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The vast Arctic permafrost is fast receding, releasing enormous stores of lethal greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

When midnight strikes on New Year’s Day of 2050, there will be little cause for celebration. There will, of course, be the usual toasts with fine wines in the climate-controlled compounds of the wealthy few. But for most of humanity, it’ll just be another day of adversity bordering on misery — a des...

Alfred McCoy on the shifting global order, plus Kristina Wong on mutual aid.

Chris Hedges discusses the decline of the American empire and the new global order with Professor Alfred McCoy, who holds the Harrington Chair in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

(Essential to understanding the geopolitical backstory history that is unfolding before our eyes today with the tenuous situation in Afghanistan with the Taliban and their evolving relationship with the regional hegemon Peoples Republic of China) Distinguished Faculty Lecture with Alfred W. McCoy Two related books by Alfred McCoy: In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power, and To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change. At the turn of the las...

Antiwar.com Original Originally posted at TomDispatch. Shouldn’t we be amazed? After all, for almost 20 years, the U.S. military has been supporting, equipping, training, and building up the Afghan military to the tune of more than $70 billion. The result: a corrupt mess of a force likely to prove incapable of successfully defending the U.S.-backed Afghan state from the Taliban once our troops are gone — that is, by this September 11th. I mean, what were the od...

Than any other negotiation hes been in, whether it was running a new york real estate business or some negotiations hes done while in office. and so he -- for him, again, its all about chemistry, sort of personal interaction, getting in the room with someone and its very transactional. so, as you saw at the g7, sort of these traditional world orders and, you know, alliances can very easily be blown up. and in a certain way, although i dont think the president would put it this bluntly, but my co...