(Ir)religiosity

I like Howard Zinn.  I like him a lot.  And if you haven’t read his A People’s History of the United States you need to — right now.  It’s a great book.

Al Jazeera interviewed Zinn the other day.  Here are a few selected quotes.

“[The US] is an empire which is on the one hand the most powerful empire that ever existed; on the other hand an empire that is crumbling - an empire that has no future … because the rest of the world is alienated and simply because this empire is top-heavy with military commitments, with bases around the world, with the exhaustion of its own resources at home. [This is] leading to more and more discontent and home, so I think the American empire will go the way of other empires and I think it is on its way now.” Read the rest of this entry »