Tag Archives: US global hegemony

"Neoliberal order." There, fixed it for you. In a twist on Trump’s “America First” policy, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Trump was not abandoning its global leadership but instead reshaping the post-World War Two system on the basis of sovereign states, not multilateral institutions. “In the finest traditions of our great democracy, we are rallying the noble nations to build a new liberal order that prevents war and achieves greater prosperity,” Pompeo told diplomats and...

Zero HedgeFormer Fed Governor Warns Of "Several Decade Cold War" With China Tyler Durden

The US Treasury has slapped the Chinese Military Commission's Equipment Development Department with sanctions, accusing the agency of violating US sanctions against Moscow by buying ten Russian Sukhoi Su-35 4++ generation fighter jets and Russia's S-400 surface-to-air missile system.… Desperation play.Back to the Cold War with the US erecting an iron curtain economically.Sputnik InternationalUS Sanctions Chinese Entity Over Purchase of Russian Fighters, S-400s - TreasurySee alsoZero HedgeUS...

Perhaps they had a chance back during the Obama days when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proposed her amusing “Reset” in USA-Russia relations to the new Medvedew Presidency following Putin’s rotation to the seat of Prime Minister in March 2009. Had Washington been a bit more perceptive and offered serious alternatives, it is conceivable that Washington would today have a geopolitical isolation of their second major problem on the Eurasian Continent, namely, the Peoples’ Republic of...

The Vineyard of the SakerThe US State Department Openly Outlined Its Plans to Guarantee America’s Global Primacy Sergey Latyshev Translated by Ollie Richardson and Angelina Siard Russia ObserverObama Marries The Liberals To The Neocons Patrick Armstrong Sic Semper TyrannisHarper: Neocons Keep Marching Through the InstitutionsGlobal InequalityOn the Threshold of the Third Globalization: why Liberal Capitalism might Fail? The Americas, armed trade and cheap energy: review of Kenneth...

Clearly, from the very outset, Trump has been “perceived by the globalist neo-liberal order as a mortal danger to the system which has enriched them” Jatras observes. The big question that Jatras poses in the wake of these events, is how could such collective hysteria have blossomed in to such visceral hostility, that parts of the ‘Anglo’ establishment are ready to intensify hostilities toward Russia – even to the point of risking “a catastrophic, uncontainable [nuclear] conflict”. How is...

Not one of his best, but Pepe is always worth the read. It's August, so not much happening to report anyway. Asia TimesSo what will The Sanctioned supergroup do? Pepe Escobar

Turkey joins Russia in declaring it is under US attack. Erdogan said those who plotted against Turkey in a failed coup attempt in July 2016 were now trying to target the country through its economy, and pledged to fight back. He did not name any countries. This is how WWIII starts. Leaders don't choose such words lightly.The US now engaged in hybrid war with China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Turkey, and Venezuela. Did I forget anyone?ReutersTurkey is a 'target of economic war',...

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