JAMES PETRAS a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York, talks about his book THE POLITICS OF EMPIRE: US, ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST - and gives an overview of US empire building linking overseas expansion with:
1) the growth of a police state and declining living standards;
2) advanced technologically driven global spying on adversaries and allies with declining economic competitiveness and military defeats;