United States unilaterialism & judicial immunity
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- Why the U.S. is seen as ‘the capital of
global arrogance’
- By Ali Azad, Workers World, 19 March
1998. Thomas Friedman:
[You] can't understand [the
Iraq crisis] without reference to some more modern political
trends—namely U.S. hegemony after the Cold War and
globalization.
Friedman on obstacles facing U.S. global
domination.
- U.S. bombs scared Russia
- By Pavel Felgenhauer, Moscow Times, 27 August
1998. Yeltsin denounced the bombing of alleged terrorist
targets in Sudan and Afghanistan by the U.S. He said
his
attitude is negative as it would be to any act of terrorism,
military interference or failure to solve a problem through
talks.
- Time we question America's
adventurism
- By Steven Greenhut, commentary, The Houston
Chronicle, Sunday 26 September 1999. Yet as America
embraces the policies of an empire, defiantly rejecting the
founders' warnings about the dangers of international
adventurism, the American people need to focus their
attention on the moral foundations of the policy of endless
militarism.
- Berlin Wall 10 years on
- Mainichi Shimbun, Tuesday 9 November
1999. Since the fall of the Wall, a unipolar world dominated
by the U.S., which exerted its dominance in a range of
conflicts, diminishing the stature of the U.N. Also
globalization has increased the tendency toward unipolairyt
in the political and the economic spheres. Winning the Cold
War could mean that the world will be a less forgiving place
for the unfortunate.
- Fascism today is not just skinheads and an
Austrian political thug; There is also a geopolitical fascism, led
by the US
- By John Pilger, New Statesman (London), 5
Feburary 2001. Geopolitical fascism overseen by the U.S.,
assisted by Britain: Vietnam, Indonesia, Chile, Nicaragua,
El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Palestine, Turkey and
Colombia. Remembering them is as important as remembering
the Holocaust. Globalisation, the advance of rapacious
capital, is another phase, with a new militarism known as
humanitarian intervention
.
- Bush's Hit List At the United
Nations
- By Ian Williams, Foreign Policy in Focus, 9
May 2002. The U.S. administration has begun a long march
through multilateral institutions. At the UN and elsewhere,
the U.S. has mounted a campaign to purge international civil
servants judged to be out of step with Washington in the war
on terrorism and its insistence that the U.S. have the last
word in all global governance issues.