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Few Americans today understand how the United States came to be owned by a London-backed neoconservative/right-wing alliance that grew out of the institutional turmoil of the post-Vietnam era. Even fewer understand how its internal mission to maintain the remnants of the old British Empire gradually overcame American democracy and replaced it with a “national security” bureaucracy of its own design.... Weekend reading, if you like intrigue.Disclaimer: I can't voucher for the factual claims, but I assume that the Counterpunch editors did due diligence before accepting it.CounterpunchThe Grand Illusion of Imperial Power Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: American Empire, British Empire
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Few Americans today understand how the United States came to be owned by a London-backed neoconservative/right-wing alliance that grew out of the institutional turmoil of the post-Vietnam era. Even fewer understand how its internal mission to maintain the remnants of the old British Empire gradually overcame American democracy and replaced it with a “national security” bureaucracy of its own design.... Weekend reading, if you like intrigue.Disclaimer: I can't voucher for the factual claims, but I assume that the Counterpunch editors did due diligence before accepting it.CounterpunchThe Grand Illusion of Imperial Power Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
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Few Americans today understand how the United States came to be owned by a London-backed neoconservative/right-wing alliance that grew out of the institutional turmoil of the post-Vietnam era. Even fewer understand how its internal mission to maintain the remnants of the old British Empire gradually overcame American democracy and replaced it with a “national security” bureaucracy of its own design....Weekend reading, if you like intrigue.
Disclaimer: I can't voucher for the factual claims, but I assume that the Counterpunch editors did due diligence before accepting it.
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The Grand Illusion of Imperial Power
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould