Posted by smeddum on May 2, 2009
Farewell, the American Century: Rewriting the Past by Adding In What’s Been Left Out
Tuesday 28 April 2009
by: Andrew J. Bacevich | Visit article original @ TomDispatch.com
Truthout
In a recent column, the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen wrote, “What Henry Luce called ‘the American Century’ is over.” Cohen is right. All that remains is to drive a stake through the heart of Luce’s pernicious creation, lest it come back to life. This promises to take some doing. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on April 21, 2009
American Empire Foreclosed?
By MARK ENGLER
April 20, 2009
See also inthesenewtimes.com editorial
Not long ago, excitement over American imperialism reached levels not seen in a century. “People are coming out of the closet on the word ‘empire,’” the right-wing columnist Charles Krauthammer told The New York Times in early 2002. Neoconservatives were on the rise in Washington, and their leading propagandists were not shy in making the case for aggressive expansionism. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on April 19, 2009
Speaking at one of many “tea party” anti-Washington protests held throughout the country on April 15, Texas Gov. Rick Perry touched on a theme that could, I believe, prefigure a growing trend in American politics – and, indeed, throughout the world. He hit all the partisan talking points that are so familiar to my readers that I won’t bother reiterating them, and then remarked that Texas is doing relatively better than some other states, in spite of the “federal budget mess.” According to the Dallas Morning News, at this point “some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, ‘Secede!’” The Governor took up this theme in remarks to reporters afterward: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2009
BEIJING (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his two-day visit to Beijing this week is part of the creation of a “new world order.”
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Posted by seumasach on April 7, 2009
Sandro Cruz
1st April, 2009
Alors que l’Albanie et la Croatie ont adhéré à l’OTAN le 1er avril 2009 et que l’Alliance célèbrera son soixantenaire à Kehl, les 3 et 4 avril, le Réseau Voltaire a demandé au professeur Daniele Ganser son appréciation de cette organisation. Pour ce spécialiste mondialement reconnu de l’histoire de l’OTAN, l’Alliance n’a plus de vocation défensive depuis la fin de l’URSS et se résume désormais à la suzeraineté états-unienne sur l’Europe.
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Posted by seumasach on April 5, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on April 5, 2009
Mr Salbuchi draws on Argentina’s experience over the last thirty or forty years to provide invaluable insight into the current crisis. However, the model cannot be applied mechanically to this global crisis. Salbuchi assumes the point at issue , namely, the continued ability of the USA to manipulate the situation to its own advantage. In doing so he ignores the entire counter-globalisation movement at both state and non-state level. Yes, the struggle for a new world order has begun, but it’s outcome can be based on multipolarity as well as US hegemony. Specifically, Salbuchi ignores the fact that the process of creating an alternative to the dollar as a global currency has already begun. A great video, with a salutary warning, but unduly pessimistic.
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Posted by seumasach on April 5, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on March 31, 2009
US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has unveiled his long-awaited plan to put the US banking system back in order. In doing so, he has refused to tell the ‘dirty little secret‘ of the present financial crisis. By refusing to do so, he is trying to save de facto bankrupt US banks that threaten to bring the entire global system down in a new more devastating phase of wealth destruction.
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Posted by seumasach on March 29, 2009
“This is the biggest rip-off in the history of man. There is no end in sight. When will the Obama administration get it? Obama will have to learn the toughest decision there is in business – when it’s time to stop throwing good money after bad money.”
The crisis in the United States has taken a dangerous turn over the past week, a turn that may prove to be the undoing of the Barack Obama presidency.
Hossein Askari and Noureddine Krichene
27th March, 2009
On January 20, Obama stepped into much more than the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression. He inherited the helm of a country ravaged by 30 years of runaway human greed and a complicit government that rewarded it. Obama now finds himself in the middle of a perfect tempest, buffeted on the one side by a relentless financial and economic downturn and on the other a bewildered nation waking up to the landscape of unparalleled economic injustice that had been hidden out of sight with most Americans working hard just to get by.
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Posted by seumasach on March 24, 2009
Interview with Igor Panarin, doctor of political science, dean of the foreign affairs department at the Diplomacy Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry,
As early as autumn 2009 the economic crisis may lead to a civil war in the USA and then to its division into parts. Igor Panarin, doctor of political science, dean of the foreign affairs department at the Diplomacy Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry, presented this forecast ten years ago. At that time his forecasts seemed unrealistic, but now many of them are coming true.
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In These New Times 