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	The American Empire Project
		Americans have long believed that the very notion of empire is an offense against our democratic heritage, yet in recent months, these two words -- American empire -- have been on everyone's lips.
		According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, released on April 26, 2007, some 78% of Americans believe their country to be headed in the wrong direction.
		His trilogy is a monumental study of American foreign and military problems in the 21st century.
	www.americanempireproject.com (1439 words)

	American Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American Empire, and related phrases such as U.S. hegemony, etc., are terms sometimes used to describe the historical expansionism and the current political, economic, and cultural influence of the United States on a global scale.
		In another sense, the U.S. is indisputably an empire, because it possesses sovereignty over territories which it has not annexed as states, such as the Puerto Rico and American Samoa, and in the past the Philippines and Guam.
		"Benevolent Assimilation" The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Empire (3497 words)

	Part I, An American Empire
		It was enough that we demonstrate a willingness to shed American blood to end Iraq’s aggression against its neighbors, once it became clear that Iraq’s neighbors themselves were prepared to shed the blood of their children to halt the aggression.
		The Soviet Union, the "Evil Empire," as President Reagan termed it in 1982, began with an idyllic vision of harmony and diversity, in a communal dictatorship of the proletariat.
		For the American Empire to succeed in producing a Pax Americana in the 21st century, we must first recognize that a posture appropriate in a world at war is inappropriate in a world at peace.
	www.polyconomics.com /searchbase/amemp1.htm (1835 words)

	Victor Davis Hanson on American Empire on National Review Online
		American suburbanites, inner-city residents, and rural townspeople all will fret because a French opportunist or a Saudi autocrat says that we are acting inappropriately.
		Most empires chafe at the cost of their rule and complain that the expense is near-suicidal.
		The story of the Roman Empire is one of shrinking legions, a debased currency, and a chronically bankrupt imperial treasury.
	www.nationalreview.com /hanson/hanson112702.asp (1801 words)

	Foldvary: The American Empire
		The last obstacle to American dominance in Europe was Serbia, and the Clinton administration fought the Serbs in Bosnia and Kosovo to crush this futile resistance to American might.
		Many Americans don't like the empire, but they maintain it by voting for the major party they think is the lesser evil.
		Ultimately it is the American voter who maintains the empire by voting for the illusion of a lesser imperial evil.
	www.progress.org /2004/fold360.htm (944 words)

	t r u t h o u t - William Rivers Pitt \| The Third Stage of American Empire
		While other global empires were on the wane – the Spanish empire was essentially dissolved with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1898, while the French and British empires were being attacked and slowly rolled back – this American empire became more muscular with each passing day.
		American armies and navies were essentially dismantled in the aftermath of the 'War to End All Wars,' and the 1930s saw the near-collapse of the American economic system.
		The American people were mesmerized by the vision of their flag rising next to but just a little higher than the red Soviet banner.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/030105Z.shtml (1982 words)

	The Rise of the American Empire
		By the time the last state passed its compulsory schooling law in 1918 and another generation served out its prison term in government schools, the USG was able to institute war socialism and jail war dissenters in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
		The previous European empires that dissolved with the world wars called themselves empires, but the American Empire can never be admitted.
		The American Empire ended with the Progressive Era according to court historians.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/cuthbert1.html (2701 words)

	The U.S. Global Empire by Laurence M. Vance
		The Roman Empire controlled the Celtic regions of Northern Europe and all of the Hellenized states that bordered the Mediterranean.
		The Mongol Empire, which was the largest contiguous empire in history, stretched from Southeast Asia to Europe.
		In the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire stretched from the Persian Gulf in the east to Hungary in the northwest; and from Egypt in the south to the Caucasus in the north.
	www.lewrockwell.com /vance/vance8.html (702 words)

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