The United States as Babylon

"Because your merchants were the great ones of the world,
all nations were led astray by your magic potion.
In her was found the blood of prophets and holy ones
and all who have been slain on the earth."

-Revelation 18:23-24

See John Perkin's "The Secret History of the American Empire." See interviews with him on youtube (there are more than the two I have listed here):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6WstddMJZQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKPa8m07txg&NR=1