{"id":294745,"date":"2025-05-05T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=294745"},"modified":"2025-05-05T07:29:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T06:29:35","slug":"evil-empire-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/05\/evil-empire-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for the USA?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>4 May 2025\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; In politics, as in medicine, a cure based on a false diagnosis is almost always worthless, often worsening the condition that is supposed to be healed. The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public ills. Most of them can be traced to the militarism and imperialism that have led to the near-collapse of our Constitutional system of checks and balances. Unfortunately, none of the remedies proposed so far by US politicians or analysts addresses the root causes of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/tomdispatch.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6cb39ff0b1f670c349f828c73&amp;id=bacbe827f5&amp;e=71b5e5aa05\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/tomdispatch.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D6cb39ff0b1f670c349f828c73%26id%3Dbacbe827f5%26e%3D71b5e5aa05&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1746509666969000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2zw3uiF_Lv7ZelkYS6fBAM\">NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll<\/a>, released on April 26, 2007, some 78% of North Americans believe their country to be headed in the wrong direction. Only 22% think the Bush administration&#8217;s policies make sense, the lowest number on this question since October 1992, when George H. W. Bush was running for a second term &#8212; and lost. What people don&#8217;t agree on are the reasons for their doubts and, above all, what the remedy &#8212; or remedies &#8212; ought to be.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tomdispatch.com\/evil-empire-2\/?utm_source=TomDispatch&amp;utm_campaign=d1ef95c16a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_04_09_41&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-d1ef95c16a-308810425#more\" >TO CONTINUE READING Go to Original &#8211; tomdispatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 May 2025\u00a0&#8211; Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for the USA?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":156451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[3281,1126,1050,70],"class_list":["post-294745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-evil-empire","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294746,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294745\/revisions\/294746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}