Alfred McCoy: A Dying American Empire, ‘Rotten to the Heart?’
How Trump is Demolishing U.S. Global Power and Its World Order
The American Empire in (Ultimate?) Crisis: The Decline and Fall of It All
By Alfred McCoy / TomDispatch Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin…
[rewind] Indigenous Peoples Day: A Look Back at America’s History of Genocide
UCLA history professor Benjamin Madley’s book An American Genocide: The United States and the California Catastrophe 1846-1873 details the killing of tens of thousands of Native Americans as the state…
Patrick Lawrence: Our Shared Addiction to Empire
"If the Columbus myth has been thoroughly discounted, what is it that causes us to continue closing the banks, stopping the mail, and marching in parades on a Monday around…
“The American Production System”: The Rise and Fragmentation of a Manufacturing Empire
It can be said that since the 1960s, the U.S. government and elites have had a persistent manufacturing anxiety.
Hedges: The Evil We Do Is the Evil We Get
The hijackers who carried out the attacks on 9/11, like all radical jihadist groups in the Middle East, spoke to us in the murderous language we taught them.
Hedges: The Empire Does Not Forgive
The Americans, like the British and the Soviets before them, dug their own graveyard in Afghanistan.
What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire
Perhaps even more relevant today than it was in 2008, when it was first published, is the remarkable Howard Zinn's writing on how, from his childhood in school to his…
The American Century Ends Early
How the USS Enterprise was transformed into the USS Roach: Let’s face it, whether we fully grasp the fact or not, we now live in a system, as well as…
Hedges: Papering Over the Rot
The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions — new window dressing will not end oligarchy.
Joe Biden Is the Embodiment of Our Fading Empire
America's distinctly fading imperial power is reflected in our aged new president.
Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges on the State of the American Empire
On this week’s “On Contact,” host Chris Hedges talks to Professor Noam Chomsky, the pioneering linguist, prolific author of numerous seminal political works, about the state of the American Empire.…
Everywhere You Look, American Empire Is Crumbling
If you need proof that the last superpower, our very own empire, is indeed crumbling, consider the year we’ve just lived through, not to mention the first few weeks of…
Donald Trump and the Fall of the American Empire
In more ways than many of us realized, Trump was the messenger from hell when it came to a falling empire on a failing planet.
Chris Hedges: America’s Death March
Regardless of the outcome, the election will not stop the rise of hypernationalism, crisis cults and other signs of an empire's terminal decline.