Empires and Boomerangs

Photo by Philipp Hubert

State-sanctioned violence from the corporate-government subdues the working populations at home and abroad. Call it the imperial model of society under capitalism’s grow or die drive. Americans do not receive formal education about this basic building block of empires, now or before.

Instead, Americans receive indoctrination about Uncle Sam spreading democracy and freedom around the world, a distraction from the corporate-state using violence to grab land...