perhaps Americans are figuring out what the rest of the World has recognized for some time now.

The Myth of American Exceptionalism - Howard Zinn
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/258/

Naomi Wolf Celebrated Author of “The End of America” & “The Beauty Myth”
http://blip.tv/file/439602/
“Fascinating interview with renowned author Naomi Wolf, perhaps best known for her early 1990s feminist classic “€œThe Beauty Myth”€Â?, considered by many to be one of the most important works of the 20th century.

Wolf discusses her new book “€œThe End of America”€Â?, already on the New York Times bestseller list. The book identifies ten classic steps common to all dictatorships – including those of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. Alarmingly, Wolf makes the case that each of these ten steps is occurring in post 9/11 America today. The book is a call to action for young and concerned Americans and this interview intimately frames this important discussion. ”

Naomi Klein outlines ‘The Shock Doctrine’ with MSNBC’s Olbermann
http://blip.tv/file/439602/
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Namoi_Klein_joins_Keith_Olbermann_to_1130.html
Naomi Klein, discussing her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” with MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, outlines how crises, real or perceived, have been used by governments, especially the United States under George W. Bush, to strongarm a disoriented citizenry into accepting changes to its rights, and its government, that it wouldn’t otherwise accept.

People “don’t actually want to hand their democracies over to multinational corporations,” says Klein. “So, you need some kind of a shock. And that shock could be a war. It could be an economic meltdown. It could be a terrorist attack, but something that creates a period of confusion, of dislocation, of regression.”

“And then,” continues Klein, “politicians come forward, playing a father figure.”
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“There is a word for what happens when you invade a country, especially on a false pretense, and then you grab its assets,” says Klein. “It’s called looting, right? And it’s illegal. And Iraqis responded as if their country was being looted. Not as if it was being restructured, or developed, or reconstructed, or any of the cleansed words that were used to describe it.”

“It was a corporate takeover with guns,” responds Olbermann.

“Yes, armed robbery, yes.”
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