SYNOPSIS: These extraordinary times –unprecedented in modern history– are marked by a worldwide depression and regional wars involving all the major imperial powers. This book exposes the roots of the crisis in the unsustainability of the United States’ military-driven empire building based on a volatile speculative economy, and influenced by Zionist policy makers committed to... Read More

Throughout modern imperial history, ‘Divide and Conquer’ has been the essential ingredient in allowing relatively small and resource-poor European countries to conquer nations vastly larger in size and populations and richer in natural resources. This article is to be published in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.39, No.1. feb 2009 Introduction: The Historical Context It... Read More

From the middle of the 19th century but especially after the Second World War, two models of empire building competed on a world scale One predominantly based on military conquests, involving direct invasions, proxy invading armies and subsidized separatist military forces; and the other predominantly based on large-scale, long-term economic penetration via a combination of... Read More

President Bush’s visit to Uruguay, Brazil ,Colombia, Peru and Mexico reflects the ‘two tracks’ of US empire-building - military intervention and political-diplomatic instruments. Bush’s visit to Latin America at this time is an attempt to gain support from client electoral rulers at a time when he has lost the support of over 75% of US... Read More

Economic Empire building (EEB) is the driving force of the US economy and became more central over the past five years. More than ever before in US economic history, the principal US banks, oil companies, manufacturers, investment houses, pension and mutual funds all depend on exploiting overseas nations and peoples to secure high rates of... Read More

The most difficult prediction for the year 2006 is the direction and trajectory of the US economy. In 2005 the US economy defied all the known tenets of economic theory: In the face of record high trade deficits, monstrous budget deficits, a failed war and major political scandals involving presidential aides, the dollar strengthened against... Read More

It was Christmas day and while the fathers slept off a big meal and an excess of beer and rum, the children were racing around the neighborhood: The lucky ones showing off their toys, others crowding around a youngster with his own new bicycle. “Pedro! Come in and get dressed or you will miss the... Read More

The question of war and peace evokes many conflicting responses. For the ideologues and civilian militarists in Washington ?peace? can be secured with the consolidation of a world empire, which in turn implies? perpetual wars throughout the world. Introduction For the ideologues and political spokespeople of the multinational corporations, the operation of the free market... Read More

Over the past 40 years, many �socialist� and nationalist regimes attempted to combine public enterprise with private investment, including foreign investment. Introduction In the beginning, decisions were made to limit the scope of foreign investment to particular sectors and in some cases to a limited time frame via ‘fade-out formulas’ (over time the foreign shares... Read More

Paradoxically the defeat of Communism led to the relocation of imperial capital, which in turn led to a decline of domestic manufacturing and high technology industries in the ?advanced countries? Myth 1 The ?US? has a huge trade deficit with ?China? amounting to $162 billion in 2004. Reality: There are two basic problems with this... Read More

It is a well-established fact that US intelligence and state agencies have penetrated civil and political society directly or via intermediary organizations, foundations and other ostensible private groups. Introduction Penetration involves funding, influence, control and setting political agendas that serve US imperial state and business interests. US penetration is largely directed at destabilizing or pressuring... Read More

2003 was not a year of Historic Victories or Historic Defeats; it was a year of constantly shifting relations of power between imperialism and popular resistance movements. The US empire and its Israeli colonial partners were able to conquer new countries and territories but were not able to consolidate rule in the face of increased... Read More

To understand the nature and dynamics of anti-imperialist politics it is important to answer several key questions. These include: 1. What constitutes an anti-imperialist movement (AIM)? Are anti-globalization, anti-ALCA, anti-Iraq (or anti-war) movements or events anti-imperialist? 2. Under what conditions and geo-political locations do AIMs emerge and expand? 3. Which specific classes initiate and which... Read More

Here on my desk I have a 1924 atlas of the world that belonged to my grandfather, an Englishman. Its actual title is: The British Empire Universities Up-to-date Atlas-guide to the British Commonwealth of Nations and Foreign Countries. The book is divided into three sections. First, of course, are the maps, 136 pages of them.... Read More

The degeneration of Empires from Roman times to the present involves two interelated processes: (1)Massive corruption of the political class and indebtedness of its principle cities leading to social decay; (2)Overweening imperial hubris, which leads imperial publicists and politicians to engage in the most blatant justifications of imperialist wars which provoke violent resistance within and... Read More

The Bush Doctrine set out in his �U.S. National Security Strategy� speech ( September 20, 2002 ) promotes a �single sustainable model for success� - the United States through unlimited, unilateral, offensive (�pre-emptive�) wars. While couched in the language of “defense� and “liberty� the Bush doctrine is an extreme departure from the previous Truman doctrine... Read More

In the past year U.S. empire building has largely focused on military conquest, threats of regional wars and a massive enlargement of clandestine military and intelligence operations. Particularly since the war and occupation of Afghanistan, the imminent attack on Iraq and the failed military coup in Venezuela, the military track in U.S. policy has been... Read More

In the year since 9/11 the Bush Administration has been engaged in a massive, second effort to impose a New World Order which Bush\’s father attempted in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War a decade earlier. To understand the current Administration’s effort at empire building it is essential to locate it historically, particularly in... Read More

The general thesis of this article is that the U.S. attack on Afghanistan is an effort to reverse the relative decline of U.S. empire and to re-establish its domination in conflictual regions. The war in Afghanistan is only part of a general imperial counter-offensive which has several components (1) to re-establish the subordination of Europe... Read More

Empire (*) is a strange book. At a time when the U.S. is the only super power, when almost fifty percent of the 500 biggest multi-nationals are U.S. owned and headquartered, and Washington is leading a war of intervention against Afghanistan (after previous interventionary wars in the Balkans, Central America (Panama), Carribean (Grenada) and proxy... Read More

The 1990s was a decade in which the most influential writers, journalists and academics wrote, spoke and polemicized about two over-riding themes: the �globalization� of capital, and the �New Economy� (NE) based on the growth of information technology (IT), the bio-technical and telecommunications �revolution�. Introduction The expansion of capital into the ex-Communist countries, the neo-liberal... Read More