Is US 'Sole Superpower' Reign at Risk? The United States economy is stagnant and faces the possibility of a Depression. Bookmark

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Its currency has lost a quarter of its value on global markets in three years. No country in the entire history of humankind has ever owed as much money to foreigners as the US does today, and this debt rises by about a billion dollars a day. (Written story continues below) Analyst Aijaz Ahmad also notes that its military expenditures are higher than those of the next twenty countries combined. It's time to question basic assumptions about US foreign policy. TheRealNews.com is an independent news network that produces stories of global interest. To comment at Consortiumblog, click here. (To make a blog comment about this or other stories, you can use your normal e-mail address and password. Ignore the prompt for a Google account.) To comment to us by e-mail, click here. To donate so we can continue publishing stories like the one you just read, click here. Back to Home Page





