A U.S. Military Dictatorship?

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A fascinating interview with Chalmers Johnson.

It is the most powerful nation in history and it has the most powerful army in the world. Its economy has surprised the doomsayers many times. It's home to some of the best and the brightest and it polarizes opinion in the rest of the world.

From the democracy that it celebrates to the military might that it wields, some argue that the U.S. is less of a Republic these days and more of an empire. And that, says Charlmers Johnson, means Americans have some decisions to make if they don't want their country to go the route of fallen empires.

Chalmers Johnson has been writing about this tension over the U.S.'s global influence for years now. His new book Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic completes a trilogy on - what he calls - the American Empire. He joined us from his home in California.

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