To much of the world, the United States is an out-of-control empire that must be carefully talked back down off the ledge before it drags everyone over the edge.
This situation is made all the more tricky because it is accompanied by unsettling suspicions that the empire—facing insurgencies around the world, its military stretched thin—is losing power. Things don't look good. The standard of living appears to be declining, trade is in dangerous straits, the dollar is losing to the euro.
The Village Voice: Bully for Us by James Ridgeway
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