Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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When a country spends most of it’s tax dollars waging wars and maintaining power abroad, it starts to look more like an empire than a democracy. Journalist Ben Norton discusses how the US empire exists at the expense of the US republic and her people.

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