In its dotage the empire’s diplomacy is reduced to making threats, a sign of growing weakness. Unfortunately, however, it cannot be assumed that they are idle threats: as long as the Wall Street/City/MIC mob are in control we are not safe from the madness of a greater war. On the positive side the wider world is fat awakening to the threat: the urgent need now is for a genuine opposition to crystallise in the US/UK. That may be emerging in the US around figures such as Cynthia McKinney, Ron Paul and Cindy Sheehan. Can we in the UK take our cue from them? More broadly, can we grasp the potential within the emerging multipolar world, recognising both our own imperialism and the fact that opposition to it necessarily takes the form of the re-emergence of countries such as Russia, Brazil and India as genuinely independent, sovereign nations.
16th March, 2010
The Sunday Herald has reported that hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia.
In These New Times 