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How Can the U.S. Be an Empire and a Democracy at the Same Time? by Bill Moyers

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The following is a transcript from Bill Moyers' interview with journalist Mark Danner on his new book, Stripping Bare the Body, broadcast on PBS's Bill Moyers Journal.

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'Empire of Illusion' by Chris Hedges Reviewed

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Real power in America doesn't reside in citizens, or the government, but in corporations.

So argues Chris Hedges in his new book, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Nation Books).

Hardly a revelation.

Anticorporate jeremiads have become a dime a dozen in this, the year of our economic discontent.

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Darkness Renewed: Terror as a Tool of Empire by Chris Floyd

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Here's a purely hypothetical scenario. Let's say you were a dedicated imperial militarist who believed that your country's security, prestige and financial interests could best be served by war and the ever-present threat of war.

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