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America's Empire of Bases

By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. Posted January 15, 2004.


America's 'Baseworld' is an overstretched, heavily militarized empire whose leaders are ready to stretch even further yet -- even, it seems, to the moon.

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