Tag Archives: US global hegemony

Blowing a lead.Reminiscence of the FutureFareed Zakaria Woke Up? Andrei MartyanovSee alsoCheckpoint AsiaTrump Has Lost All Leverage With Iran Marko Marjanović Also at CATrump Remembers He’s the President, Tells Bolton, Pompeo to Dial It Back on Iran Erin Banco China’s State Media Tells Us It Picked the ‘Wrong Rival at the Wrong Time’ Teddy Ng

Hudson, who, by my primitive criteria, is one of the best (true) economics and economic history brains of our time doesn't mince the words and calls it as he sees it (correctly): Trump’s Trade Threats Are Really Cold War 2.0. Hudson correctly identifies the issue…. Reminiscence of the FutureSo, Michael Hudson Calls It.Andrei Martyanov

Igor Sechin, the CEO of Rosneft and one of the most powerful people in Russia, isn’t jumping on the Alt-Media bandwagon of speculating about America’s supposedly imminent demise but is instead warning that it might actually be about to enter a “golden age”, albeit one that could very easily lead to “energy colonialism” all across the world.... And this is what is now happening. Exhibit #1 is "freedom gas." More expensive, but, hey, "freedom" doesn't come without cost. Eurasia FutureRussia...

Brook no competitors. Huawei is nothing new. But taking a country the size of China is. The US did not need the Japanese or French markets. The Chinese market is quite a different matter.KenyaTalkBefore the US started harassing Huawei, there was Toshiba of Japan and Alstom of France in the same boat OkwonkwoSee also The consequence of the the 737 MAX accidents give China a tool to exert pressure of its own. The credibility of the U.S. regulator FAA is damaged as it was the last one to...

“What's happening is that China is finally going global,” Richard Sakwa told The Real News Network’s Sharmini Peries. “[China] is leveraging its growing economic power into a network of relationships which are spanning not just Eurasia all the way to Europe, but also in Africa.” Sakwa noted that while China is now developing a second military base, the United States has approximately 600 military bases around the world: “China is challenging not so much U.S. primacy but the way that it has...

De-globalization and the collapse of the Post WWII world order. Sailing into uncharted territory. Strategic Culture FoundationThe Dire, Unintended Consequences of Trump’s MAGA War on China Alastair Crooke | founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, and former British diplomat and senior figure in British intelligence and in European Union diplomacy See also Consortium NewsPATRICK LAWRENCE: Pompeo, Pence & the Alienation of Europe

Trump’s Energy Dominance plan is predicated on keeping control of the flow and pricing of oil around the world. This is why he’s meddling around in Venezuela, a project more than twenty years in the making by the U.S. but which he philosophically agrees with.He has no ability to stop the drive within our government to keep the Middle East a powder keg because Israel acts as if peace is an existential threat.But none of that will change the trend that now dominates, which is that the U.S.,...

“America’s strategy when it comes to China is easy to understand: crush them. Drive them into the ground. Make sure that they can’t undo American power and influence not just in Asia but around the world. That’s Trump’s goal, and he is doing one hell of a job. I couldn’t be happier.” That’s the response I received over drinks when I asked a former senior Trump administration official—speaking on background—what Washington’s strategy was when it comes to the People’s Republic of China.… The...

As Alistair Crooke succinctly put it last year at Strategic Culture: The US – were energy dominance to succeed – simply would control the tap to the economic development – or its lack thereof – for rivals China, and Asia. And the US could squeeze Russia’s revenues in this way, too. In short, the US could put a tourniquet on China’s and Russia’s economic development plans. Is this why JCPOA was revoked by President Trump? Here then, is the squaring of that circle (more US power, yet less...

Tom Luongo explains the real reasons behind the US attack on Huawei are part of the ongoing US hybrid war against China and Russia as competitors. It's about power and money, as always.Tom Luongo5G, Huawei and Us — The U.S. Hates Competition