The U.S. has spent the last half-century holding its breath.  The post-WW-recovery flattened out in the early 1970s and, since then, the country has witness the end of the “American Dream” with ever-increasing inequality, and the collapse of the “great powers” imperialist gambit with military defeats from Vietnam to now Afghanistan. In a 2014 piece More

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