How the Last Superpower Was Unchained

Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch Jun 18, 2018 More than 16 years after 9/11, having faced only lightly armed enemies, still wealthy beyond compare, still with a matchlessly funded military, the United States has won literally nothing. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

How Much Longer Can the U.S. Remain a Superpower?

Glen Ford / Black Agenda Report Apr 18, 2018 Washington is answering this imperial existential question the only way it can, with its awesome war machine, oiled by lies. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

An American Century of Carnage: Measuring Violence in a Single-Superpower World

By John W. Dower / TomDispatch Mar 29, 2017 Are we in an era of a “new peace”? Think again. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

The Superpower Conundrum: The Rise and Fall of Just About Everything

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Jul 2, 2015 The greatest power in history can’t build a single mile of high-speed rail? And its Congress is mired in an argument about whether funds can even be raised to keep its highways more or less pothole-free? Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Delusionary Washington: The Desperate Plight of a Declining Superpower

By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch May 28, 2015 Russia refuses to curtail support for armed separatists in Ukraine; China refuses to abandon its base-building endeavors in the South China Sea; the Islamic State movement refuses to capitulate in the face of U.S. airpower. What is a declining superpower supposed to do in the face of such defiance? Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Russians Invade Afghanistan (Again!), Chinese Fight Iraq War (Again!)

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Nov 27, 2014 After 13 years of doing its damnedest, the U.S. has overseen the rise of the dominant narco-state on the planet with monopoly control over up to 90 percent of the global opium supply and 75 percent of the heroin. It’s also been complicit in the creation of the first terrorist mini-oil state in history, a post-al-Qaeda triumph of extreme jihadism. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

A World Where No One Listens to the Planet’s Sole Superpower

By Dilip Hiro, TomDispatch Sep 30, 2013 Ever fewer countries, allies, or enemies, are paying attention, much less kowtowing, to the once-formidable power of the world’s last superpower. The list of defiant figures -- from Egyptian generals to Saudi princes, Iraqi Shiite leaders to Israeli politicians -- is lengthening. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Alone and Delusional on Planet Earth

By Tom Engehardt, TomDispatch Sep 6, 2013 In an increasingly phantasmagorical world, here’s my present fantasy of choice. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Crime Watch

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And Then There Was One

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch May 8, 2013 To this day, we’ve never quite taken in the moment when Soviet imperial rot unexpectedly -- above all, to Washington -- became imperial crash-and-burn. Left standing, the United States -- the Cold War's victor -- seemed like an empire of everything under the sun. It was as if humanity had always been traveling toward this spot. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

A History of the World, BRIC by BRIC

By Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch Apr 26, 2012 Here's the multi-trillion dollar question: Does the emergence of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa as economic powers signal that we have truly entered a new multipolar world? Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

The China Superpower Hoax

Steven Hill / Truthdig Sep 23, 2010 How is a country with a lower per capita income than Kazakhstan, one of the worst environmental records of any major nation and a dictatorship, besides, hailed by so many as the next global superpower?How is a country with a lower per capita income than Kazakhstan hailed by so many as the next global superpower? Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )