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Alfred W. Mccoy

Alfred W. Mccoy

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Trump Ushers in the Second Coming of McKinley’s Gilded Age Imperialism

06.03.2025 3

Common Dreams

Alfred W. Mccoy

Slouching Towards Mount McKinley

In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected many different things from...

06.03.2025 20

CounterPunch

Alfred W. Mccoy

Trump’s Inaugural Speech Signaled His Agenda by Invoking McKinley’s Ghost

If these last few weeks are any indication, the next four years will bring avoidable suffering for much of the world.

04.03.2025 5

Truthout

Alfred W. Mccoy

Trump’s Refusal to Invest in EVs Could Hand the World’s Economic Future to China

28.01.2025 4

Common Dreams

Alfred W. Mccoy

The World’s 4 Legacy Empires Are in Free Fall—What Comes Next?

If France, Russia, China, and the U.S. now give way in a collective version of collapse, instead of one succeeding another, we may come to know a...

26.12.2024 5

Common Dreams

Alfred W. Mccoy

The Rise of Trump, the Fall of Imperial America

Some 2,000 years ago, an itinerant preacher, Saul of Tarsus, was writing to a wayward congregation in Corinth, Greece. Curiously enough, his words...

26.12.2024 4

CounterPunch

Alfred W. Mccoy

Could Trump 2.0 End the American Century?

Trump’s second term will almost certainly be one of imperial decline, increasing internal chaos, and a further loss of global leadership.

20.11.2024 5

Common Dreams

Alfred W. Mccoy

Requiem for an Empire

Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus...

20.11.2024 10

CounterPunch

Alfred W. Mccoy

Are the US and Its Pacific Allies Building Toward a Hot War With China?

Despite renewed strength in what is distinctly becoming a new cold war, America’s Asia-Pacific alliances face both immediate challenges and a...

16.10.2024 2

Common Dreams

Alfred W. Mccoy

Powder Keg in the Pacific

While the world looks on with trepidation at regional wars in Israel and Ukraine, a far more dangerous global crisis is quietly building at the...

16.10.2024 10

CounterPunch

Alfred W. Mccoy