{"id":280487,"date":"2024-11-18T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=280487"},"modified":"2024-11-16T06:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T06:47:30","slug":"the-end-of-the-us-empire-the-denial-of-the-us-and-the-rise-of-china-and-brics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/11\/the-end-of-the-us-empire-the-denial-of-the-us-and-the-rise-of-china-and-brics\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of the US Empire, the Denial of the US, and the Rise of China and BRICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\"><strong>12 Nov 2024<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">The relative economic decline of the US and its allies (G7) versus China and its allies (BRICS) leads to: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">realignment of global trade and investment, <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">changed global politics and alliances, and <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">basic cultural shifts inside and among nations. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">The political crises facing the United States at home and abroad hinge on this question: How will the US manage its decline? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Richard Wolff: The End of the US Empire and the Denial of the US, and the Rise of China and BRICS\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R0lPWGlwPvk?start=155&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, founder of Democracy at Work, host of the weekly podcast available on radio, TV, and YouTube entitled \u201cEconomic Update,\u201d and author of numerous works. His latest book, Understanding Capitalism, available on DemocracyAtWork.info.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">The Community Church of Boston: A Peace and Justice Congregation Since 1920: <\/span><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbklqZlJLaU04VkhUaWlMR0k1eHhHeDExQXZJZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttWTVnbGxBSGpjcHdrelJzX2NiRDNLM3p5c1hnd2tZdC1QSGRmNmd5dkdBVzk4cVljRWlSY05IRVdsNVNyOTlGMWNSemxHQlRwU0xuRktfa0t3b29saDRfN3JqVkxpTjdXY1d1cTJFenR5cVdNUzdWcw&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.communitychurchofboston.org%2Fhome%2F&amp;v=R0lPWGlwPvk\" class=\"yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color\" tabindex=\"0\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.or&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 Nov 2024 &#8211; The political crises facing the United States at home and abroad hinge on this question: How will the US manage its decline?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[239,244,354,2200,70],"class_list":["post-280487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-brics","tag-china","tag-economics","tag-us-empire","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280488,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280487\/revisions\/280488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}