Ten Years After

Ten years after the 1991 coup that finalized the demise of the Soviet Union, the events of September 11, 2001 handed the US ruling class an unequalled opportunity to consummate a long sought imperial ambition at the planetary scale. Clearly within grasp lay a new global unilateralism centered squarely on the US. Washington and Wall Street responded. The subsequent “National Security Strategy of the United States” recognized all too well this amalgam of power and aspiration.

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Neil Smith – Ten Years After