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On Friday, April 5, 2013, J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Alfred McCoy, delivered the keynote speech at…
Alfred W. McCoy
It’s 2025 and an American “triple canopy” of advanced surveillance and armed drones fills the heavens from the lower- to the exo-atmosphere.…
After a decade of fiery public debate and bare-knuckle partisan brawling, the United States has stumbled toward an ad hoc bipartisan compromise over the…
In one of history’s lucky accidents, the juxtaposition of two extraordinary events has stripped the architecture of American global power bare for…
A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don’t bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global…
The crisis has come suddenly, almost without warning. At the far edge of American power in Asia, things are going from bad…
In ways that have escaped most observers, the Obama administration is now trapped in an endless cycle of drugs and death in…
In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to…
If, like me, you’ve been following America’s torture policies not just for the last few years, but for decades, you can’t help…
In April 2004, Americans were stunned when CBS broadcast those now-notorious photographs from Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, showing hooded Iraqis stripped naked…