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West Being Eclipsed By Hi-Tech East
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
09 Apr 2019
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Although Russiagate has fizzled, US imperialism has entered a new level of instability, unable to compete with the rising powers of the East and facing a crisis of legitimacy at home, said Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Duboisian scholar. “For the first time,” said Monteiro, “world capitalism faces an alternative economic model which is technologically surpassing the West,” said Montiero.

U.S. Imperialism in Decline

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