USA
There are real villains among us.
Airforce One
Image: The Guardian
The US 2018 mid-terms election is done - kind of.
Since the US are no longer a British colony, they can do what they want. As long as they don't mess up the fabric of the global system of shared values, mutual trust, respect, cooperation, and safety.
Don't sell your citizens snake oil like "clean coal," "election theft," and "there is no climate change;" or use racial slurs, calling non-white people and others "the blacks," "the gays," "the Muslims," "the Hispanics," the "Pocahontas" and "unknown Middle Easterners." This kind of speech is derogatory and racist and a sign of ugly nationalism and populism.
The top acting representative of the United States, lied 4,229 times in public since he took office, [1] using blunt lies for political gain and represents it as the holy truth.
What does this tell us about his often uttered claim that "there is no collusion with Russia?" One can almost assume that meanwhile,
the White House is just a shell company of the Kremlin.
America, the world is watching you!
But there is another problem as well because most of the world's inhabitants know
terrific little about the United States of America.
OK, there is Hollywood in California (thanks to the motion picture industry and the annual wildfires). People heard about sunny Florida with its funny buildings, inhabited by senior citizens, and the states inability to count votes.
There is the largest city in the USA, New York, with the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World); and there is Washington where the US President, his 'Vice' president, and their entourage run their show.
But for example, a few people outside the US know there is an entire state named Washington (on the map of the USA, in the upper left corner). The same goes for New York, the state just north of the city with the same name.
So, let's get started:
50 States
Flag of the United States
Image: © nationsonline.org
The United States of America is a federal republic comprising fifty states and the Federal District of Columbia (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States).
The country covers the central part of North America. It originated in the American War of Independence, the successful rebellion of the British colonies (aka The original thirteen colonies against the British Empire) on the east coast of the continent in 1775–83.
In the 19th century, the territory of the original British colonies was extended across the continent through the westward spread of more and more incoming people.
They came in the ten thousands, economic migrants and religious refugees from Europe, soldiers of fortune, fur hunters, and gold diggers. Since centuries the British have shipped thousands of convicts and other persons regarded as undesirable to the New World every year. In the US history books of today all those people were kindly called pioneers and settlers.
This is the legacy of your ancestry.
The expansion of the settlement of what is now the USA was unfortunately at the expense of the original inhabitants, the Native American Indians.
Learn more about the US today, see our road trip through all of the 50 States - from Alabama to Zabriskie Point (which is not a state but begins with Z ;).
