http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/03/the-world-is-changing-and-we-have-an-important-role-to-play/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/03/the-world-is-changing-and-we-have-an-important-role-to-play/#comment-81990 Keith Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:01:42 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=30357#comment-81990 Michel Collon wrote an excellent book on the US/NATO dismemberment of Yugoslavia called “Liars Poker” which I highly recommend. As a consequence, I was looking forward to this article to provide some real insight. Unfortunately, I found it rather conventional and disappointing. For starters, it appears to me that we have entered a period of rapid discontinuity in which there is a struggle for power between the American imperialists and the corporate/financial imperialists. China, while significant, is highly overrated, its export economy dominated by transnational corporations. Its rise in power a consequence of becoming an integral part of the global system of production and distribution upon which it has become dependent, including a dependence upon the global financial system in which it is enmeshed. America’s demise is largely a consequence of financial capital relocating to the Third World: China, India, etc. The huge budget deficits part of a process of creating indebtedness to use as a club to impose Third World structural adjustment on the US. In other words, neo-liberal globalization is proceeding apace. The popular uprisings in the Middle East are a more-or-less anticipated response to the economic injustice of neo-liberal globalization. How all of this will play out is highly uncertain. Some radical thinkers with whom I identify believe that the world is facing the gravest economic/political/environmental crisis in history.

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