Tag Archives: American Empire

The US Congress has revived the so-called “NOPEC” bill for countering OPEC and OPEC+. Officially called the “No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act”, NOPEC is the definition of so-called “lawfare” because it enables the US to extraterritorially impose its domestic legislation on others by giving the government the right to sue OPEC and OPEC+ countries like Russia because of their coordinated efforts to control oil prices. Lawsuits, however, are unenforceable, which is why the...

"War" is in the air now. Sputnik International Iran Supreme Leader Calls for 'Swift, Just' Legal Action to Face 'Economic War'See alsoReutersIran Supreme Leader calls for action to face 'economic war': state TV

Washington’s denial to Iran of Boeing Aircraft (and Airbus planes because they contain US-made parts), means the loss of tens of thousands of highly-paid jobs in the US and Europe. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claims he talked Trump into canceling the Iran nuclear deal and the Boeing orders. It’s hard to validate Netanyahu’s claim but it is clear that America’s ever more powerful Israel lobby and its ally fundamentalist Christian Zionists played a key role in thwarting the...

Few Americans today understand how the United States came to be owned by a London-backed neoconservative/right-wing alliance that grew out of the institutional turmoil of the post-Vietnam era. Even fewer understand how its internal mission to maintain the remnants of the old British Empire gradually overcame American democracy and replaced it with a “national security” bureaucracy of its own design.... Weekend reading, if you like intrigue.Disclaimer: I can't voucher for the factual claims,...

Krugman believes that Trump is threatening to destroy America’s great “empire” and that this is bad, because our country’s “empire” is good and noble. Trump, Krugman suggests, is an aberrant departure from the lofty values and ideals that have guided our foreign policy for most of the past century. Unfortunately, Robinson doesn't cite the warning of the founding fathers about avoiding entangling alliances, and that failure to do so would insert the fledging US into the same politics as...

John Quincy Adams warned against foreign entanglements and imperial ambitions.Jack MatlockMUSINGS III … Celebrating July 4 Jack Matlock, retired career foreign service officer and US ambassador to Russia, 1987-1991.

The Empire at work. Is history about to repeat?Al Jazzera — OpinionVenezuela is about to explode Matias Vernengo | Associate Professor of Economics, Bucknell UniversitySee alsoNaked KeynesianismLula da Silva is a political prisoner. Free Lula!Matias Vernengo | Associate Professor of Economics, Bucknell University

Most US citizens don't realize it, but the US government has continued and even intensified its regime change agenda in Latin America and successfully helped reverse the so-called "pink tide" of left-of-center governments over the past ten years, says CEPR's Mark Weisbrot.... TRNNUS Interventions in Latin America Continue and Intensify Greg Wilpert interviews Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C.

Must-read. It's the story of American empire, the quest for permanent global hegemony under American and allied elites, and imperial overreach followed by imperial decline. We are now in the midst of it.TomDispatchA Tale of American Hubris — Or Five Lessons in the History of American Defeat Tom Engelhardt

The take-away: "Negotiations must be equal, and China will not accept any consultation under unilateral coercion,” Gao said." China (and Russia) demand to be treated as equals, which would mean the US accepting multipolarity.  Is the US willing to go to the mat to maintain unipolarity? Stay tuned.ReutersChina warns U.S. not to open Pandora's Box, unleash trade ills on world Se Young Lee and Yawen Chen