Failed State

Evidence That The Empire Is Crumbling

September 14, 2025 Ahjamu Umi, Hood Communist. Strategize! Capitalism, Failed State, Racism, US Empire

I live in the U.S., but evidence of the increasing failures of the capitalist system applies to the entire world, particularly the capitalist countries. And, the U.S. is a very reliable measuring stick for this analysis since it has been the leading capitalist and imperialist country in the world since 1945. Before that time, Europe, particularly Britain, France, and Germany, parallelled the U.S. in world political and economic power, but World War II knocked all of Europe down several notches. After that dust settled, the U.S. stood as the dominant capitalist and imperialist country meaning it became the chief raider of world resources and terrorist oppression to ensure that dominance continues.

USA Can Only Regain Strength If It Understands Why It Lost It

September 8, 2025 Bharat Dogra, Countercurrents. Strategize! Failed State, Peace, United States, US Hegemony

The USA is a country well- endowed with natural resources and strategically suited geographical location. In the 20th century history too was on its side as a number of factors added to its strengths and, overcoming the setback of the great depression, after the end of the Second World War the USA emerged as the most powerful country in the world with its great military power supported by wider military alliances and above all its currency having worldwide acceptance. Subsequently the USA added very substantially to its military strengths and even after unilaterally moving away from the gold standard the international acceptance of its currency was retained. Its glory appeared to be complete with the disintegration of the Soviet Union around 1990.

Why We Remember Katrina

August 30, 2025 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Extreme weather, Failed State, Hurricane Katrina, Racism

Hurricane Katrina first struck the United States on August 25, 2025 making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, the least powerful storm in that designation. But after being downgraded to the category of tropical storm, it gained strength as it traveled into the Gulf of Mexico and again reached hurricane status, making landfall again in Mississippi and Louisiana on August 29, 2025. Residents of Mobile, Alabama, Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi, and New Orleans and other Louisiana cities were all devastated by the storm surge. Twenty years later when we think of Katrina it is the images from New Orleans, where large portions of the city are below sea level, which come to mind.

Cuba, Revolutionary Ethics And Moral Bankruptcy Of Western Capitalism

August 4, 2025 Isaac Saney, Resumen English. Educate! Capitalism, Cuba, Failed State, Haiti, Revolution

The Cuban revolution endures despite more than 60 years of U.S. attacks. One system exploits the people, while the other prioritizes their needs. Which nation deserves the label of “failed’? In an age where propaganda masquerades as truth and empire cloaks itself in the garb of “democracy,” few lies are as pervasive—or politically useful—as the assertion that Cuba is a failed state. This accusation, deployed with relentless regularity by U.S. officials, corporate media, and neoliberal ideologues, is meant to delegitimize a revolutionary and socialist project that has refused to bow before empire.

Acquainting Ourselves With Collapse

July 14, 2025 Sara El-Sayeh, Resilience. Strategize! climate crisis, Community, Egypt, Failed State

I graduated from Cairo University in 2008 — the year the global economy collapsed. Ironically, at the time, Egypt was boasting exceptionally high GDP growth rates led by a very progressive and technocratic government. It wasn’t long before that too collapsed and people took to the streets to protest income inequality and police brutality, among other things. There was a lot of momentum and, at one point, the police left the streets and civilians took shifts in the guerrilla checkpoints they created.

Systems Are Breaking And That’s Our Opportunity

July 12, 2025 Jem Bendell, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Strategize! Failed State, Mutual Aid, Solidarity Economy, Sustainability, The Commons

A few months ago, I reconnected with a friend whom I had worked with on an initiative on ‘the sharing economy’. At the time, we were both ‘Young Global Leaders’ (YGLs) with the World Economic Forum. It was 2013, and we had volunteered our time to bring attention to how new technologies could be used to help everyone have a good life with less ecological impact. Personally, we were imagining a future of peer-to-peer resource sharing, community-based production, and cooperative ownership. Meeting up after years, we laughed that our work had oddly contributed to the World Economic Forum publishing the line that became infamous as a globalist’s dystopian injunction: “You will own nothing and be happy.”

What July 5th Taught Me That July 4th Never Did

July 2, 2025 Michelle Ellner, Counter Punch. Educate! Bolivarian Revolution, Failed State, Fourth of July, Independence Day, Venezuela

Growing up in Venezuela and now living in the United States, I’ve always felt caught between two independence days: July 4th and July 5th. Two celebrations. Two flags. Two very different ideas of what it means to be free. In the U.S., the Fourth of July comes with fireworks, parades, and an almost unquestioned belief in the righteousness of the revolution it commemorates. But in Venezuela, July 5th conjures up different thoughts. It is not just a break from colonial rule but the beginning of a long, unfinished struggle to define freedom on our own terms. It’s not something we inherited. It’s something we’re still fighting for.

America For Sale! Everything Must Go!

July 2, 2025 Hamilton Nolan, In These Times. Educate! Big Beautiful Bill, Class Struggle, Congress, Donald Trump, Failed State, Finance and the Economy, Privatization, Republican Party

The U.S. government has fallen into the hands of people who lack proper metaphors; all they know is business. The nation should be “run like a business” according to these unimaginative suits among the GOP, who haven’t read or studied enough to consider how the government might be run like anything else. The problem with this thinking is it will, by inevitably following the profit motive, lead to a terminal phase. With the House passage of President Donald Trump’s budget legislation “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the United States has reached the private equity looting stage of the metaphor. The logic of this scheme will collapse, but it might bring us all down with it.

The Rule Of Idiots

June 7, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Donald Trump, Failed State, History, US Empire

The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers who absented themselves from reality, plundered their nations and retreated into echo chambers where fact and fiction were indistinguishable. Donald Trump, and the sycophantic buffoons in his administration, are updated versions of the reigns of the Roman emperor Nero, who allocated vast state expenditures to attain magical powers; the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang, who funded repeated expeditions to a mythical island of immortals to bring back a potion that would give him eternal life.

Mass Migration And The Echoes Of Late Rome

April 10, 2025 John Wight, Consortium News. Educate! Failed State, History, Mass Migration, US Empire, Western Hegemony

The ancient world can teach us much, if we only let it. One of its key lessons is that mass migration is capable of destroying even the mightiest of empires. At the height of its power, the Roman Empire was so vast and so omnipotent that it was run on the basis of the dictum: “Roma locuta est. Causa finita est!” (Rome has spoken. The cause has finished). The names of its most powerful figures have been so heralded through the ages, they remain almost as familiar to us today as if they’d only passed from the stage yesterday. Pompey, Caesar, Augustus, Nero, Hadrian, Vespasian, Constantine; these were men whose rule over the ancient world was so dominant that the only real threat they faced came from within Rome itself.

The Decline Of The US Empire: Where Is It Taking Us All?

September 9, 2024 Richard D. Wolff, Counter Punch. Educate! Failed State, Finance and the Economy, US Empire, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping mechanisms. Military actions, infrastructure problems, and social welfare demands may then combine or clash, accumulating costs and backlash effects that the declining empire cannot manage. Policies aimed to strengthen empire—and that once did—now undermine it. Contemporary social changes inside and outside the empire can reinforce, slow, or reverse the decline. However, when decline leads leaders to deny its existence, it can become self-accelerating.

The Country Of The Rust Belt And The Broken Road

July 26, 2024 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Austerity, Economic collapse, Failed State, United States

In his inaugural presidential address on 20 January 2017, Donald Trump used a powerful phrase to describe the situation in the United States: ‘American carnage’. In 1941, seventy-six years before this speech, Henry Luce wrote an article in Life magazine about the ‘American century’ and the promise of US leadership to be ‘the dynamic centre of ever-widening spheres of enterprise’. During the period between these two proclamations, the United States went through an immense expansion known as the ‘Golden Age’ and then a remarkable decline. That theme of decline has returned in Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.

Contrasting US’ Urban Decay With China’s Extraordinary Infrastructure

June 5, 2024 Roger McKenzie, Friends of Socialist China. Strategize! China, Failed State, Infrastructure, Socialism, United States

Empires always end. All of them. The only question is about the nature of that end. We can see this before our eyes as the United States empire reaches its inevitable end, internationally and domestically. We can see it happening in front of our eyes if we choose to look. One of the advantages of travelling by train instead of flying is you get to see much more of the reality of a country. The Acela Express train ride of 230 miles or so for three hours from New York City to the US capital, Washington DC, was depressing in so many ways. The train itself was better and more comfortable than many I have travelled on in Britain, but the journey revealed a picture of severe urban decay in supposedly the world’s most important and richest nation.

The State Of The Union Is ‘Failed’

March 16, 2024 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Failed State, Joe Biden, Russia, State Of The Union

If there were any question that this nation is a failed state, the recent State of the Union (SOTU) address makes the case and removes any doubt about the depth of decline. The constitutional requirement that the president, “... from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union…” is now an extravagant combination of nonsense, mendacity, and war propaganda that reveals the depth of rot in the U.S. body politic. The SOTU address is an opportunity for serious issues to be addressed but which are instead discussed as sophomoric saber rattling as members of congress jump up and down clapping like trained seals as the president pledges to stop Putin, stand up to Putin and not back down to Putin who we are told is on the march and sowing chaos throughout all of Europe.

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