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America's Decline Gives Bush Putin-Envy

By Mark Ames, The eXile. Posted September 29, 2006.


Nothing could make America's decline as a global power more embarrassing for the national psyche than the fact that Russia is on the rise -- and USA's patriotic press going bezerk in the process.
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Mark Ames is editor of the Moscow English alt weekly, The eXile. He is the author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton¿s Columbine and Beyond.

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