{"id":381759,"date":"2018-10-20T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-is-an-undemocratic-empire-that-is-collapsing\/"},"modified":"2018-10-20T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T13:45:07","slug":"presstv-us-is-an-undemocratic-empire-that-is-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-is-an-undemocratic-empire-that-is-collapsing\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018US is an undemocratic empire that is collapsing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States is an undemocratic empire that is controlled by large American corporations and is \u201ccollapsing\u201d economically, politically and socially, an analyst and academic in California says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re living with a problem that didn\u2019t start in 2016 when Donald Trump was elected to President of the United States; it\u2019s a culmination of minimally 500 years of Western European violent colonialism,\u201d Professor Mark Mason said in an interview with Press TV on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The US poses a global threat although \u201cit\u2019s economically collapsing, it\u2019s socially collapsing, it\u2019s politically collapsing,\u201d Mason said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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\u2026it&#8217;s controlled by corporate capitalism,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday slammed Washington&#8217;s reliance on sanctions against Moscow and other&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/20\/577544\/US-Russia-nuclear-weapons\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is an undemocratic empire that is controlled by large American corporations and is \u201ccollapsing\u201d economically, politically and socially, an analyst and academic in California says. \u201cWe\u2019re living with a problem that didn\u2019t start in 2016 when Donald Trump was elected to President of the United States; it\u2019s a culmination of minimally 500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}