Our Troubled World in 2025
Expert Predictions

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
November 21, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/376/our-troubled-world-in-2025

Excerpt:

The news today is not all one might desire. At home, The National Intelligence Council, a body of analysts from every spectrum of the American intelligence community, has issued a report that is quite bleak.

It says, in part, that "the next two decades will see a world living with the daily threat of nuclear war, environmental catastrophe and the decline of America as the dominant global power… The world of the near future will be subject to an increased likelihood of conflict over resources, including food and water, and will be haunted by the persistence of rogue states and terrorist groups with greater access to nuclear weapons."

The Report further predicts a "transfer of wealth from West to East," a rise in the "influence of nonstate actors" and the "decline" of "the United States' relative strength."

Which brings us to the next problem of the day: I did not read about this Report on the front pages of my New York newspapers. I found it in the online version of the Times of London.

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