The U.S. Doubles Down as Empire Declines

Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese / Popular Resistance Mar 19, 2018 As predictions of the end of American empire trickle in, the nation, in response, is doing more of what has been causing the decline. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges on the American Empire’s Descent Into Dystopia (Video)

Staff / Truthdig and Chris Hedges Dec 4, 2017 In a powerful speech delivered at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, N.Y., the Truthdig columnist analyzes fascism and empire in the Trump age. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

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

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

Sin and Bones

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100 Years of White Empire Propaganda

Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese / Popular Resistance Nov 1, 2017 The Balfour Declaration, which favored giving Palestine to the Jewish people, it still relevant because of co-existing ideas justifying white supremacy and racism. Among its legacies are some of our wars. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

As the U.S. Empire Fails, Trump Enters a Quagmire in Afghanistan

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Aug 29, 2017 The president did not trust his instincts and missed an opportunity to end the war. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Jeremy Scahill on Donald Trump and the Military-Industrial Complex

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 3, 2017 In an interview with acTVism, the investigative journalist also discusses the significance of the Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Violent Cesspool of Our Own Making

By William J. Astore / TomDispatch Jan 26, 2017 When it comes to building and exporting murderous weaponry, not even Vladimir Putin’s Russia comes close to the United States. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

On the Road With Our American Selves

By Mattea Kramer / TomDispatch Nov 23, 2016 After the fluorescent circus of Election 2016, I imagine what would be truly exceptional: an America that values all human life in the same way. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

The U.S. Military Pivots to Africa, and That Continent Goes Down the Drain

By Nick Turse / TomDispatch Aug 3, 2016 Over the past six years, each incoming commander of the U.S. Africa Command has offered a more dismal and dire assessment of the situation facing the American military there than his predecessor. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

An Illegal Military Strategy Disguised as Technological Advance

By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch Jul 18, 2016 However they are achieved, the United States has now embraced extrajudicial executions on foreign soil. And most of the discussion has focused more on the new instrument—drone technology—than on its purpose: assassination. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

We Have Met the Alien, and He Is Us

By William J. Astore / TomDispatch Jul 14, 2016 Only when we see the evidence of our own invasive nature can we begin to become the kind of land we say we want to be. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )