Monday, December 1, 2014

Mike Whitney — Defending Dollar Imperialism


More on geopolitics and geostrategy.

Counterpunch
Defending Dollar Imperialism
Mike Whitney

See also Zbigniew Brzezinski, "A Strategy for Eurasia," at Foreign Affairs (Sep-Oct 1997 issue), reposted at Bill Totten's Weblog here.


2 comments:

Dan Lynch said...

Whitney at his best.

Two months after Assad signed the [pipeline] deal with Iraq and Iran, the rebellion broke out in Syria. That’s quite a coincidence, don’t you think? Funny how frequently those kinds of things happen when foreign leaders don’t march to Washington’s tune.

But Whitney loses me at the end when he claims it's all about the dollar's reserve status. Meh, it's about controlling the world, because that's what psychopaths do.

Matt Franko said...

"As long as Washington can control the world’s energy supplies and force the world to trade in dollars, it can spend well in excess of what it produces and not be held to account. It’s like having a credit card you never have to pay off."

Ha Whitney is a member of the Debt Doomsday crowd!