Submitted by onetahiti on December 6, 2010 - 11:06am.
Alternet.org has had some gritty stories recently. Here's one.
"[W]hen things start to go truly bad, empires regularly unravel with unholy speed: just a year for Portugal, two years for the Soviet Union, eight years for France, 11 years for the Ottomans..."
Alfred McCoy takes a look into our near future: Link...
