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How America’s Corporate Class Became Legally Unaccountable

July 24, 2026 The Chris Hedges Report. , , , , , , ,
Compared to other wealthy Western nations, the United States stands out for its high incarceration rates and military spending and declining standard of living. In her new book, “Crime and No Punishment: Wealth, Power and Violence, in America”, which just won the Robert F. Kennedy book award, Professor Marie Gottschalk connects the dots between the “twin evils of state violence at home and imperial violence abroad.” She chronicles the rise of President Trump as a manifestation of the failures of the Democrats to stem police violence and address economic insecurity when they had opportunities to do so, and illustrates how the tendrils of US Empire permeate the current crises.

Requiem For America On The Fourth Of July

July 4, 2026 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. , , ,
Neoliberalism, better understood by its less sanitized term cutthroat capitalism, is the poison that destroyed our democracy. It gave the billionaire class and corporations the ideological cover to impoverish the working class, impose crippling austerity, hollow out democratic institutions, buy off our two ruling political parties and deform our courts into appendages of corporations and the rich. Neoliberalism drove tens of millions of disenfranchised, desperate people into the arms of Christian fascists, who preyed on their despair and sold them the fantasy of magic Jesus. 

Most Empires In History Fell By Age 250

July 4, 2026 Rory Fanning, Truthout. , , ,
As a veteran of the U.S. war on Afghanistan, I visit high schools on a regular basis to talk about the military. I try to fill in the blanks that military recruiters intentionally ignore. I find that when asked, most students can say very little about the reasons why the U.S. fights. They often wrongly assume that the U.S. fights in self-defense or to protect democracy when in reality the U.S. empire fights to control other countries’ natural resources, topple governments that refuse to submit to the will of U.S. corporations, or maintain spheres of influence in regions it has no right to be in.

US Empire Crumbling: A New World In Birth

July 4, 2026 Larry Holmes, Workers World. , , , ,
The biggest significance of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. is that the world dominated by the U.S. Empire is ending. This is like a giant dam breaking, a dam that had at once been a catalyst for change but has also stifled it. The impact of this is as enormous as it is unpredictable.  It could be that what the world needs, what revolutionaries have dreamed about and dedicated our lives to, is no longer unthinkable in the foreseeable future. This is the time for revolutionary forces everywhere to ask themselves, “What is our new political orientation for the post-U.S. Empire world that is coming into being?” 

The Rise Of The Global South

May 29, 2026 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. , , ,
The humiliating defeat of Israel and the United States in their war on Iran, along with the savagery of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, are ushering in a new world order. This order is one where voices of reason and stability emanate not from the West — which spent tens of billions of dollars sustaining Israel’s genocide — but from the Global South, including China. It is an order where alliances are being rapidly reconfigured to protect countries from a rogue American state that lashes out like a wounded beast, as it spirals toward terminal decline. The end of the U.S. Empire, led by an impetuous and clueless Donald Trump, is irreversible.

Chris Hedges On America’s War Delusions: ‘Alice In Wonderland Garbage’

May 23, 2026 Joshua Scheer, Scheer Post. , , ,
As the United States sinks deeper into another catastrophic Middle East confrontation, veteran journalist Chris Hedges joins political scientist Stephen Walt and journalist Ryan Grim for a blistering discussion on the unraveling of American power, the dangerous illusions driving Washington’s war machine, and the growing global consequences of the conflict with Iran. Drawing direct parallels to the invasion of Iraq, the conversation tears apart the fantasy that endless militarism creates “stability.” Instead, Hedges argues that the United States has spent decades destabilizing the region through wars, regime-change fantasies, and policies driven less by diplomacy than by what he calls a “non-reality-based belief system” funded by the military-industrial complex.

America’s Suicide Pact

May 9, 2026 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. , , ,
Civilizations, as the historian Arnold J. Toynbee famously argued, “die from suicide, not by murder.” They collapse from within. They fall prey to moral, social and spiritual decay. They are seized by a parasitic ruling class. Democratic institutions seize up. The citizenry is immiserated, wealth is funneled upwards to the ruling class and coercion is the principle form of control. Our suicidal march began long before Donald Trump and his bizarre court of buffoons, sycophants, grifters and Christian fascists took power. It began when the ruling class, especially under the Reagan and Clinton administrations, set out to harvest the country and empire for personal profit.

Gulf Monarchies And The Price Of American Patronage

May 9, 2026 Ziyad Motala, Mondoweiss. , , ,
Empires do not require invitations. They arrive, impose and endure until, as the anti-colonial struggles of the past demonstrated, they are expelled. That was the grammar of colonialism as it left scars across Asia, Africa and the Middle East: a one-way street paved with extraction, humiliation and the slow suffocation of self-determination The tragedy of the current Gulf predicament in the Middle East is not that empire persists, but that it has been invited with ceremony, financed with petrodollars and normalized as strategy. The rulers of the Gulf did not resist the imperial embrace.

American ‘Micro-Militarism’

April 30, 2026 Alfred W. McCoy, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
There is mounting historical evidence that America is indeed an empire in steep decline, while President Donald Trump’s war of choice against Iran is becoming the sort of micro-military disaster that helped destroy successive empires over the past 2,500 years — from ancient Athens to medieval Portugal to modern Spain, Great Britain, and now the United States. And at the core of every such ill-fated war-making decision lay a problematic leader, often born into wealth and prestige, whose personal inadequacies reflected and ramified the many irrationalities that make imperial decline such a painful process.

A Sigh Of Relief, But Breathing Easy Is Impossible In A Circumference Of US Empire

April 10, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. , , , , ,
Yesterday evening, the world collectively breathed a sigh of relief as it was reported that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States reached a deal for a two-week cessation of hostilities to allow for negotiations that will ultimately lead to a longer peace deal between the two nations and the zionist ethnostate of Israel. Yet Iranians and the entire world are not breathing easy as it’s understood that the U.S. and Israel have lost credibility as it pertains to keeping their word and adhering to parameters of a ceasefire agreement. 

America’s Moral Suicide

April 9, 2026 Michael Brenner, Consortium News. , , , ,
Collective suicide always is an ugly business to observe — especially when it’s your own country debasing itself. Yet, we seem unfazed. Indeed, we redouble our acts of inhumanity as if reiteration somehow normalizes the perversity of what we have done. The systematic insulation of ourselves from the magnitude of our turpitude is all the more remarkable for its requiring the constant filtering of graphic images of odious criminality to which we are accomplices. There may be some faint recognition, subliminally, of our culpability in the diligence with which dissenters and truth-tellers are suppressed and punished.

No Kings In America, Real Resistance In Rome

April 6, 2026 Michael Leonardi, Counter Punch. , , , , ,
The “No Kings” slogan sounded promising when it exploded across the United States in 2025: a mass rejection of authoritarianism, unchecked executive power, and the cult of the strongman. But like so many liberal-led mobilizations in the Trump era, the U.S. version has revealed itself as carefully managed theater — heavy on performative outrage, light on principle, and deliberately blind to two of the greatest crimes of our time: Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the illegal U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. The contrast with the Italian “No Kings and Their Wars” mobilization in Rome could not be starker.

US Imperialism And The Hubris Of White ‘Supremacy’ Ideology

April 2, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
Last week, New York Times columnist Carlos Lozada in a piece entitled, Pax Americana, Meet Lax Americana, remarked, “We had a good run - some eight decades or so - but it’s clear now that the United States has ceased to be the leader of the free world.” Who exactly Mr. Lozada meant by “we” is a subject for another time - but I would argue that “we”  certainly does not refer to the masses of poor and working class Black, Brown, Indigenous and white folk who have little to do with the barbaric and draconian imperialist and neo-colonial machinations of the U.S. empire in the same way that developing nations have little to do with the profligate greenhouse gas emissions driving and exacerbating the climate crisis.

Saying No To The Empire Is Not Enough

March 29, 2026 Max Elbaum, Portside. , , , , ,
The joint US-Israeli war against Iran puts an exclamation point on the Gaza genocide. It sends a message to the world from the regimes in Washington and Tel Aviv that if you didn’t get it before, you better get it now: We will do absolutely anything that our military strength allows us to do. There are no rules or international laws we are bound to acknowledge, much less respect. You have two choices: capitulate or be destroyed. Most European governments, all too many regimes elsewhere, and major sections of the Democratic Party leadership here offer at most a few “process objections” to this level of ruthlessness but go with the flow. 

Strait Of Hormuz Closure Brings Empire To Brink

March 26, 2026 Kit Klarenberg, Scheer Post. , , ,
Since the criminal Zionist-American war on Iran erupted, the Strait of Hormuz has remained stubbornly closed. Despite Donald Trump’s dire threats, Tehran has brought maritime traffic to a total standstill. The Empire has futilely scrambled to assemble an international coalition to reopen the economically vital waterway ever since, only to be rebuffed. NATO allies have been slammed for making a “foolish mistake”, by refusing to help militarily secure the Strait. In truth, there is no hope it can be forcibly reopened in the foreseeable future.
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