How to Deal with America's Empire of Bases by Chalmers Johnson
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090720/johnson
A Modest Proposal for Garrisoned Lands
By Chalmers Johnson - July 2, 2009
The US Empire of Bases--at $102 billion a year already the world's costliest military enterprise--just got a good deal more expensive. As a start, on May 27, we learned that the State Department will build a new "embassy" in Islamabad, Pakistan, which at $736 million will be the second priciest ever constructed, only $4 million less, if cost overruns don't occur, than the Vatican City-sized one the Bush administration put up in Baghdad. The State Department was also reportedly planning to buy the five-star Pearl Continental Hotel (complete with pool) in Peshawar, near the border with Afghanistan, to use as a consulate and living quarters for its staff there...
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Good article...
Do these people deserve to know how and why their loved ones were murdered? Do we deserve to know how and why 9/11 happened?
This is the Empire
spreading OUT.
Spreading
with the tentacles of deceit and deception.
WARNING:
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It sure would be nice to swing Chalmers Johnson over to 9/11 truth.
The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.