Empire Suicide Watch on the revamped Phenomenal World...
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"I do think there is justification for saying this is an empire on suicide watch: the leadership at the center is actively undermining the very foundations of American power."
Schwartz interview is really really good
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“At irregular intervals, voices from the left and right of center raise the question of American decline. What can we learn from this march of failed predictions? Will the doomsayers always be wrong? Or just early?”
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¿Estamos llegando al final del “siglo americano”? La pregunta se cierne sobre la turbulenta política mundial de este milenio y, en los últimos dieciocho meses, ha dado lugar a respuestas que adoptan la forma de una aparente paradoja.
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A new collection on American power—past, present, and future.
As expected, @thunen.bsky.social is absolutely on 🔥 in this interview. There’s no one out there with more receipts on the international political economy of US empire. Every sentence full of insight.
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Benjamin Braun
“The blockade aims to undermine the example of anti-imperial resistance and internationalism that Cuba has cultivated for more than six decades.”
In our brand new issue AMERICAN POWER, Lourdes Regueiro and Claudia Marin write on US aggression in Cuba.
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La fragilidad institucional postelectoral, crisis económica y expectativas sobre nuevo gobierno explican la incertidumbre política en Bolivia.
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The UK did something unprecedented for a major oil producer when it recently called time on future North Sea drilling. @freddiedaley.bsky.social and I have written for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social on why the North Sea's history shows life after Brent means we need more not less state intervention.
I agree: "In this, a paradox is hard to miss: for all its autocratic and repressive tendencies at home, China has been a team player abroad, championing what many would consider progressive changes in key areas of global governance." @phenomenalworld.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...
In January of 2026, the Trump administration imposed a total blockade of oil shipments to Cuba, plunging its oil-dependent electricity grid into chaos. The administration’s economic war marks the late...
