United States imperialism in general

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The Great Game: The Comeback of Brasen Empire
By Fred Goldstein, Workers World, 18 January 1996. Trillions which should have been spent on education, housing, health care, and jobs were thrown into the Pentagon, the CIA, political subversion and economic blockade. All this was done in the name of defending freedom and democracy, but really aimed at imperialist conquest.
Quest for domination falters: Signs of slippage for the U.S. ruling class
By Fred Goldstein, Workers World, 27 November 1997. Whatever the outcome of the Iraq crisis, it has shown that the U.S. ruling class is beginning to lose control of events. This loss of control will bring more and more openings for resistance to its unchallenged domination at home and abroad.
The United States is clearly the world's no. 1 ‘rogue state’
By Edward S. Herman, Z magazine, [19 September 1998]. The U.S. engages in wholesale roguery; it is a terrorist state or sponsor of terror. Under the rule of the Biggest, the law and rules of morality apply only to others, not to the ruler.
US as global overlord: Dumbing down, American-style
By Herbert I. Schiller, Le Monde diplomatique, August 1999. The American presence in the world economy and culture remains commanding. Its supremacy is recognised universally and with increasing resentment. Yet how the world sees us may not be as revealing as how we see ourselves.
America's Empire Rules an Unbalanced World
By Robert Hunter Wade, Internatinoal Herald Tribune, Thursday 3 January 2001. To supervise the international framework you want international organizations that look like cooperatives of member states and carry the legitimacy of multilateralism, but are financed in a way that allows you to control them. Globalization and the global supervisory organizations enable the United States to harness the rest of the world to its own rhythms and structure.
US Foreign Policies a Comedy of Costly Errors
Opinion by Karanja Mbugua, The Nation (Nairobi), 11 June 2001. The main vision that drives this system is that of the dominant powers of the world led by the United States and actively supported by the European Union and Japan. The political container of this economic vision is multiparty democracy, while the military organ is the American might and the expanding North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato).
The New Imperialism
By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, 6 November 2001. The major contest in most modern cultures concerns the definition or interpretation of each culture. This goes way beyond a simplistic clash of cultures. There are closer ties between apparently warring civilizations than most of us would like to believe. The name of the game in the 21st century is interdependence.
‘It takes an empire’ say several U.S. thinkers
By Emily Eakin, The New York Times, Tuesday 2 April 2002. America is no mere superpower or hegemon but a full-blown empire in the Roman and British sense. People are now coming out of the closet on the word ’empire,’; some of America's own eminent thinkers are embracing the idea. More astonishing, they are using the term with approval.