[PAA-Discuss] The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

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The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
		
		Four Scenarios for the End of the American Century by 2025
		By Alfred W. McCoy
		

		Source: TomDispatch
		Monday, December 06, 2010
		

		
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 soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don’t bet on it. The demise
 of the United States as the global superpower could come far more 
quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 
as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of 
domestic and global trends suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from 
now, it could all be over except for the shouting.

	 

	Despite
 the aura of omnipotence most empires project, a look at their history 
should remind us that they are fragile organisms. So delicate is their 
ecology of power that, when things start to go truly bad, empires 
regularly unravel with unholy speed: just a year for Portugal, two years
 for the Soviet Union, eight years for France, 11 years for the 
Ottomans, 17 years for Great Britain, and, in all likelihood, 22 years 
for the United States, counting from the crucial year 2003.
 
	



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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. 

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