Sunday must read

Published on Monday, August 13, 2012 by TomDispatch.com (←this link)

The World (Still) Too Big to Fail

by Tom Engelhardt and Noam Chomsky

In Noam Chomsky’s “Who Owns the World?” -- the most popular TomDispatch post of all time (which means the last 10 years) -- he wrote of one key imperial principle: “The U.S. cannot tolerate ‘any exercise of sovereignty’ that interferes with its global designs.”  Hence, the under-reported but staggering U.S. build-up in the Persian Gulf.

Yes, this is hard to digest, especially if you are unfamiliar with the real history of the US.