The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
A Re-Interpretation of History, Economics and Philosophy: 1492-2006
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This book was published in 2007 but forecasted the economic decline of the American Empire which we are observing today. Unlike western historians who claim that American invasions are required for protecting freedoms and fighting terrorism and communism this author correctly explains that all American invasions and wars, without exceptions, have been started by the American Empire for territorial gains and imperial expansion. Far from promoting democracy, American imperialism changes regimes which are democratic and impose ruthless dictators will to work with the American Empire to exploit these American "colonies." The book explains the global shift from the west to Asia. Where once Asia's over-population prevented economic growth it is now the engine of its economic growth. For five centuries before low income people moved from poor and rich countries alike to the developed industrialized world to seek higher paying jobs. Since the accidental discovery of the Mexican maqiladoras the developed west found ways of moving production from the First World to the Third World to be competitive by reducing labour cost. This global shift has been helped by containerization and the internet. China has been polluting its own economy to produce industrial goods for the west. The book explains why the growing trade deficit between the US and China has nothing to do with the under valuation of the Yuan. As the recent debt crisis show the US has been living beyond its means for decades now. It can only do that by importing more than it exports. The evidence shows that the US has been borrowing heavily from China, Japan, OPEC nations and Caribbean bankers, among others. This borrowing requires lenders to buy $US which appreciates the $US. This higher value for the $US reduces US exports and increase US imports. This deficit in trade is necessary to offset the capital surplus from the foreign loans. The US trade deficit will only fall when the US starts to live within its means and start paying for its interninable wars by imposing taxes on its own citizens. American obsession with wars and over-consumption of food, useless gadgets, and every conceivable disposable junk, not only degradates the planet but is bankrupting its citizens and its government. It is this ridiculous misuse of its limited economic resources which will bring about its impending demise. The book shows why the US was never a peaceful, freedom loving democracy or republic. It began as a warmongering slave aristocracy and has remained largely an elitist and racist military-industrail complex. President Barack Obama lives up to his role as a dedicated warmongering commander-in-chief with no more vision for change than any previous American president. Good, smart Americans who can think outside the box are never elected to political office. The system which is still in place was set up by the original founding fathers. No American president ever deviated from the goal of expanding the empire by military means and false propaganda. No country has ever been a threat to the American Empire. But the American Empire has been, and continues to be, a threat to every freedom loving nation.
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This objective and rigorous re-visiting of the history of the US as the world's super imperiaist and "mock" democracy comes at an opportune time. the book 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 Phiippines, Mexico, Canada and numerous other countries during its short history as a world power. Thos emotives, 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 US and exerts economic, military and political power in the US.
The book begins with the documentation of the exploitation of First Nations, Black Americans and poor White Americans by a 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 US and the deeply ingrained desire for war mongering in the American psyche. It explains why the positino of commander-in-chief has greater importance to American voters than the position of president and why the primary qualifications for the job of president is successful war mongering. The author takes its readers through the complicit aid of England and France in enabling the US to dominate the continent and how failure of European cooperation and two disatrous World Wars in the twentieth century enabled the US to dominate the world. The author also explains how and why the US media supports the domestic and world wide propaganda which conditions people, especially Americans, to believe the lies of American governments and reject all objective criticisms of US war mongering, 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 US 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 US and its military might to crush worldwide democratic dissent.
About the Author
Rocky Mirza was born in the English colony of Guyana. As the third oldest of 12 children he was forced to end his formal education at 14 to supplement the family income with a full time job at the post office. Rocky emigrated to London at the age of 18. The transition from rural life in a Third World country to life in one of the world's major metropolis' was surprisingly easy. Rocky worked briefly in the British civil service as an executive officer after completing his secondary education through a combination of distance education and evening classes. Three years employment in London qualified Rocky for a municipal grant which financed his undergraduate honours degree from London University.
Rocky returned to Guyana to work as an economist with the Ministry of Economic Development and teach part-time at the University of Guyana. He was disillusioned with Guyana's slow pace of economic development and emigrated to Canada. A teaching assistantship financed his Ph.D. in economics at Simon Fraser University. He joined the economics faculty of Thompson Rivers University in 1980. He has co-authored both a Principles of Microeconomics and a Principles of Macroeconomics textbook.