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Source: TomDispatch

9/8/2020

Fourth World: From the End of History to American Carnage

by Tom Engelhardt

A critic of American empire examines the unforeseen path from the triumphal "end of history" moment of the collapse of the Soviet Union to the rise of Donald Trump. How did the nation squander the opportunity?

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Fourth World: From the End of History to American Carnage

by Tom Engelhardt