Trump's Liquidation of U.S Global Leadership

Trump's Liquidation of U.S Global Leadership

Some geopolitical aspects of how Trump's mazimixation of his personal power comes at the expense of the US

The Self-Liquidation of U.S Global Leadership

With the Oval Office looking more like a middle school classroom every day, let’s recall the way, once upon a time, we responded to childhood taunts from a playground bully. You remember how it goes. Your nemesis says mockingly that you’re a this-or-that and you shout back: “Takes one to know one!” Indeed, it does. This month, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said of his fellow billionaire Elon Musk: “The world’s richest man has been involved in the…

The self-liquidation of U.S global leadership

Why the world’s richest nation is killing the world’s poorest children.

Starving Babies: The Self-Liquidation of U.S. Global Soft Power

( Tomdispatch.com ) – With the Oval Office looking more like a middle school classroom every day, let’s recall the way, once upon a time, we responded to childhood taunts from a playground bully. You remember how it goes. Your nemesis says mockingly that you’re a this-or-that and you shout back: “Takes one to know one!” Indeed, it does. This month, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said of his fellow billionaire Elon Musk: “The world’s richest man ha…

Alfred W. McCoy - The Self-Liquidation of U.S Global Leadership - Brave New Europe

Amid the blizzard of executive orders and bizarre budgetary decisions pouring out of the Trump White House, the cuts will do lasting damage to aid victims and America’s sense of global leadership. Alfred W. McCoy, is the Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power. His most recent book is To Govern the Globe: World Or…