Tag Archives: US global hegemony

Once upon a time, when there were still two superpowers on Planet Earth, Washington’s worldwide military posture had a clear rationale: the containment of communism. Soon after the Soviet Union imploded in 1991 to much triumphalist self-congratulation in Washington, the scholar and former CIA consultant Chalmers Johnson had an epiphany. What he would come to call “the American Raj,” a global imperial structure ostensibly built to corral the menace of communism, wasn’t going away just...

Another expensive and potentially dangerous boondoggle aimed at world domination? What is wrong with these people.Tom DispatchAlfred McCoy, How the Pentagon Snatched Innovation From the Jaws of DefeatAlfred McCoy | Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of the The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, and In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power (Dispatch Books) from which this piece is...

More grand chessboard.More interference in countries most Americans don't know where are and some they never even heard of. Why? "China." Translation: Maintaining permanent US global hegemony. CounterpunchAmerica’s Long War: US Tightens the Noose on ChinaSean Stinson

Geopolitics and geostrategy.Russia InsiderWhy Jihadism Won’t Be Allowed to Die Pepe Escobar