2025: the end of US dominance --
the National Intelligence Council global trends review is out, and contrary to 2004's rosy view of 2020-- still dominated by US and with oil to burn--the new forecast sees things very differently. (pdf link to full report at bottom article)

"... the world is entering an increasingly unstable and unpredictable period in which the advance of western-style democracy is no longer assured, and some states are in danger of being "taken over and run by criminal networks". ..."

I never heard of this "Freedom 21" bunch before, and don't exactly remember what I was looking for when I ran across it. This page, which is all I read of the site, may be the quintessential description of what we need to be doing: founding groups with rah-rah Good Words in the name and appointing each other to high-ranking status in said groups.