OUR EMPIRE

"We are coming to a twenty-first century crisis in America's informal empire, an empire based on the projection of military power to every corner of the world and the use of American capital and markets to force global economic integration on our terms, at whatever costs to others ... What form our imperial crisis is likely to take years or even decades from now is, of course, impossible to know. But history indicates that, sooner or later, empires reach such moments, and it seems reasonable  to assume that we will not miraculously escape that fate."

Chalmers Johnson
 Blowback: the cost and consequences of American Empire (2000)

Welcome to the Midcoast Senior College Blog on the American Empire

This course is given in Spring 2014 discussing the book, Dismantling the Empire, by Chalmers Johnson. Johnson states: " It is absolutely certain that the estimated trillion dollars a year spent on the defense establishment will make it almost impossible for the United States to avoid the ultimate limit on imperialism: overstretch and insolvency."

Please view the following Video prior to class: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UAVWgSUUwE

You may also like to see:
http://www.theghostsofjeju.net/spirit-gangjeong-new-episode/

You might like to subscribe  (free) to:
https://www.youtube.com/user/bravenewfilms?sub_confirmation=1&src_vid=DLSneV-8u_U&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_1566043411

Wilkerson explains who really creates foreign policy as best I have ever seen:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11839

There will be discussions and resources on this blog placed by 
the instructor and the participants.