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the end of world war 2 marked the beginning of the american empire.
the war on "terror" marks the end of the american empire.
the damage the gwot et al did to the position of the united states in the name of defending the position of the united states is pretty astonishing. it bespeaks a fundamental ideological problem, the kind of ideological problem that seems almost characteristic of fading empires, as if there was some kind of over-arching plotline that empires repeat.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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