[To my friends who live on Putin's pay roll. I'm gladly helping you correct the ill conceived notion of yours that America is not the greatest nation in the world.

This currently lies on the Frontpage.

www.nairaland.com/3097430/nigerian-appreciates-woman-visa-america#45499143

This is the No1evidence in many others to why the United States is the world's Greatest Nation.

1.)America opens her doors and ever big heart to 2million immigrants yearly and a few hundreds of thousands among them are illegal immigrants but America says to them,”Come with your big dreams,come as you,come as you,our doors are open,our arms are spread wide,our hearts are welcoming to you”.

Am sure you've seen how Americans have rallied against Donald J Trump,the Republican nominee who(god forbid ever elected as never will be-President) wants to create a mass deportation force and ban people of a certain religion from entering the United States,but Americans say"That is not us","We don't turn our backs to help others ever”.

Am sure anyone will agree that America has made the lives of millions of people better than the lives they previously held in the countries that troop from.You don't believe this?

-Ask that Uncle of yours who got into the States on American Visa Lottery.He probably now lives in Michigan sending you those cool greens monthly.

-Ask your brother who married an American woman who has now brought in you and your siblings and helped you secure jobs to prepare a great future for you.

-Ask your elderly parents who currently enjoy senior citizens health care in the US.

-Even you,what about that scholarship you got,you and hundreds other who have been given partial/full scholarships to course of your choice in world class universities.

2.)The United States is a solace for many who have fled persecution,poverty,disaster,and war.

You don't believe.

-I'll remind you of the Chibok girls that were kidnapped.Few of them were brave enough to escape.Some of them are currently in the United States going through rehabilitation in schools fully paid for and enjoying a life that was denied them not just by Boko Haram but by bad governance,corruption and maladministration in Nigeria.

-Many around the world seek political asylum to the United States yearly.I'll pick a particular group of persons who would be denied their livelihood and even denied their right to breathe and live.

-Ex-Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed the draconian Anti-gay Law some years back whipping up an already heightened anti-gay sentiments in the country.We've seen images of suspected gay men mobbed to death in very cruel,barbaric and inhuman ways.The few who have escaped this torment and found grace in the United States live as free men and women just as God created them.They live as equal citizens who don't have to watch their backs on who's gonna stab them or who's gonna lynch them in public.Not just in Nigeria,thousands of LGBT individuals in Russia and the Middle-East and across Africa have found their ways to safety and freedom.

-Since 1994 to present,the United States has approved 6,000 Asylum request out of 17000 that has been filed from Russia.Expand this to the rest of the world,we have almost a hundred thousand request granted worldwide on various reasons.

-From war torn countries in africa and Middle-East,the United States opens her doors to them yearly.

-America has helped spread freedom and democracy worldwide.Today Japan and South Korea are perfect examples of what American inspired freedom looks like.

-Above all,the United States is the land of the free and brave.

3.)Always ready to help the world.

-While America didn't win WW1/2 alone,America is arguably the major contributing factor to ending these war.

-As at 2014,United States global Foreign Aid stood at $47billion annually.Imagine if these money was kept within the US for Americans alone,someone in Africa might die if he doesn't get his USAID freely given HIV/AIDs medication.Many children in africa are treated for all types of infections and diseases because of these aid.The United States has undertaken lots of programs to change the lives of those who lack availability of basic amenities like good water and free education.

-Some countries are protected by the United States free of any charges.South Korea,Japan and Israel are glaring testimonies to American.

-In the United Nations,America remains the largest donor to the organization.

-Let's not forget even when America sits and does nothing,the whole world looks to one country for a solution,the United States.

4.)America is the land of imagination,diversity and creativity.

-Yes Hollywood,that one place that can turn a comic book into real action where you see visual pictures of the power of imagination turned into creativity.A place where great writers have seen their stories shown to the world,a place where we have faith every month that something fantastic is going to capture our minds and take our imaginations into alternate realms we've never imagined.Hollywood,a place where you can just imagine and live in the happiness of that imagination.

-America movies rule the tv screens of billions around the globe,American music also commands audience from billions around the world and it has given many inspiration to be better with their lives from what they see,some have seen movies of doctors saving lives and vowed to save lives,today they are somewhere fulfilling that vow.

-A nation of diversity yet a nation of unity.From the Indian taxi driver,to the Nigerian surgeon you find at the hospital or the Mexican chef across the street.America has proven to the world that she stands as the land of equal opportunities to all who dare to dream and work hard towards that dream no matter who you are.

5.)Technology.

-America commands this space,first off you should say a big thank you to America for giving you the Internet,while we might thank Alan Turing a British man for giving us the computer,let's not forget America built and designed the computers you ever got to make use of.

-Today you have fun and chat on various social media platforms,all thanks to America.

-Many breakthroughs in medical science,all thanks to America.

-Today you know more about what's beyond the fluffy clouds because America has broken every barrier of impossibility and shown you what is out there.Man landed on the moon,thanks to America,in five years from now,man will land on Mars.

The most important thing from all these is America developed herself as a land where everyone is free and equal,not one where women are disregarded like my friend Zohahariel believes that women should not have same rights as men.

America has also shown to world how people of different colors,background,ethnicity,orientation can live together in peace and harmony.

America makes you believe in the potentials of yourself,Steve Jobs did it with Apple-the world's most successful company,Bill Gates,Zukerberg and many others have shown to the world,if you dream,believe it,and work hard,you can have your name written in sands of gold for eternity.

Missy89:
Even Russia (smaller GDP than the state of Texas) with all the chest beating still receives aid money from the US to protect her nuclear weapons since 1992. The Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Program gave the Russians $60 million last year.

Clowns will come here and talk about Russia's nuke (The nukes American tax payers are subsidizing indirectly)


Will leave a link from sputnik to help Putinbots see the light

http://sputniknews.com/us/20150508/1021898724.html

Missy89:
Here is why America is great and do not need the validation and opinion of Nigerians.

over 300 million dollars of US tax payers money spent in 2015, Around 500k dollars spent this year already and 607 million dollars to be spent on Nigeria this year.

Broke people dont have opinions ( In wizkids voice)

Viktor1983:
God Bless America!
God Bless Nigeria!

Missy89:
Even Russia ( GDP little smaller than Texas) with all the chest beating still receives aid money from the US to protect her nuclear weapons since 1992. The Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Program gave the Russians $60 million last year.

Clowns will come here and talk about Russia's nuke (The nukes American tax payers are subsidizing indirectly)


Will leave a link from sputnik to help Putinbots see the light

http://sputniknews.com/us/20150508/1021898724.html

Lucasbalo:
Missy, you are absolutely right. How many of the Putin trolls can survive living in Russia and criticize him without ending up in a gulag in Siberia ?.

Missy89:


Pootine shills will never put their money where their mouth is. They will hide in Europe/US or even Nigeria and talk about how America is the source of their misery.

Missy89:
Even Russia ( GDP little smaller than Texas) with all the chest beating still receives aid money from the US to protect her nuclear weapons since 1992. The Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Program gave the Russians $60 million last year.

Clowns will come here and talk about Russia's nuke (The nukes American tax payers are subsidizing indirectly)


Will leave a link from sputnik to help Putinbots see the light

http://sputniknews.com/us/20150508/1021898724.html

hungryboy:
America giving Russia $60m, is like me dashing Dangote 10million naira,

Russia's defense budget was estimated to be around $60b plus last year,

Does that look like a country that's really in need of handouts from Uncle Sam?

Missy89:


Sorry but your question lacks basic logic.

You can educate yourself before you talk about what you dont know. I cant help you with that

hungryboy:
Aunty,
it's you that really needs to go back and read your post i replied to again.

Missy89:


How does spending 60 billion a year prevents a country from taking more aid? If Russia doesn't need it the aid, why take it every year?

hungryboy:
this is a case of 'i no need am, but if you dash me i go collect',

Any sane country won't reject free money.

Zoharariel:
10 Reasons Y Amerika Is The Most Useless Nation In The Universe.

1.) Support of Dictators: For all the happy talk of spreading Democracy and protecting human rights, the empire has repeatedly not only supported dictators, but in many cases overthrew popularly elected leaders and replaced them with puppet tyrants.  Examples range from secretly funding the Nazis, to installing the Shah in Iran, Pinochet in Chile, supporting Musharraf in Pakistan, and their everlasting love affair with the brutal Saudi royal family, to name a few.  Actions speak louder than words to those who can navigate the storm of propaganda with a moral compass set to recognize good from evil.  Dictators and freedom cannot coexist.

2. Preemptive Wars of Aggression:  It could be said that all wars are preemptive in nature because so many entities benefit from war.  Yet, even before Amerika’s latest crusades, they covertly and surgically attacked countries that never threatened them.  This allowed them to maintain the moral high road in the public’s eye while constructing the foundation of their empire.  That was until the Bush Doctrine; the use of preemptive military action to confront possible threats was unofficially adopted to be the new foreign policy for combating terror.  Since then, America has become the violent aggressors, having officially invaded two countries — Afghanistan and Iraq — without legitimate provocation.  Violent aggressors have always been judged by history as evil. But it gets worse….

3. Torture: Torture has never been acceptable by those promoting a high moral standing in the global community.  Nazis and Japanese soldiers were convicted and executed for engaging in the exact same torture techniques that Amerika has redefined as ‘enhanced interrogation’.  “I was just following orders,” was not a justifiable excuse for such inhumane behavior, much like it wasn’t a good enough defense for the low-ranking patsies who took the heat for the sinister Abu Ghraib torture scandal even though their actions were approved at the highest levels.  Can state-sanctioned torture of prisoners held without charges ever be viewed as anything less than brutal?

4. Suppression of Dissent:  All tyrannical regimes throughout history have suppressed homeland dissent.  As government oppression grows bolder at home and abroad, more citizens will naturally express outrage, resulting in even more oppressive controls.  This is happening in the United States through the all-seeing eye of the Department of Homeland Security with warrantless spying, arbitrary watch lists, citizen spy campaigns, and TSA molestation to travel anywhere.  Additionally, in an attempt to squash free speech, they arbitrarily seize websites and violently confront peaceful protesters.  Unfortunately, as awareness of the topics in this very article expands, the U.S. will likely become even bolder in their pursuit of stifling dissent.  In other words, the worst is yet to come, and history will judge the U.S. as not quite the beacon of freedom they have pretended to be.

5. Elimination of Habeas Corpus:  Say goodbye to the notion of being innocent until proven guilty, the right to face charges and your accuser, and the right to a free and fair trial.  Habeas corpus, considered the only humane path to “which a prisoner can be released from unlawful detention,” has been eliminated for those vaguely labeled ‘enemy combatants’ of the empire.  As Guantanamo prisoners rot under such pretenses, prominent lawmakers in the empire propose the exact same lack of rights for American citizens if they’re labeled an ‘enemy belligerent‘.  Similar to the Spanish Inquisition, now you’re guilty until you’re tortured to admit your guilt.

6. Assassinating Citizens:  That’s right.  No judge, no jury, no conviction; just straight to execution. Amerika has set another precedent in their tyrannical march toward empire when they openly assassinated an Amerikan citizen and government patsy, Anwar al-Awlaki, and his teenage son on the suspicion of terrorism.  Paul Craig Roberts laments “Now the US government not only can seize a US citizen and confine him in prison for the rest of his life without ever presenting evidence and obtaining a conviction, but also can have him shot down in the street or blown up by a drone.”  Isn’t this the reason America claims to be knocking off dictators around the world — the deliberate killing of their own citizens?

But Awlaki was a bad apple because the intelligence community said so. What’s most telling that America will continue this wickedness is that almost every US lawmaker turned a blind eye to the grotesque violation of Constitutional rights. Only Ron Paul said that assassinating an American citizen without charges is nothing less than an “impeachable offense”.  Too bad most of the country cheered the Awlaki killing as a “victory” in the war on terror, indicating that it is now an acceptable tactic.  Americans beware: you may be moved from a secret watch list to a secret kill list in this brutal empire.

7.) Unauthorized Drone Wars: Unprovoked wars without authorization, accountability, or independent oversight only seem to be escalating; and with little resistance. The US Congress no longer votes to “declare war”.  They simply give the Commander in Chief broad “authorization” to use force against specific nations. However, even that is not broad enough in the rapid pursuit of empire.  Now, joystick warriors directed by the CIA and Pentagon have targeted at least three countries with “unauthorized” military strikes; Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia.  Even worse, they waged a full-scale war for regime change and resource plundering in Libya without any authority inside the United States.  Under the NATO flag, which is 75% funded by the U.S., they flew over 9200 strike sorties in Libya to illegally topple Gaddafi.  Drunk with success, the bloodthirsty empire marches on to their next preemptive targets, Syria and Iran.  Quick morality check: unprovoked killing and stealing as a first resort is still wrong, right?

8.) Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction: How ironic that the world’s policeman for weapons of mass destruction is the only one to use them on a mass scale.  The United States is on record using chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons.  From the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII, to Monsanto’s Agent Orange in Vietnam, to the depleted uranium used in Afghanistan and Iraq, America only condemns itself when speaking about the evils of WMDs. However, killers don’t appear to care how the killing is accomplished, so long as it achieves their goals.  The real firecrackers will likely be brought out in a confrontation with Iran, or if China and Russia are lured into the conflict.  It won’t really matter much what history says if the use of WMD escalates by either side, but the aggressors should rightly be blamed for the ensuing scorched earth, while the defenders against killers and thieves should be viewed as righteous.

9. World’s Largest Drug Dealer:  The Amerikan empire is the largest drug dealer in the world?  Say it isn’t so. Well, in addition to forcing legal drugs and genetically modified organisms on nations, usually under the cover of foreign aid, Amerika also leads in the illegal drug trade.  In fact, many researchers reveal that the war on drugs is only utilized to control and monopolize the illicit drug trade.  The US government has been caught multiple times shipping in cocaine, colluding with certain cartels to control the industry, and now openly protects and transports opium from Afghanistan.  In fact, Global Research points out that in 2001, “according to UN figures, opium production had fallen to 185 tons. Immediately following the October 2001 US led invasion, production increased dramatically, regaining its historical levels.”  This month, the U.N. announced that Afghanistan now provides 93% of the world’s opium production; up 61% compared to 2010 to a whopping 5800 tonnes.  Although the empire tries to keep it secret, they can’t hide the hypocrisy forever.

10.) World Reserve Currency Prison: Although using Weapons of Mass Debt is a non-violent form of expanding the empire, it’s perhaps the most brutal and effective form of control.  Requiring foreign nations to purchase oil and other imported commodities with US dollars wields immense power.  Because all nations must acquire dollars to purchase critical resources, they quickly become indebted to the US Federal Reserve, their affiliate central banks, and the IMF.  Before long, the entire world is colonized by debt.  It seems that only the nations that don’t need or refuse credit from Western banking institutions are the ones in danger of facing the wrath of the imperial war machine. Incidentally, most oil-rich nations in the Middle East have outlawed usury (lending money with interest), making them impossible to conquer diplomatically through debt.  Controlling the world reserve currency means controlling the tap of life itself, which is a dangerous weapon in the hands of an aggressive empire.  Debt is the ultimate WMD the empire uses to enslave the world, which leaves dissidents with two clear choices: slavery or death.

Although this empire is infinitely more powerful than Rome was, it will likely suffer the same fate.  For every negative action the empire commits, there’s an equal and opposite good reaction. And the goodness of humanity will always defeat tyranny when it goes too far.  However, an empire with so much to lose will go down swinging and slinging every weapon in its arsenal, thus putting the final stamp on their status as most brutal empire in history.

Bonus:

11.) Racism: Large portions of Amerika were built on the backs of African slaves (or over the bodies of Native Americans). A century after they had been set free, black US citizens still lived in fear of suddenly being beaten, imprisoned, or even lynched. Today, most Americans still harbor explicitly racist sentiments toward blacks and Hispanics.

12.) Crime: America has the highest reported crime rate in the world. The annual murder rate is 4.7 per 100,000 – a figure that is unthinkable in other developed countries.

13.) Civilian Bloodbath: US military operations from the last 10 years alone have caused the deaths of more than a million civilians – dwarfing the bloodshed of Benito Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, and Bashar Assad. The current drone campaign has a 98% civilian casualty rate – frequently killing children and in one case hitting a wedding procession.

14.) Poverty: About 46 million Amerikans are living in poverty. The numbers get worse as you get younger: 1 in 4 infants, toddlers, and preschoolers are facing poverty in the US.

15.) No Privacy: It is now a well-documented fact that the US government is waging a global war on privacy, including warrant-free eavesdropping on electronic communications of citizens. It is almost impossible to describe how vast and thorough these programs are.

Nagode!

ValerianSteel:
Keep spreading lies and falsehood against America but be reminded,your Russia can not measure up to a quarter of what the United States has to offer the entire world.

Zoharariel:
10 Reasons Y Amerika Is The Most Useless Nation In The Universe.

1.) Support of Dictators: For all the happy talk of spreading Democracy and protecting human rights, the empire has repeatedly not only supported dictators, but in many cases overthrew popularly elected leaders and replaced them with puppet tyrants.  Examples range from secretly funding the Nazis, to installing the Shah in Iran, Pinochet in Chile, supporting Musharraf in Pakistan, and their everlasting love affair with the brutal Saudi royal family, to name a few.  Actions speak louder than words to those who can navigate the storm of propaganda with a moral compass set to recognize good from evil.  Dictators and freedom cannot coexist.

2. Preemptive Wars of Aggression:  It could be said that all wars are preemptive in nature because so many entities benefit from war.  Yet, even before Amerika’s latest crusades, they covertly and surgically attacked countries that never threatened them.  This allowed them to maintain the moral high road in the public’s eye while constructing the foundation of their empire.  That was until the Bush Doctrine; the use of preemptive military action to confront possible threats was unofficially adopted to be the new foreign policy for combating terror.  Since then, America has become the violent aggressors, having officially invaded two countries — Afghanistan and Iraq — without legitimate provocation.  Violent aggressors have always been judged by history as evil. But it gets worse….

3. Torture: Torture has never been acceptable by those promoting a high moral standing in the global community.  Nazis and Japanese soldiers were convicted and executed for engaging in the exact same torture techniques that Amerika has redefined as ‘enhanced interrogation’.  “I was just following orders,” was not a justifiable excuse for such inhumane behavior, much like it wasn’t a good enough defense for the low-ranking patsies who took the heat for the sinister Abu Ghraib torture scandal even though their actions were approved at the highest levels.  Can state-sanctioned torture of prisoners held without charges ever be viewed as anything less than brutal?

4. Suppression of Dissent:  All tyrannical regimes throughout history have suppressed homeland dissent.  As government oppression grows bolder at home and abroad, more citizens will naturally express outrage, resulting in even more oppressive controls.  This is happening in the United States through the all-seeing eye of the Department of Homeland Security with warrantless spying, arbitrary watch lists, citizen spy campaigns, and TSA molestation to travel anywhere.  Additionally, in an attempt to squash free speech, they arbitrarily seize websites and violently confront peaceful protesters.  Unfortunately, as awareness of the topics in this very article expands, the U.S. will likely become even bolder in their pursuit of stifling dissent.  In other words, the worst is yet to come, and history will judge the U.S. as not quite the beacon of freedom they have pretended to be.

5. Elimination of Habeas Corpus:  Say goodbye to the notion of being innocent until proven guilty, the right to face charges and your accuser, and the right to a free and fair trial.  Habeas corpus, considered the only humane path to “which a prisoner can be released from unlawful detention,” has been eliminated for those vaguely labeled ‘enemy combatants’ of the empire.  As Guantanamo prisoners rot under such pretenses, prominent lawmakers in the empire propose the exact same lack of rights for American citizens if they’re labeled an ‘enemy belligerent‘.  Similar to the Spanish Inquisition, now you’re guilty until you’re tortured to admit your guilt.

6. Assassinating Citizens:  That’s right.  No judge, no jury, no conviction; just straight to execution. Amerika has set another precedent in their tyrannical march toward empire when they openly assassinated an Amerikan citizen and government patsy, Anwar al-Awlaki, and his teenage son on the suspicion of terrorism.  Paul Craig Roberts laments “Now the US government not only can seize a US citizen and confine him in prison for the rest of his life without ever presenting evidence and obtaining a conviction, but also can have him shot down in the street or blown up by a drone.”  Isn’t this the reason America claims to be knocking off dictators around the world — the deliberate killing of their own citizens?

But Awlaki was a bad apple because the intelligence community said so. What’s most telling that America will continue this wickedness is that almost every US lawmaker turned a blind eye to the grotesque violation of Constitutional rights. Only Ron Paul said that assassinating an American citizen without charges is nothing less than an “impeachable offense”.  Too bad most of the country cheered the Awlaki killing as a “victory” in the war on terror, indicating that it is now an acceptable tactic.  Americans beware: you may be moved from a secret watch list to a secret kill list in this brutal empire.

7.) Unauthorized Drone Wars: Unprovoked wars without authorization, accountability, or independent oversight only seem to be escalating; and with little resistance. The US Congress no longer votes to “declare war”.  They simply give the Commander in Chief broad “authorization” to use force against specific nations. However, even that is not broad enough in the rapid pursuit of empire.  Now, joystick warriors directed by the CIA and Pentagon have targeted at least three countries with “unauthorized” military strikes; Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia.  Even worse, they waged a full-scale war for regime change and resource plundering in Libya without any authority inside the United States.  Under the NATO flag, which is 75% funded by the U.S., they flew over 9200 strike sorties in Libya to illegally topple Gaddafi.  Drunk with success, the bloodthirsty empire marches on to their next preemptive targets, Syria and Iran.  Quick morality check: unprovoked killing and stealing as a first resort is still wrong, right?

8.) Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction: How ironic that the world’s policeman for weapons of mass destruction is the only one to use them on a mass scale.  The United States is on record using chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons.  From the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII, to Monsanto’s Agent Orange in Vietnam, to the depleted uranium used in Afghanistan and Iraq, America only condemns itself when speaking about the evils of WMDs. However, killers don’t appear to care how the killing is accomplished, so long as it achieves their goals.  The real firecrackers will likely be brought out in a confrontation with Iran, or if China and Russia are lured into the conflict.  It won’t really matter much what history says if the use of WMD escalates by either side, but the aggressors should rightly be blamed for the ensuing scorched earth, while the defenders against killers and thieves should be viewed as righteous.

9. World’s Largest Drug Dealer:  The Amerikan empire is the largest drug dealer in the world?  Say it isn’t so. Well, in addition to forcing legal drugs and genetically modified organisms on nations, usually under the cover of foreign aid, Amerika also leads in the illegal drug trade.  In fact, many researchers reveal that the war on drugs is only utilized to control and monopolize the illicit drug trade.  The US government has been caught multiple times shipping in cocaine, colluding with certain cartels to control the industry, and now openly protects and transports opium from Afghanistan.  In fact, Global Research points out that in 2001, “according to UN figures, opium production had fallen to 185 tons. Immediately following the October 2001 US led invasion, production increased dramatically, regaining its historical levels.”  This month, the U.N. announced that Afghanistan now provides 93% of the world’s opium production; up 61% compared to 2010 to a whopping 5800 tonnes.  Although the empire tries to keep it secret, they can’t hide the hypocrisy forever.

10.) World Reserve Currency Prison: Although using Weapons of Mass Debt is a non-violent form of expanding the empire, it’s perhaps the most brutal and effective form of control.  Requiring foreign nations to purchase oil and other imported commodities with US dollars wields immense power.  Because all nations must acquire dollars to purchase critical resources, they quickly become indebted to the US Federal Reserve, their affiliate central banks, and the IMF.  Before long, the entire world is colonized by debt.  It seems that only the nations that don’t need or refuse credit from Western banking institutions are the ones in danger of facing the wrath of the imperial war machine. Incidentally, most oil-rich nations in the Middle East have outlawed usury (lending money with interest), making them impossible to conquer diplomatically through debt.  Controlling the world reserve currency means controlling the tap of life itself, which is a dangerous weapon in the hands of an aggressive empire.  Debt is the ultimate WMD the empire uses to enslave the world, which leaves dissidents with two clear choices: slavery or death.

Although this empire is infinitely more powerful than Rome was, it will likely suffer the same fate.  For every negative action the empire commits, there’s an equal and opposite good reaction. And the goodness of humanity will always defeat tyranny when it goes too far.  However, an empire with so much to lose will go down swinging and slinging every weapon in its arsenal, thus putting the final stamp on their status as most brutal empire in history.

Bonus:

11.) Racism: Large portions of Amerika were built on the backs of African slaves (or over the bodies of Native Americans). A century after they had been set free, black US citizens still lived in fear of suddenly being beaten, imprisoned, or even lynched. Today, most Americans still harbor explicitly racist sentiments toward blacks and Hispanics.

12.) Crime: America has the highest reported crime rate in the world. The annual murder rate is 4.7 per 100,000 – a figure that is unthinkable in other developed countries.

13.) Civilian Bloodbath: US military operations from the last 10 years alone have caused the deaths of more than a million civilians – dwarfing the bloodshed of Benito Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, and Bashar Assad. The current drone campaign has a 98% civilian casualty rate – frequently killing children and in one case hitting a wedding procession.

14.) Poverty: About 46 million Amerikans are living in poverty. The numbers get worse as you get younger: 1 in 4 infants, toddlers, and preschoolers are facing poverty in the US.

15.) No Privacy: It is now a well-documented fact that the US government is waging a global war on privacy, including warrant-free eavesdropping on electronic communications of citizens. It is almost impossible to describe how vast and thorough these programs are.
Nagode!