The United States is an undemocratic empire that is controlled by large American corporations and is “collapsing” economically, politically and socially, an analyst and academic in California says.
“We’re living with a problem that didn’t start in 2016 when Donald Trump was elected to President of the United States; it’s a culmination of minimally 500 years of Western European violent colonialism,” Professor Mark Mason said in an interview with Press TV on Friday.
The US poses a global threat although “it’s economically collapsing, it’s socially collapsing, it’s politically collapsing,” Mason said.
“The government of the United States is not a democracy; the policies of the United States are not controlled by the people; people have no say…it’s controlled by corporate capitalism,” he added.
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