The state of the empire

[aerdil]

harvey has an epic office

[bapyou]

Can't find the second part rederred to onscreen at the end.

[aviomaster]

USA is next nazi GERMANY , 1939 back again , only methods have changed , to conquer the world.

[Antiks72]

Look at those abs, ladies. 6:11

[Antiks72]

Obama sucks, as does Bush. Fuck them both.

[brigadiergerard]

Bush=Caligula

Obama=Claudius

The empire remains-minus a mad ruler.

[log140]

bush & obama: bad cop - good cop!!

[ngonea]

That is correct, US needed a face lift for their badly damaged image but the PR hollywood drama is not fooling all the ppl.

Biden is Cheny #2, chariman CFR, it will be Biz as usual with a softer touch. AfriCom on the loose, watch out Afrika!

[Ryukikon]

In war when an emeny country invades you always have rapings and murders. Even by its own people in non invading times. The question is the volume. To point blame at a specfic empire is ridiculous because the principals still remain and it will happen again and again. It is the People, THe people are the ultimate deciders, People decide their fates collectively.

[buhgoil]

The reporter should not spend so much time on his questions, which appear almost leading or even self-answering, indicating the type of answer he would like to hear.

[godawica]

Red army is a army of rapists and mass-murderers and has a long criminal record, killing over 100 mil. civilians in:

-Crimea1783 -Poland1795

-Armenia1920-Poland1939

-Lithuania,Latvia,Estonia19 40

-Finland1940 -Hungary1956 -Czechoslovakia1968 -Afghanistan1979-1989

-Georgia1919 -Chechnya1994-00

-Georgia 2008

Fascist Putin:"Soviet Union's collapse was the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century".

putin will end in Den Haag and will be punished for his war crimes like his freind milosevic .

[boots920]

How come no mention of Vietnam being started on a false flag, so 50,000 brave Americans died for sweet fck all.

- Cambodia 2 million refugee's died with Nixon illegal bombing the shit out of the country side

- Iraq 50 thousand to 1 million civilians dead, 2 million refugees, 5000 dead soilders, 40,000 mangled soldiers You should mention ALL sides in an arguement, otherwise you might come across as a little bit bias.

[chkan73]

You mean there was a Red Army in the 18th century???? Fighting for the Tsar???

[IgorJanis]

what difference does it make??

it were the same russian rapists and the same primitive russian culture

no difference under which colour thwey murdered!!

[MariaAlos000]

lol! zing.

[erasenrewind95]

GoDDAMN I LOVE THE REAL NEWS.

[fiaskolo]

He didn't mention the haifa pipeline component jewish neocons wanted.

[TheFanonite]

Also, there is the interchangeable claim: the war was for cheap oil; the war was to raise the price of oil for max profit. Which is it?

The war was for Israel; oil has only a peripheral relationship. Neocons wanted to grab Iraq so they can pump oil over quota and break OPECs monopoly and diminish Saudi, and consequently Arab, clout to ensure Israel's regional hegemony.

[GrownupPhan]

There's always the flip. Many think Saddam became too dangerous to big oil when he started selling in Euros, thus threatening to unravel OPEC and their ability to control price. Not to mention making the Euro start to look like a viable alternative reserve currency. That's America's real worst nightmare.

[HudsonRand]

GrownupPhan, I've heard this argument before. I believe it has merit. This is the problem with Iran threatening to flood the market with cheap PetroEuro oil. It'spretty well known that the Saudis threw billions of dollars in gratuity to western leaders to do something about Saddam.

[TheFanonite]

Harvey is a superb analyst but like Naomi Klein he seems to conflate neoconservatism with neoliberalism. He imputes to the neocons a false economic determinism. The chief motor for neoconservatism has been the centrality of Israel and its association with the military industrial complex. As far as energy goes the 'war for oil' theorists never seem to explain why Big Oil, respresented by James Baker, Bush Sr., and cold war geostrategists like Zbig Brzezinski would oppose the war?

[historywillabsolve]

david harvey wrote the best book on neoliberalism, imo. he's a great thinker.

[abilityoflove]

What do people of power want?

More power...

It is an addiction.

We are a civilisation of addicts.

What is your addiction, by the way?

[t4705mb6]

WHAT? WAIT! "..even though they were 100% for it when it occurred.", referring to US citizens supporting the Iraq invasion.

This is FALSE!

Millions upon MILLIONS of US citizens were AGAINST the invasion & were VERY outspoken.

Their opinions & their demonstrations were deliberatley marginalized by fascists!

Censorship kept MOST out of the media!

Most US citizens have never SEEN the 1st Bush election motorcade with TENS of THOUSANDS of sign carrying, screaming, egg throwing....AMERICANS!

[dtothediesel]

Most were for it however. That is likely due to severe propaganda by the gov. And when asked if they supported the invasion, they said they did ONLY if Iraq had WMD or a connection to 9/11.

The american people don't what to do anything beyond participate in maybe 1 march then say fuck it. They are not passionate.

[PersonalJesus348]

what's interesting about your argument the people have no power.

It was the guys who sign the checks. Our friends in congress.

[dtothediesel]

Um, last I checked they elect at least most of their leaders.

[PersonalJesus348]

someone is nearly a decade behind. Diebold.

[primoabruzzi]

Speaking of Diebold, taxpayer,,you have no say in who's president...the clowns who sell us the corporate line are not elected by you..you just think so.. that makes you feel less raped when they collect your illegal income tax.

[t4705mb6]

You are right.

Most US citizens don't know the facts, don't look for the facts and don't want to know the facts.

They are preoccupied with their matrix style lives. In reality, most do what the mass media tell them to do and they do it without question.

If a person delves into reality and finds out the truth, few will listen and even call that person a "traitor" for not following the propaganda line.

People are simply too lazy to run their government as the Constitution intended.

[greatbroad]

I resent it when learned Scholars like this David Harvey repeats: "The U.S. was 100 percent behind the War in Iraq." This is simply not true; the media was 100 percent censored, like today the press may not cover the flag-draped coffins coming home, or the funerals of Iraq War Dead.

Many people came out against this travesty, beginning in Oct 2002 there were huge dissenting rallies in D.C. - I know, because I was there. Many thousands were arrested by police and let go w/o charges.

[DonkeyofHeaven]

Greatbroad, I didn't hear him saying 100% of the American people were for the invasion of Iraq but that the Americans (as a large majority) were 100% in favor of the invasion, which is true.

[greatbroad]

My heavenly donkey, maybe your hearing is better than mine. Why not go to the 4:00 mark and give it a listen, again. I did.

--You see, it's bad enough I'm treated as being invisible by society (middle aged woman), but I choose to take umbrage where my little fires of dissent, (as well as fires of thousands of others), fail to trigger any alarm of those at the top, who "know everything."

[MopacMurtaza]

China have become fascists now, America has always been fascist.

Fascists everywhere, beware homies..

[ho2cultcha]

good interview. i respectfully disagree w/ 2 points. 1) i don't think many americans give a damn about our image abroad - even among inernationalist circles, it's not nearly as pressing an issue as alligning our actions and our professed values - here at home and to a lesser extent abroad, and 2) reigning in [or 'stomping out'] the extremist capitalists who have hijacked our government to the detriment of the vast majority of citizens. the barrage of ultra conserv pov = last gasp + smokescreen.

[pongman]

Hopefully with new technology Oil will cease to be a commodity like whale oil was for the 18th century. You guys in the RealNews should do a report on Nano Solar technology? I think it will finally end the nonsense of exploring for oil and fighting these useless wars.

[abilityoflove]

Good point, but they don't have time. Everybody is obsessed with the macho game who is going to rule the world. This is all a computer game.

Computer end program!

[pongman]

There's plenty of time. It's just a matter of every nation deciding what's the best solution, and run with it. It could be done in less than five years. I would assume every nation that depends on oil could start the agenda going now. Google, Nano solar.

[mpost81]

Great interview thanks realnews.

[SkinSinFilms]

I like that at the end about 'Rebranding' Good one Pepe' It fits so well with the idea that Capitalists see everthing in life as how it relates to the 'Marketplace'. They don't want there to be real Nations only strip malls and The People are nothing more to them than consumers or laborers who live to provide them with wealth. Like in the matrix where humans are nothing more than 'energy units' for the machines.

[catbox109]

Unfortunatly there are still facist polititians and dumbass rednecks that support the war in Iraq.