http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11&ItemID=12849

From the page: “According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, released on April 26, 2007, some 78% of Americans believe their country to be headed in the wrong direction.
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One major problem of the American social and political system is the failure of the press, especially television news, to inform the public about the true breadth of the unconstitutional activities of the executive branch.
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For the public to play its proper checking role at the ballot box, citizens must know what is done by the government in their names.
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As a result of this failure, democratic oversight of the government by an actively engaged citizenry did not — and could not — occur. The people of the United States became mere spectators as an array of ideological extremists, vested interests, and foreign operatives … allied with the military-industrial complex, and the entrenched interests of the professional military establishment — essentially hijacked the government.
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I believe that there is only one solution to the crisis we face. The American people must make the decision to dismantle both the empire that has been created in their name.
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It is a task at least comparable to that undertaken by the British government when, after World War II, it liquidated the British Empire. By doing so, Britain avoided the fate of the Roman Republic — becoming a domestic tyranny and losing its democracy, as would have been required if it had continued to try to dominate much of the world by force.