Abby Martin joins CN Live! to discuss her newest film, The Earth’s Greatest Enemy, about U.S. militarism, empire and environmental destruction.Watch the replay.
There have been about 70 major empires in world history beginning with the Akkadian Empire founded by Sargon the Great in Mesopotamia 2334 BCE.
The United States Empire may well be the last.
A continuation of the British empire after breaking with London, the Americans conquered their own continent in genocide; built its early economy on slavery; seized remaining parts of the decrepit Spanish Empire and then dominated the non-communist parts of the world following the Second World War.
Since the Cold War ended, the U.S. has sought to establish total global dominance, seeking to control its two largest obstacles – falsely portrayed as threats – Russia and China.
In the process, as a global empire even greater than Britain’s, the United States has killed millions of civilians in dozens of wars since 1945, has overthrown at least 60 governments in pursuit of total world domination and has built more than 800 military bases on every continent, except Antarctica.
The Roman Empire left parts of Southern Europe permanently deforested, and lead residue in soil from Roman days can still be found. The British Empire’s deforestation and soil erosion was greater and included the spread of European diseases to its colonies.
Unlike any empire before it, the United States military is not only carrying out industrial-scale killing of civilians, it is accelerating the destruction of the natural environment upon which human and animal life depend.
It is an Empire of Death never seen before. If it continues, it will be the Last Empire on earth.
Abby Martin, director of the film The Earth’s Greatest Enemy, is a jounalist, filmmaker and activist. After her show Breaking the Set on RT she produced The Empire Files for Telsur. In 2019, she released the film documentary The Empire Files: Gaza Fights for Freedom.
Guest: Abby Martin. Hosts: Joe Lauria & Cathy Vogan. Producer: Cathy Vogan
[See: A Monster Movie Takes On US Militarism – Consortium News]
What Carl Sagan had to say about the subject back in 1990:
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Thanks for interviewing Abby–I’ve been following her for years. I understand Joes question concerning diplomatic temperance in presenting an issue–Yes, I’d probably be more careful, but we are dealing with Abby Martin–the fire-breathing queen of the resistance. And that is what I love about her.
WWII was the attempt for world dominance and likely anticipating the nuclear weapon and China was already a fear to wealth in China the FDR inherited. Now we are attempting the failed strategic planning of the 20th century in a few century in chick it is now definitely suicidal misuse of our one true Planet Earth.
Love you Abby bad ass journalist! Thank you CN.
“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“All your seasick sailors, they’re all rowing home
Your empty-handed army is all going home
Your lover who just walked out the door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor
The carpet too is moving under you
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue”
– “It’s all over now, Baby Blue”, – Bob Dylan, America’s Nobel Prize winning poet.
Oggi la portaerei americana….