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Alfred W. McCoy is the Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of "In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power." His new book is "To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change."

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America is still paying for W: Afghanistan, Iraq and our looming geopolitical crisis

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American imperialists are deluding themselves: Henry Kissinger, George W. Bush and the end of U.S. hegemony

Alfred McCoy

American exceptionalism is a sick joke

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America’s always been a surveillance state

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Beyond battleships and bayonets

Alfred McCoy
Threatened and fallen dictator friends of the United States. Clockwise from upper left: Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, Bahrain's Hamad bin Isa Khalifa, Tunisia's Ben Ali and Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh

Washington in a bind as local despots fall

Alfred McCoy, Brett Reilly
CIA Director Michael Hayden, right, looks on as President Bush speaks before signing the Military Commissions Act of 2006 which sets new standards expediting the interrogation and prosecution of terror suspects during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006.

The CIA’s secret history of psychological torture

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