What have the Americans ever done for us?
From Hiroshima to Guantánamo, from Guatemala to Iraq: as American hegemony fractures loudly and in real time, history demands we finally ask what the world’s last empire is now leaving behind — and for whom
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BRITISH EMPIRE
Debt, not war: the logic of hegemonic transition
In 1956, a phone call ended an empire. Not with bombs, but with bonds. Today’s hegemonic transition follows the same logic: power shifts not on battlefields, but through debt, currency and control of financial infrastructure