An American Empire? Mississippi Black Codes, Eugene Debs Speech, Woodrow Wilson's Speech to Congress in April, 1917.

Mississippi Black Codes of November 1865, Eugene Debs' Speech delivered in Canton, Ohio in June of 1918, and his imprisonment afterward, and especially Woodrow Wilson's Speech to Congress in April, 1917 in order to take a nation into war, make me think of an empire in the making, disguised as a democracy. After about two centuries of empire building, United States is rather close to acquiring total hegemony over the entire world, or is it? The American Empire, …showed first 75 words of 993 total…

…showed last 75 words of 993 total…wouldn't we regret it in the future, if we didn't even try? The coincidences of our lives, and the choices we have made in response to them, have brought us to this point. The hour is ours. It is now time for each and every one of us to step up to the battle line, to ask the important questions, to search our souls for our own answers, and to take action against the empire.