Time to Close Our Foreign Military Bases

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers / Popular Resistance Jan 17, 2018 The United States cannot be a moral or ethical country until it accepts the realities of U.S. empire and the destruction it causes around the world. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges, Alfred McCoy on U.S. Empire’s ‘Irrevocable’ Decline (Video)

Staff and Chris Hedges / Truthdig Nov 29, 2017 "If it comes to a military crunch," historian McCoy tells Truthdig columnist Hedges, "we could lose." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The End of Empire

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Oct 1, 2017 The death spiral appears unstoppable, meaning the U.S. as we know it will no longer exist within a decade or, at most, two. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Are We on Track for World War III With China?

By Alfred W. McCoy / TomDispatch Sep 27, 2017 Military tensions between the two countries have been rising in the western Pacific since the summer of 2010. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother

Alfred McCoy Aug 26, 2017 Some of the darkest secrets of the U.S. national security establishment are exposed in the upcoming book "In the Shadows of the American Century." Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )

How a Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower

By Alfred W. McCoy / TomDispatch Feb 22, 2016 In the American failure in Afghanistan lies the greatest policy paradox of the century: Washington’s massive military juggernaut has been stopped dead in its steel tracks by a pink flower, the opium poppy. Dig deeper ( 20 Min. Read )

The Geopolitics of American Global Decline

By Alfred W. McCoy, TomDispatch Jun 8, 2015 America’s political, national security and foreign policy elites have missed the significance of the rapid global changes in Eurasia that are undermining the grand strategy for world dominion that Washington has pursued these past seven decades. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )

The Real American Exceptionalism

By Alfred W. McCoy, TomDispatch Feb 26, 2015 While Presidents Eisenhower and Bush decided on exceptions that violated national boundaries and international treaties, President Obama is exercising his exceptional prerogatives in the unbounded domains of aerospace and cyberspace. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Surveillance Blowback

By Alfred W. McCoy, TomDispatch Jul 16, 2013 For well over a century, what might be called “surveillance blowback” from America’s wars has ensured the creation of an ever more massive and omnipresent internal security and surveillance apparatus. Its future (though not ours) looks bright indeed. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Beyond Bayonets and Battleships

By Alfred W. McCoy, TomDispatch Nov 9, 2012 During its years in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has begun to fuse biometrics, cyber-warfare, and a potential future aerospace shield into a robotic information regime that could produce a platform of unprecedented power for the exercise of global dominion -- or for future military disaster. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )