Who Rules the World?

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A wealth of knowledge. But like most other Chomsky books, very dry and sometimes even hard to follow. The European Union (EU), one of the more promising developments of the post-world war II period, has been tottering because of the harsh effect of the policies of austerity during recession, condemned even by the economists of the International Monetary Fund (if not the IMF’s political actors). Contrary to the eloquent pronouncements, it is not the case that “terrorism is terrorism. There’s no two ways about it.” There definitely are two ways about it: theirs versus ours. And not just when it comes to terrorism.”

Some analysts believe that the new bank might turn out to be a competitor to the Bretton Woods institutions (the IMF and the World Bank), in which the United States holds veto power. There are also some expectations that the SCO might eventually become a counterpart to Nato. The challenges today: eastern Europe Horrifying. Whether you're inclined to believe the author's (Noam Chomsky) analysis or the views of those he opposes, I doubt anyone can read unmoved this rollcall of suffering. So much violence, so many deaths. It does demand an answer: what motivates us as societies and individuals to commit and/or tolerate the abuse of people present and future, and of the environment that sustains us? Aunque la doctrina del Área Grande todavía es la predominante, la capacidad de ponerla en marcha se ha reducido. Estados Unidos alcanzó la cumbre de su poder después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando poseía, literalmente, la mitad de la riqueza del mundo. Pero esa proporción descendió cuando otras economías industriales se recuperaron de la devastación de la guerra y la descolonización tomó su doloroso rumbo. A principios de la década de 1970, la porción estadounidense de la riqueza global había descendido a alrededor del 25 % y el mundo industrial se había vuelto tripolar: Norteamérica, Europa y Asia oriental (que entonces giraba en torno a Japón). Hubo”

Chomsky, Noam, Optimism Over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change (London: Penguin Press, 2017) The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the sphere of suffering shared, and in this case extended to the death march itself, there is no spiritual or emotional legacy here to offset any reader reluctance. Chomsky doesn’t mention any of this. History did not stop with US crimes in Iraq. Nor in an increasingly multipolar world can the United States control everything. With the “Orange Revolution” victory of pro-western candidates in Ukraine in 2004, State Department representative Daniel Fried rushed there and “emphasized US support for Ukraine’s Nato and Euro-Atlantic aspirations”, as a WikiLeaks report revealed. As in the case of China, one does not have to regard Putin’s moves favorably to understand the logic behind them

Y además percibo que a la mayoría de la gente le gusta emular a los ricos y por tanto vivimos queriendo ser quien no somos y no podemos ser.Si bien Estados Unidos puede tolerar la desobediencia de Turquía —aunque con disgusto—, China es más difícil de pasar por alto. La prensa advierte que «los inversores y comerciantes de China están ahora llenando un vacío en Irán en un momento en el que empresas de otras muchas naciones, sobre todo de Europa, se retiran» y, en particular, que China está expandiendo su papel dominante en las industrias de energía de Irán.19 Washington está reaccionando con un punto de desesperación. El Departamento de Estado advirtió a China que si quiere ser aceptada en la «comunidad internacional» —un término técnico para referirse a Estados Unidos y quien esté de acuerdo con él— no debe «esquivar y evadir las responsabilidades internacionales, [que] son claras», a saber: seguir las órdenes de Estados Unidos.20 Es poco probable que eso impresione mucho a China. También” US has been at the peak of power after World War II but since 1970's, the US share of global wealth have fallen by 25% and industrial world have become tripolar: North America, Europe and East Asia. Though US still remains the most powerful state in the world, global power is continuing to diversify hence US is increasingly unable to impose its will. The west sees Nato enlargement as benign. Not surprisingly, Russia, along with much of the Global South, has a different opinion, as do some prominent western voices. George Kennan warned early on that Nato enlargement is a “tragic mistake”, and he was joined by senior American statesmen in an open letter to the White House describing it as a “policy error of historic proportions”.