Was it the NSA that put the back door in Juniper Networks firewalls?

It has been trying to attack antivirus software.

In 2013, the US supported the creation of some sort of Salafist "Islamic state" in Syria and Iraq as a way to weaken Assad.

The American Red Cross spent millions in Haiti to provide shelter and built just six houses with that money.

This seems to relate to its overall corporatization.

The European Patent Office hired a surveillance company to snoop on its critics.

Most of the US has been restructured around automobiles. As people get older, eventually they can't drive any more, so they become stuck at home.