Tag: empire
Bin Laden and Trump: Two bookends to America’s imperial decline
The U.S. now is a very sick empire, faced abroad by powerful challenges to its hegemony, eroded by economic stagnation, shorn of ideological legitimacy, and torn apart internally by a civil war in all but name.
Sanctions backfire: US is being left behind
At present, the United States is waging an economic World War targeting much of the world economy, including allies who refuse to comply with U.S. mandates.
Trump era: ‘There is great disorder under the sky, so the...
The chaos of the Trump era is an opportunity for positive political change.
The Empire’s Final Frontier: Re-Colonize the Homeland
America, after a 225-year experiment with relative freedom, is morphing back into a grim colony. "The empire" has no king, no permanent kingpin, nor evinces widespread controls over all sorts of majority behavior.
Malcolm X Was Right About America
We are the nation Malcolm X knew us to be and our "refusal to face the truth about empire" has created the nightmare Malcolm predicted. Did he better understand the inner workings of the empire?
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The Hard Hat Riot: A forgotten flashpoint in America’s culture wars
The Hard Hat Riot had immediate political consequences—a seminal moment in America’s culture wars.
The compulsion to intervene
Americans profess to care about the sacrifices of those who serve the nation in uniform. Why don’t we care enough to keep them from harm in the first place?
Like tobacco and Big Oil, secret docs show chemical companies knew PFAS dangers
"The industry used several strategies that have been shown common to tobacco, pharmaceutical, and other industries to influence science and regulation—most notably, suppressing unfavorable research and distorting public discourse."
The debt ceiling debacle is NOT a ‘partisan standoff’
Did Republicans alone manufactured this looming disaster?
Countries introduce legislation to ban or restrict vapes
Vaping has become popular among youth, but comes with an environmental impact.