwin exhibition frightening off corporate sponsors (11/05)
Where Are the Good Americans? (2/06)
America's rags-to-riches dream an illusion: study (4/06)
America's Blinders - Howard Zinn (4/06)
The Clownification of America (5/06)
Learning to be a Killer - Remembering Marine Corps boot camp (9/06)
The Shame of the Nation: A Collective Perversion (10/06)
Torture Is Now Part of the American Soul (12/06)
America Has Become Incarceration Nation (12/06)
Battling Modern Day Jim Crow: the "Jena Six" (8/07)
The World's Sole Superpower in Fast Decline (8/07)
What Do We Stand For? (2/08)
Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We? (7/08)
The Myth of American Moral Authority (8/08)
Has the West Reached Its Limits? (9/08)
The United States and the World - Where Are We Headed? (10/08)
The New American Century; Cut short by 92 years (10/08)
The Triumph of Ignorance: How Morons Succeed in U.S. Politics (10/08)
America the Illiterate (11/08)
The Brightest Are Not Always the Best (12/08)
How Constant War Became the American Way of Life (7/09)
"America's Priorities" by the Beltway elite - war in Afghanistan is necessity, health care is luxury (10/09)

Is America Sick? - link

Democracy in America

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