Excellent from Paul Rogers of @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social writing for @opendemocracy.net, on echoes with the PNAC "the post-9/11 conflicts, which PNAC was instrumental in orchestrating, has led to over four million people being killed". #US-Hegemony www.opendemocracy.net/en/trump-tar...

Trump’s tariffs are similar to...

#YanisVaroufakis: "Many refer to this world — the one in which #GenX grew up — as the #neoliberal era, others associate it with #globalisation, some identify it with #financialisation. It’s all the same thing — the world the #NixonShock begat and which the 2008 financial crash shook to its foundations. After the 2009 bailouts, although US hegemony continued unabated, it lost much of its dynamism. Today, the Nixon Shock has run out of steam — at least from the perspective of the Trumpists who want to give #UShegemony a second (or is it a third?) wind. This is the whole point of the #TrumpShock and its masterplan, including tactical moves such as enlisting #crypto to their cause."

https://unherd.com/2025/04/will-liberation-day-transform-the-world/

From 2017...
#SlowCollapse #UShegemony

Pentagon Study Declares American Empire Is 'Collapsing'
'Report demands massive expansion of military-industrial complex to maintain global "access to resources." "The solution proposed to protect US power in this new “post-primacy” environment is, however, more of the same: more surveillance, more propaganda (“strategic manipulation of perceptions”) and more military expansionism.'
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/pentagon-study-declares-american-empire-is-collapsing-746754cdaebf

#China
#USHegemony
#uspolitics

On the real reason why the US is trying to scaremonger the entire world into thinking that China is a world threat.

The only world threat is the US foreign policy of intervention, sanctions, forced regime changes, coups.

China's dominance is commercial. Their economy is larger than the US. China has a policy of non-intervention is other states' internal affairs. Their interest is commerce and development, a win win situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRpe7W4vxHY

As the news unfolded on Wednesday morning, I was struck that Chancellor Scholz's first public comment was 'a message posted on X'. The same was true for many other world leaders.

And that epitomises the problem. #X is a platform owned by one highly partisan billionaire and run for their interests. It needs people to sign up to read messages. News sites can't even embed them any more.

How can a state resist #USHegemony if it can't even claim sovereignty over official communications?

Unpopular, but Necessary Nuance: China, U.S. Hegemony, and the Exploitation of Uyghurs and Other Minorities

https://theleftindependent.substack.com/p/unpopular-but-necessary-nuance-china

Unpopular, but Necessary Nuance: China, U.S. Hegemony, and the Exploitation of Uyghurs and Other Minorities

https://theleftindependent.substack.com/p/unpopular-but-necessary-nuance-china

#US #War on #China is a War on the Entire World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHYSkm9Jl-g

#US #War on #China is a War on the Entire World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHYSkm9Jl-g

#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #oas / #carribean / #centralamerica / #southamerica / #ushegemony / # #usforeignpolicy

„The Organization of American States’ pro-Israel stance may erode its legitimacy in the region.“
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/12/israel-palestine-gaza-war-oas-latin-america-almagro-us-far-right/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obzLl82cnrM&list=PLneypbodq-jYq9a6Y8BjobC6KJOIBLCZB&index=4&pp=iAQB

#DemocracyNow

#BananasAndBlood: #Chiquita Ordered to Pay #Colombian Families $38Million for Backing #DeathSquads

Photo of the Day

hard lessons

In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt which overthrew the Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista.

Castro quickly aligned with the Soviet Union, seized American and foreign-owned assets, and declared himself a Communist.

Alarmed, the Eisenhower Administration approved a plan devised by the CIA in 1960 to train Cuban exiles to infiltrate Cuba and start a revolution.

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-459?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

End of US hegemony? It can't come soon enough

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4671482-as-american-global-hegemony-ends-multi-alignment-rises/
#US #USHegemony #NewWorldOrder

Those NGOs that are so afraid that their funding may become public knowledge. Here is an interesting take on the NGO system and the UN from Craig Murray.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/03/assange-truth-and-un-shenanigans/
#Georgia #USHegemony #USDominance #UN

By actively trying to get involved in the South China Sea affairs, Washington aims to hinder China's development and strength, said Bambang Suryono, president of the Jakarta-based think tank Nanyang ASEAN Foundation. #UShegemony

The territorial disputes in the South China Sea should only be resolved through mutual consultation among the countries involved in Southeast Asia and China, said Veronika Saraswati, senior researcher at the Center for Strategic and Int'l Studies. #UShegemony

The U.S. not only attempts "to position its military assets close to the Chinese territory, but also aims to exacerbate maritime disputes in the region," said Thong Mengdavid, a lecturer at the Institute for Int'l Studies & Public Policy. #UShegemony

The U.S. is rushing to interfere in the principle of ASEAN by deploying missiles in the Philippines, said Seun Sam, a policy analyst at the Royal Academy of Cambodia, adding that both countries are "very wrong" since they breach the ASEAN Charter for own benefits. #UShegemony

The U.S. deployment of medium-range ballistic missiles in the Philippines posed a serious threat and danger to the peace and stability in the region, warned Joseph Matthews, a senior professor at the BELTEI International University in Phnom Penh. #UShegemony

THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!!

"The trick is to use economics to build a world political structure"

#jacobin #economics #globalization #UShegemony

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7AFY2ifZ5C4