Tag: US empire

Joachim Hagopian, City of London’s Divide & Rule Strategy Pits Vassal West’s Bloodthirst Against Controlled Opposition East

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Joachim Hagopian Today’s seismic geopolitical power shift swiftly moving from West to East is on full public display this week at the China hosted Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) annual summit. On Monday September 1st, Chinese Premier Xi Jinping emphasized embracing multipolarity and multilateralism, openly challenging the US/West’s long-time unipolar hegemony. Alliances like the BRICS and SCO forged by Eastern powers China and Russia have eclipsed America’s long-time reign as sole global superpower and prevailing dominance over this last century. China’s Belt and Road Initiative investing and building in other nations’ infrastructure works more effectively…

Joachim Hagopian, It’s Time to Stop “Supporting Our Troops”: Thirty Million People Killed by U.S. Since the End of World War II

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Joachim Hagopian On this Memorial Day weekend when Americans are supposed to reflect back to honor our dead soldiers that have fought for our freedoms over the centuries, I’m reminded of an article I wrote for Global Research nearly 10 years ago. I came to realize that unconditionally “supporting our troops” has been a big part of the problem why America has been at war somewhere in this world 93% of our quarter millennium as a nation. As the most warring nation on earth, supporting our troops might not be such an…

Rob Urie, Iran, Venezuela and the Throes of Empire

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by ROB URIE With the Trump administration threatening war against Iran and Venezuela, the question of how the U.S. was brought to this point needs to be considered. To argue that current circumstances are particular to this administration is to overlook U.S. history vis-a-vis both Iran and Venezuela and that between them they possess a material proportion of the world’s proved oil reserves (graph below). In 2019, the pretense that local provocations explain anything beyond domestic political posturing is absurd. However, domestic political considerations do explain threats of war to a…