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Noam Chomsky on American Empire

Many Americans are not accustomed to the idea that America sits atop a global empire, but with military bases and forces spread out across the world, interventions in dozens of countries – there’s simply no other way to describe our “empire.”  Expansion is the path to security, and to achieve security you have to control everything of value.  This is the blueprint that has guided US leaders for decades, but is this empire worth building – and at what cost?