Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination.… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I don't like the triumphalism of the American narrative, this kind of "chosen people" complex that American people have, so it's inspiring… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of Washington's global attacks. There had never been… — William Blum Copy Share Image
Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“For Obama, however, it is good for America to have less influence. In tune with his progressive and anti-colonial ideology, Obama regards… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire. — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
“The objection to the American empire is not that it is an empire per se, but that, arguably unlike that which was… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
“The tide of our national meanness rises incrementally, one brutalizing experience at a time, inside one person at a time in a… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
