American Empire is Bankrupt by Chris Hedges

http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/20090614_the_american_empire_is_bankrupt/


"The architects of this new global exchange realize that if they break the dollar they also break America’s military domination. Our military spending cannot be sustained without this cycle of heavy borrowing. The official U.S. defense budget for fiscal year 2008 is $623 billion, before we add on things like nuclear research. The next closest national military budget is China’s, at $65 billion, according to the Central Intelligence Agency."