American Collapse

Counter Punch
View In: American CollapseReporting by U.S. news services often takes China to task for its strict preventative measures imposed to prevent Covid-19 infection. Reports point to economic instability and people’s distress resulting from such the uncompromising attitude. The slant of New York Times reporting, which minimized Chines...

The Guardian
View In: American CollapseThe land of the free is heading for ‘developing country’ status, based on a UN index that ranks quality of life. The UK’s not doing much betterWhat do you call a country where nearly one in 10 adults have medical debts and a broken bone can boot you into bankruptcy? A country where a city of more tha...

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: American CollapseThe rankings include the absence of poverty and hunger, good health and education, gender equality, clean air and water, and reduced inequality.

ZeroHedge News
View In: American CollapseThe American Kleptocracy: A Government Of Liars, Thieves, & Lawbreakers Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almos...

scheerpost.com
View In: American CollapseA growing share of Americans also report high levels of daily stress and worry, according to Gallup.

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: American CollapseThe imperial hubris on display in the use of such lingo towards poorer nations can't hide America's own failures.

ZeroHedge News
View In: American CollapseRecord Number Of Americans Are “Suffering”, Surpassing 2008 Crisis Levels; Gallup Poll Finds A plethora of data points show the consumer is absolutely miserable: real wages trend lower, cost of living skyrockets, the employment market softens, savings rate collapses, credit cards maxed out, and th...

ZeroHedge News
View In: American CollapseJust How Cooked Is The Official Jobs Data: PwC Finds More Than Half Of US Companies Are Laying Off Workers Nearly three months ago, when tabulating real-time mass layoffs data... ... Piper Sandler chief economist Nancy Lazar concluded that “post-covid rightsizing means that lots more layoffs are coming...

scheerpost.com
View In: American CollapseThe archeological remains of past civilizations, including those of the prehistoric Cahokia temple mound complex in Illinois, are sobering reminders of our fate.

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: American CollapseWhat goes up... Well, you know the rest.

ZeroHedge News
View In: American CollapseUS Rail System Still Deteriorating By Rick Paterson of Loop Capital Markets, first published in Railway Age We’re now in the second half of 2022, when the four major U.S. Class I’s have committed to turning their operations around, but the current state of play is not encouraging. Only Union Pacifi...

Surviving Tomorrow
View In: American CollapseA country that cannot tax the rich cannot protect itselfContinue reading on Surviving Tomorrow »

scheerpost.com
View In: American CollapseIf Europe has any insight, it will separate itself from these U.S. foreign policy debacles, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.

ZeroHedge News
View In: American CollapseUS Falls Behind In Hypersonic Weapons Race After Another Failed Test  America is lagging behind its international competitors in the hypersonic weapons race. This week's test provided more insight into just how badly the U.S. is behind.  Bloomberg was the first to report the Common Hypersonic Glide Bod...

scheerpost.com
View In: American CollapsePermanent war has cannibalized the country. It has created a social, political, and economic morass. Each new military debacle is another nail in the coffin of Pax Americana.

scheerpost.com
View In: American CollapseIn this premiere episode of “The Chris Hedges Report,” Dr. West joins Chris Hedges to discuss the decay of the American empire, the struggle to show international solidarity in the face of escalating militarism, and what it means to examine this historical moment through a moral and spiritual lens.

Popular Resistance
View In: American CollapseThe basic assumption of economic and diplomatic forecasting is that every country will act in its own self-interest. Such reasoning is of no help in today’s world. Observers across the political spectrum are using phrases like “shooting themselves in their own foot” to describe U.S. diplomatic confrontatio...

Counter Punch
View In: American CollapseFor more than a generation the most prominent U.S. diplomats have warned about what they thought would represent the ultimate external threat: an alliance of Russia and China dominating Eurasia. America’s economic sanctions and military confrontation have driven these two countries  together, and ar...

ZeroHedge News
View In: American CollapseEscobar: Follow The Money - How Russia Will Bypass Western Economic Warfare Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle, The US and EU are over-reaching on Russian sanctions. The end result could be the de-dollarization of the global economy and massive commodity shortages worldwide... So a congregatio...

View In: American CollapseThe US is a de facto one-party state where the ideology of national security is sacrosanct, unsustainable debt props up the empire and the primary business is war.

View In: American CollapseStories from places that are slowly coming apart.

PRESENT PUNK
View In: American CollapseThe big events of January 2022 that put us on the cyberpunk timeline. The post State of Dystopia: January 2022 appeared first on PRESENT PUNK.

Counter Punch
View In: American CollapseThe United States’ descent into pandemicist and neofascist Hell (something I have documenting for some time here at CounterPunch and recently in a new book titled This Happened Here) under the eco-cidal command of capital continues apace. Stupid and Selective Censorship Concerns The comments section...

ZeroHedge News
View In: American CollapseThe “Crapification” Of The US Economy Is Now Complete Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The crapification of the U.S. economy is now complete. The only thing left is the tiresome waiting for the implosion of the entire travesty of a mockery of a sham. The U.S. economy has fundamentall...

Alternet.org
View In: American CollapseA substantial number of the United States' 620,000 bridges need major improvement or replacement, a new report reveals. According to Axios, the report published by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) suggests 36% of America's bridges —which is equivalent to approximately 224,00...