This objective and rigorous re-visiting of the history of the U.S. as the world’s super imperialist and “mock” democracy comes at an opportune time. The Rise and Fall of the American Empire explains with logical integrity why the world is finally on the right path when it questions the true motives of Americans for invading Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Grenada, Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, the Philippines, Mexico, Canada and numerous other countries during its short history as a world power. Those motives, far from being its professed motives of spreading democracy and republican values, are those of military industrial complex determined to dominate the world and exploit its resources for the benefit of a small minority of Americans who owns the wealth of the U.S. and exerts economic, military and political power in the U.S.
The book begins with the documentation of the exploitation of First Nations, Black Americans and poor White Americans by small power elite, founded by the landed gentry of Virginia and the merchant class of Massachusetts, Philadelphia and New York. It explains the root cause of racism in the U.S. and the deeply ingrained desire for warmongering in the American psyche. It explains why the position of commander-in-chief has greater importance to American voters than the position of president and why the primary qualification for the job of president is successful warmongering.
The author takes its readers through the complicit aid of England and France in enabling the U.S. to dominate the continent and how failure of European cooperation and two disastrous World Wars in the twentieth century enabled the U.S. to dominate the world. The author also explains how and why the US media supports the domestic and worldwide propaganda which conditions people, especially Americans, to believe the lies of American governments and reject all objective criticisms of US warmongering, commission war crimes around the world, overthrowing of democratically elected governments, installation of ruthless dictators, the spreading of global terrorism and the arming and military training of terrorists. The widely held naivety that the U.S. believes in freedom of the press, free speech and peaceful expression of dissent, makes it difficult, if not impossible to convince people of the ruthless methods used by the U.S. and its military might to crush worldwide democratic dissent.