The American Empire

http://www.americanempireproject.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism
http://rt.com/op-edge/us-economy-politics-shutdown-637/
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/09/24/obama_to_world_bad_news_the_american_empire_is_dead
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-feffer/retiring-the-american-emp_b_3704913.html
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/jun/06/us-economy-decline-recovery-challenges
http://jacobinmag.com/2013/09/the-decline-of-the-american-empire/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/29/the-logical-and-coming-end-to-the-us-empire/
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/01/31/howard-zinn-1922-2010-on-american-empire/
http://massthink.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/immanuel-wallerstein-on-empire-and-geopolitics/