America Next: End of the World As We Knew It

 

This is an important set of observations by Steve Clemons, whose blog is moving over to The Atlantic, where he is the new Washington Editor at Large and Editor in Chief of Atlantic LIVE.

America Next: End of the World As We Knew It

By Steve Clemons

In the case of the United States - which has been indisputably the reigning global superpower for six decades - there are signs - ranging from the tumult in the Middle East to a humiliating war in Afghanistan to a downgrade of US sovereign debt - that America is at a key inflection point in its history and that the US network of global control (aka, "empire") is disintegrating.