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Palestine are now being turned back on the domestic home front against American

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citizens.

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Mass thugs of the state, unaccountable to no one, unelected, are engaging in

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acts of

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violence against Americans with impunity, and when Americans fight back against

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ICE,

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as they did in Minneapolis, ICE shoots back.

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And the problems continue.

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The analyst Steven Semler wrote recently that Trump's budget manages to be $361

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billion

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larger than last year's, despite cutting $300 billion in social programs and

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other

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public investments.

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All of that money is going to policing, and it's going to endless war.

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It's not going to bridges, it's not going to tunnels, and it's certainly not

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to healthcare.

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Every single one of you, regardless of your political affiliations or your

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ideology, should

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consider that money to be stolen from you.

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Those are dollars stolen from you to be put towards industries of death that

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have no future.

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This bargain isn't tenable anymore.

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It's over.

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It's not tenable for the employee of the California Missile Designer.

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It's not tenable for the veteran who wants free college.

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It's not tenable for the kids in crumbling Philadelphia schools.

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And it's certainly not tenable for the homeless, the working class, and of

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course for the rest

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of the world, those who happen to exist under the boot.

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They have been spoiled by an American way of life that requires so much death.

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The fruits of imperialism were always immoral.

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Now they are obviously rotten.

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I don't know how else to put it.

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The American Empire is fading fast, regardless of what we resolve here today.

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And I'm not just saying that so that I have an upper hand in this conversation.

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No matter what we say here, American Empire is going to inevitably fall.

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But, but, I think, as Mao Zedong himself said earlier, there is a power within

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the American

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people to change the nature of this decline.

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He had a lot more confidence in the American labor class than many Americans do

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today.

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I'll tell you that much.

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I believe that we are living through a strange and radicalizing time for

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millions of Americans.

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And I've seen that with my own two eyes.

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I've gone to protest all around the world.

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Tasted the tear gas of different countries.

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And I've seen Barbara's and Deborah's aged 75 and above, yelling at ICE agents

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in Minneapolis.

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The contradictions have worsened, and they are also restless.

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They also want that change.

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People intuitively understand that there is another way for the United States

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to exist

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in the world, a way in which we're not constantly exploiting people, deciding

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other countries'

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futures for them or, say, blockading their seas because they just completely

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embarrassed

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us politically, like in the case of Cuba, holding on to old grudges for no

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reason as

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we starve economically and literally an island nation that happens to be 90

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miles off of

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our coastline where 10 million people live.

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And that's happening on autopilot.

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It's happening even if you give no consent to that whatsoever.

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But we can change that.

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Once you see the cruelty of American Empire, it's quite difficult to unsee it.

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And I do think American people are seeing it for the first time ever, and they

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know.

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And they know that we are getting a raw deal.

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The super-profits that we have enjoyed are coming to an end.

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And our debt to humanity requires negotiating a new deal, a real equal world

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peace.

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Empires never die quietly, and we must end the American Empire regardless.

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But we must manage the retreat of a superpower from the world stage.

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This is a challenge for our time.

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And actually, this is the challenge for our time.

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Because if we do not do this, then the American Empire will come to an end in a

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much more

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violent way.

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A curse on future generations that we must avoid at all costs.

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And I think that's a challenge for us to be able to be able to be able to be

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able to be.

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And I think that's a challenge for us to be able to be able to be able to be

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able to be.

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So from my calculation, the way I see it, as I tried to explain in this speech

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here,

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is that it's going to happen because it will collapse on its weight no matter

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what.

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It will collapse under its weight regardless.

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And what I want to explain to every American that will listen is that we do

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have the capacity

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to change the system that we exist under in an effort to ensure that we have a

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much more

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equitable outcome where we don't diminish the potential of Americans and we don

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't diminish

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the potential and starve out the potential of people living in the periphery.

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This is something that I saw personally when I visited Cuba recently.

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The economic terror that we've subjected this island nation to is unforgivable.

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And yet the Cuban population has still thrived in very meaningful ways.

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They found novel cures for the lung cancer vaccine that they've had since the '

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90s.

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And I was talking to a scientist on my trip there.

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And apparently Cuba also has the only current working treatment for Alzheimer's

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and dementia.

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It's in stage three clinical trials in Canada right now as we speak.

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I think about what Cuba would look like if they weren't constantly under the

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of American sanctions because these sanctions, these sanctions have stifled

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growth.

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We've played a formative role in developing even further cures, right?

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So that's not just bad for the people of Cuba who are suffering.

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Their economy is in tatters.

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But it's also bad for people like ourselves.

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I mean, Alzheimer's and dementia is a massive problem.

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Almost all of my grandparents suffered from Alzheimer's and dementia.

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So the way I see it, it's almost a selfish argument to make sure that we can

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unlock the

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potential of all of these countries that we seek to dominate.

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And on top of that, I feel like all of the resources, all of our productive

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output is

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wasted on this unlimited endless cycle of violence that we subject other

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nations to.

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And as soon as you connect foreign policy back to all of the domestic problems

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that

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we have, not just in the concept of blowback, which I famously have spoken

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about, but also

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the reality that every dollar that is spent on a bomb that blows up a school is

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the dollar

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that could be spent building schools here.

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Americans are, Americans at least in my experience are much more responsive to

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that kind of message.

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Because at the end of the day, you don't have to use academic language or talk

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about the

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international, proletarian cause.

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You can just tell regular folks, ordinary folks, that random person living in

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Tehran

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has the exact same.