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Colossus

the Price of America's Empire
Oct 27, 2013StarGladiator rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
"Niall Ferguson brings his renowned historical and economic depth ...." so starts the description of this bombastic claptrap of a book! Describing an author like Ferguson, as having historical depth, an author who attacks David Ickes in his preface to his puff piece on the Rothschild family, is hilarious! (Like a scholar attacking Alex Jones in America?) Ferguson, long a member of the lobbyist group for the international super-rich, the Bretton Woods Committee (brettonwoods.org), begins with the assumption that empire is a good thing, then seeks to justify the American empire? Many countries and peoples in the present, and in the past, would stridently disagree with such perverse sentiments. Did the victims of the Roman Empire, the Mongols' empire, consider themselves fortunate? One strongly doubts such pomposity of unsound cognition! The US has aggressively, in a most hostile fashion, exerted its authority and hegemony around the world, from the instigation of coups in democratic Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s, to the present day overthrow of Zelaya in Honduras (he just wanted to raise the national minimum wage by a few cents), to sanctions against Iran for their trading oil in Euros instead of the US dollar! Read P.J. Cain's and A.G. Hopkins' masterful work on the British Empire as a financial empire, and you will arrive at a much superior picture of the American Empire than you will ever get from drivel from Ferguson! (Their book, at least, was based on scholarship!)