Friday, April 4, 2014

Pepe Escobar — The Empire of Chaos

We should never forget the Big Picture; as with the NSA Orwellian-panopticon complex, this is most of all about the application of the Pentagon’s Full Spectrum Dominance doctrine, which implies encirclement of Russia (via NATO), coupled with the pivot-style encirclement of China. And the overarching logic remains the same; this is The Empire of Chaos in action.
Counterpunch
The Empire of Chaos
Pepe Escobar

3 comments:

Bob Roddis said...

It's such a marvelous thing that the fascist state is not revenue constrained, isn't it?

Jose Guilherme said...

Usually, the only constraint on a powerful state is another equally powerful state.

There's no such constraint on the U.S. today.

Tom Hickey said...

I don't think it's about constraint but control. The US and its Western allies, in particular the UK, want completely control over the process of neoliberal globalization that will put them in charge political and economically "forever."

The perceived danger is an alliance opposed to US and Western control, such as Russia dominating its sphere of influence and China dominating its sphere of influence allied with Iran and India. And China is already moving into Latin America and Africa economically.

So the US is attempting to integrate the world economically under neoliberal globalization while trying to isolate potential rivals politically and encircle them militarily.

The two processes are antithetical.