The Chris Hedges Report Show with retired Army Colonel, Vietnam War veteran and former history professor at Boston University Andrew Bacevich on bidding farewell to the American century.

At the end of any empire there are always a handful of chroniclers who, like Cicero in the Roman Republic, see clearly the looming disintegration of empire. They call out the bankruptcy of an inept and corrupt ruling class, blinded by hubris, as well as a populace that has checked out of civic life and is entranced by bread and circus spectacles. Chalme…