Selected Articles: US’ Attempt at Preserving Its Crumbling Hegemonic Status
There is no gainsaying that there has been relative peace and stability after the second World War, given the absence of another global war. Many alluded this international order to the so-called Pax Americana where American influence primarily brings peace to the world.
However, with multiple US military bases across sovereign states, relentless arms race between military powers, uncalled foreign interventions, destructive economic sanctions, to name a few, is there Pax Americana at all?
In this weekend selection, we bring to your attention some Global Research articles that talk about US foreign policy and the international order in a unipolar world.
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, October 21, 2021The Iraq war was based on a Big Lie, which was known and documented MORE THAN A MONTH before the invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003. Both the US and UK media remained mum. The US Congress and the House of Commons failed to act.
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, October 21, 2021Nicaragua’s indigenous peoples enjoy the most progressive and advanced system of autonomous self-government in the hemisphere. But reporting by the Western human rights industry, in particular by US and European NGOs claiming to defend Indigenous peoples, consistently omits that fact to focus on sporadic incidents of violence, which they systematically misrepresent.
US Marines on Taiwan: Major Provocation, but Not News
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, October 21, 2021Considering the United States’ official stance on Taiwan, its placement of US forces on Taiwan is essentially a de facto invasion and occupation of Chinese territory. Beijing surely reads Taiwanese as well as Western headlines – if its intelligence apparatus was somehow unaware of last year’s US military deployment – and despite the highly provocative, unprecedented move, Beijing’s response has been infinite patience and geopolitical maturity.
Why Not Abandon All Foreign Bases?
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, October 21, 2021The U.S. global empire of bases and troops is unnecessary to the defense of the United States, a global force for evil, and a drain on U.S. taxpayers. Its only purpose is to carry out an imperialistic, militaristic, reckless, belligerent, and meddling U.S. foreign policy that is not in the interest of the American people.
House Intelligence Committee Seeks Answers from CIA on Plot Against Assange
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, October 21, 2021The CIA plot against Assange was discussed at senior levels of the Trump administration and was instigated by Trump’s CIA chief Mike Pompeo, Yahoo! reported. Schiff was a bitter foe of Donald Trump. The Yahoo! reporting mentions that discussions about covert action against Assange had already been discussed in the Obama administration, presumably by Obama’s CIA director John Brennan.
Blinken: US Policy Is to ‘Oppose the Reconstruction of Syria’
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, October 14, 2021At a joint press conference with his Israeli and UAE counterparts, Blinken said the US has not “changed our position to oppose the reconstruction of Syria until there is irreversible progress toward a political solution.”
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, October 09, 2021The plenary session of the NATO Military Committee ended with a briefing with Georgia. The Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer and the Commander of the Georgian Defense Forces, Major General Giorgi Matiashvili summarized the issues discussed at the session.
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, October 07, 2021The legal argument used by Washington and NATO to invade Afghanistan was that the September 11 attacks constituted an undeclared “armed attack” “from abroad” by an unnamed foreign power, and that consequently “the laws of war” apply, allowing the nation under attack, to strike back in the name of “self-defense”.
The Living Dead Pax Americana. War Inc. Rules. Cold War 2.0 against China
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, September 30, 2021Every major player knows the next American war will not be about remote Pacific islands. Taiwan, though, is a completely different ball game. U SUK A is mostly about Taiwan.
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, September 26, 2021The former ambassador of Canada in Belgrade, James Bissett, spoke sharply about the NATO aggression on the then FR Yugoslavia in 1999 and most directly accused the then world leadership. The Canadian diplomat stated that the bombing of Serbia in 1999 was a historic mistake.