Tag Archives: US imperialism

Everything that happens geopolitically and geoeconomically in our turbulent times has to do with the US’ do-or-die imperial struggle against the Russia-China strategic partnership. Only total “victory,” by any means necessary, would assure the continuation of what could be defined as the New American Century. And that brings us to the necessity of reconstructing Clausewitz’s axiom, according to which, originally, war is a continuation of politics by other means. Clausewitz argued that war...

Pretty funny, and very apt. Tulsi is the only foreign policy realist that is running against endless, so far at least.Duffel BlogMaj. Tulsi Gabbard receives surprise deployment orders to Antarctica [satire] Yossarian

Short review of Ron Ridenour's new book. Ridenour is a foreign policy realist. Reminiscence of the FutureThe Russian Peace Threat by Ron RidenourAndrei Martyanov

Backgrounder on Afghanistan. Not really about Trump except the first few paragraphs. Trump just talking though his butt. The real not-so-hidden agenda lies elsewhere. And, as everywhere, "follow the money."Asia TimesPepe Escobar: How to kill 10 million Afghans and not win Pepe Escobar

Anyone see a pattern here? Any wonder why there is a push for multilateralism to counter unipolarism (read world dominance).News in AsiaLaughable: US Claims ‘Free and Open Seas,’ Tries to Push China Out of Indian, Pacific Trade Pepe Escobar SouthFrontMike Pompeo Says Foreign Actors Must Leave Venezuela, So That US Can Rebuild It

With self-proclaimed Venezuelan Interim President Juan Guaido’s third coup having failed, it’s important to take measure of the global goals Washington has in trying to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro and the Bolivarian movement. One historian told Sputnik the US would gain much-needed leverage over rivals like China.... "If US imperialism can then get under its belt Venezuelan oil, and Iranian oil, and have the Permian Basin in Texas, it's controlling the lifeblood of the Chinese...

Sputnik International interviews Michael Hudson. Audio and transcript.Michael Hudson — On Finance, Real Estate And The Powers Of NeoliberalismSuper-Imperialism at the PentagonMichael Hudson | President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Guest Professor at Peking University

The corporate media is deliberately giving readers the false impression that Venezuela is ‘flirting with dictatorship’. In reality, these claims couldn’t be further from the truth. But majority support for a Constituents Assembly, and the fact that the Governing United Socialist Party won 17 out of 23 governor races is irrelevant to Washington’s nefarious objectives. US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson is threatening to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is he doesn’t leave of his...