5 False Myths About the United States

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)

1. The U.S. is a democracy (or a democratic republic, a government that respresents its citizenry).

Scientific studies have been done of only one country — the U.S. — to determine the extent to which its Government represents its citizenry (legislates and enforces policies that a majority of the U.S. public endorse), and consistently these studies have shown that America is a dictatorship by the richest 1% of the richest 1%, against the poorer 99.99% of Americans. America’s Government represents only its few wealthiest citizens — it is an aristocracy, definitely NOT a democracy (as it claims to be).

2. The U.S. is an economically extraordinarily successful country that other countries ought to copy in order to themselves have a successful economy.

The empirical data on that are unambiguous, clear, and uniform, displaying that in terms of America’s economic performance, America has, at least since 1980, and overwhelmingly since 1998, performed significantly worse than the entire world’s economy — the average of all of its nations — and that America’s ‘allies’ or (actually) colonies (such as the nations in the EU, Japan, and South Korea) — have likewise performed worse than the global average. Especially Japan and the EU have performed abysmally. The American economic copycats (America’s colonies) are copying economic failure.

3. America’s military is the world’s best.

How can a military that has lost every war since 1975 — all of its hundreds of invasions since it escaped from Vietnam and Cambodia in 1975 and from Lebanon in 1976 (lost every one of them except the one to defeat Iraq in Kuwait in 1990) be the world’s best, if its track-record is the world’s worst?  America isn’t only the world’s most aggressive country (and recognized as such), but its aggressions are the most destructive because its invasions — such as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and now Gaza — practically never stop. ‘Victory’ is always “the light at the end of the tunnel” that always turns out to be far longer than U.S. propaganda claims it to be. The boasting is based on lies.

4. America has no empire, but instead has allies — it’s admired, not feared.

This is a terminological deceit, as-if the U.S. Government isn’t constantly controlling every one of its ‘allies’ in essentially the same ways that John Perkins’s classic Confessions of an Economic Hit Man revealed in 2004. Even new additions to the U.S.-Government-controlled NATO anti-Russian military alliance are like this, largely by means of U.S.-and-allied control over the ‘news’-media in those countries (called ‘allies’ instead of colonies, because their aristocracies have long been subordinate to America’s aristocracy). For example, the addition of Ukraine to the American empire in 2014 destroyed that country. No empire in history has been voluntary: they’re all created and maintained by various means of coercion. And America has no allies; it has colonies. Its ‘alliances’ are the countries that it has captured. This is the American empire. The term “alliance” is America’s euphemism for the U.S. empire.

5. Most of America’s Congress-members and Presidents aren’t psychopaths.

Essentially all of them are psychopaths. For example, in the case of their policies on Iraq, not only George W. Bush but Bill Clinton, and America’s Congress under both Presidents, destroyed Iraq. For demonstrative evidence, see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dD48d-yjxc

https://web.archive.org/web/20240301200541/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dD48d-yjxc

“George Galloway vs the US Senate (FULL TESTIMONY) 49 minutes”

Iraq’s WMD myth: why Clinton is culpable [for the 2003 invasion of Iraq]

George Galloway MP (Britain’s greatest orator) v. Senators Norm Coleman & Carl Levin, displays the U.S. Senate as steeped in lies & corruption and shameless about it while Galloway documents it to their faces

450K views  George Galloway’s scathing attack on the US Senate in his testimony in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday 17th May 2005

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https://web.archive.org/web/20070630065801/http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=6463

https://archive.ph/b0mWZ

Andrew Cockburn, 23 April 2007  (This copy created on 30 June 2007 was last web-copied — or “Saved” — on 12 August 2011 and then taken down, after having been successfully “Saved” only 5 times during those 4.3 years. So, it still has been seen by almost nobody, and forgotten since then. Therefore, very few people know this important history that further confirms what Galloway had said to the U.S. Senate on 17 May 2005:)

“Iraq’s WMD myth: why Clinton is culpable [for the 2003 invasion of Iraq]”

A new UN testimony, revealed to Andrew Cockburn, shows the WMD fiasco goes back to 1997

A former senior UN diplomat has revealed to me details of how, just over 10 years ago, the Clinton administration deliberately sabotaged UN weapons inspections in Iraq.

American officials were fearful that Iraq would be officially certified as weapons-free, a development that was seen as a political liability for Bill Clinton. Thus the stage was set for the manufacture of the Iraqi WMD myth as the excuse for George W. Bush’s catastrophic invasion of Iraq.

It was March 1997. For six years the UN inspectors had been probing the secrets of Saddam’s weapons programmes, in the process destroying huge quantities of chemical munitions and other production facilities. To enforce Saddam’s cooperation, Iraq was subject to crushing sanctions.

Now, Rolf Ekeus, the urbane Swedish diplomat who headed the inspection effort, was ready to announce that his work was almost done. “I was getting close to certifying that Iraq was in compliance with Resolution 687,” he confirmed to me recently.

At the time, he declared that although there were some loose ends to be cleared up, “not much is unknown about Iraq’s retained proscribed weapons capabilities.”

For the Clinton administration, this was a crisis. If Ekeus was allowed to complete his mission, then the suspension of sanctions would follow almost automatically.

Saddam would be off the hook and, more importantly for the Clintonites, the neo-conservative republicans would be howling for the president’s blood.

The only hope was somehow to prevent Ekeus completing his mission.

Enter Madeleine Albright, newly appointed Secretary of State. On March 26, 1997, she strode on to the stage at Georgetown University to deliver what was billed as a major policy address on Iraq. Many in the audience expected that she would extend

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some sort of olive branch toward the Iraqi regime, but that was far from her mind.

Instead, she was set on making sure that Saddam effectively ended his cooperation with the inspectors. …

And then, George W. Bush picked up Clinton’s ball from there, and ran with it.

It’s like a baton relay-race or ‘tag-team’ type of operation, and whereas the public pay attention to the players in it, so that the contests will be called a “democracy” and the billionaire controllers behind the scenes won’t get blamed for its results, the benefits from it go only to the billionaires and their agents (such as Presidents and Congress-members), and everybody else pays the prices for it, in treasury, and in blood — especially in foreign countries, which are targeted, by these billionaires, for take-over.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.