“Four sorrows are certain to be visited on the United States:
o First, there will be a state of perpetual war.
o Second is a loss of democracy and Constitutional rights as the presidency eclipses Congress and is itself transformed from a co-equal ‘executive branch’ of government into a military junta.
o Third is the replacement of truth by propaganda, disinformation, and the glorification of war, power, and the military legions.
o Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.”
– Chalmers Johnson, "The Sorrows of Empire," 2005
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“History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.”
- Chalmers Johnson
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