Shrinking the Empire A Session on the Imperial Couch

Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Empire as Basket Case 

 

Shrinking the Empire 
A Session on the Imperial Couch
By Tom Engelhardt
[What follows is a transcript of a therapy session between the American Empire and a psychiatrist whose name we at TomDispatch have agreed not to disclose. Normally, even in an age in which privacy means ever less to anyone, we wouldn’t consider publishing such a private encounter, but the probative news value of the exchange is so obvious that we decided to make an exception. The transcript has been edited only for obvious repetitions and the 

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