The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of World War I, is a cautionary tale for a decayed U.S. Empire a century later.
Chris Hedges: Decline and Fall
Tag: World War I
Trump’s Attempt to Abridge Free Speech
Andrew P. Napolitano responds to a memo by Donald Trump calling antifa — which is an ideology — a domestic terrorism “organization” and directing federal law enforcement to disrupt its gatherings.
Elias Rodriguez’s Murderous Gift to Israel
The barbarism of the live-streamed genocide in Gaza has inflicted moral injury on a scale untold, says John Wight. This is how Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation and this abhorrent double murder should be understood.
Chris Hedges Report: Roots of Mideast Conflict
“It took the weight of the British Empire to turn the Zionist dream … into an agenda.” Historian and author Eugene Rogan on the consequences of the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
The Fatal Post World War II Contradiction
Lawrence Davidson delves into the history behind the founding of Israel as a European settler state and how it came to see international law as a danger to defy and overcome.
US Faces Strategic Defeat in Geopolitical War in Gaza
Israel will have to vacate its occupied territories and make space for a state of Palestine, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar. This crushing defeat for the U.S. will mark the end of its global dominance.
US Can’t Deal with Defeat
In the U.S., the strongest collective memory of America’s wars of choice is the desirability – and ease – of forgetting them. So it will be when we look at a ruined Ukraine in the rear-view mirror, writes Michael Brenner.
US in Throes of Unexceptional Imperial Decline
Empires built on dominance achieved through a powerful, expansionist military necessarily become ever more authoritarian, corrupt and dysfunctional, writes William J. Astore. Ultimately, they are fated to fail.
Rail Workers Urge Nationalization Amid Ohio Disaster
As the toxic aftermath of the major Norfolk Southern derailment plays out, Railroad Workers United calls for public ownership of a system beset with “profiteering, pillaging and irresponsibility.”
The Depression-Era Veterans Who Marched on DC
On Veteran’s Day, Shannon Bow O’Brien recounts what happened to the Bonus Army March by WWI veterans who, by the winter of 1931, were desperately short of cash.