USA is the Empire, as dispensable as USSR was by Maung Zarni
I have long stopped watching any corporate and mainstream TV or listen to BBC, CNN, etc. Why suffer fools and demagogues who parrot 20th century propaganda that has gone past its sell-by date? Not only are the mainstream Americans (and any other imperialist and neo-imperialist western public still soaking up in the 20th century propaganda, or various strains of Orientalism — even after Gaza — they (for Americans and their European dependencies) are still fighting the 20th century war against what the (arrogant) American economist Paul Krugman called “a 3rd class power”, namely the Islamic Republic of Iran. That 3rd class power - anchored in its 5,000 (or some say 7,000) years of civilizations (that have survived the historical cyclical time of war and peace - has decisively defeated the greatest military in history. There is absolutely nothing the United States, militarily, can do to bring 93-million Iranians, with their rebirth of revolutionary spirit. That includes nuking the c...