2009/06/14 - This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency. It marks the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States. And it signals the last gasp of the American imperium. That’s over. It is not coming back. And what is to come will be very, very painful. - The American Empire Is Bankrupt
Nir Rosen: As so often, the term 'terrorism' has proved a rhetorical smokescreen under cover of which the strong crush the weak