The footnotes are great because they show concrete examples of each strategy.
That there is a good ass post. Interesting that it takes the time to address the idea of the "petrodollar", i'd never seen anyone argue against that
Even if it was mostly stuff I already knew, seeing it all laid out like that really is something.
This website has an article on Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission stuff which raises red flags for me https://swprs.org/the-american-empire-and-its-media/
Bilderbergers, Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations are quite real. Why would they raise red flags? You realize you're having that reaction because the CIA literally founded a psy-op to create the term "conspiracy theorist" to discredit people? No, really, they actually did. That's not a conspiracy theory.
If you despise the US empire, read this glowing piece about how CFR thinks it's great . This isn't some crazy conspiracy theory; it appeared in the pages of Foreign Policy.
Ever since the United States emerged as a great power, the identification of the interests of others with its own has been the most striking quality of American foreign and defense policy. Americans seem to have internalized and made second nature a conviction held only since World War II: Namely, that their own well-being depends fundamentally on the well-being of others; that American prosperity cannot occur in the absence of global prosperity; that American freedom depends on the survival and spread of freedom elsewhere; that aggression anywhere threatens the danger of aggression everywhere; and that American national security is impossible without a broad measure of international security.
There you go, a justification of the war machine and megadeaths. I love how at the beginning it goes on about how everyone was aghast that the fact that Bill Clinton is a rapist might have interfered. Shush that lying woman up, the thinking went.
No, I have that reaction because CFR/Trilateral/Bilderberg are popular talking points with people who don’t understand that much of what we call “conspiracy theory” is the bourgeoisie showing class solidarity.
I am aware those organizations exist; I read CFR’s Foreign Relations and listen to their podcast often.
I believe you are referring to CIA document
1080-501035-960 on the Kennedy Assassination, which I tried looking up via FOIA and didn’t find that quote that people attribute it with. If you can throw me a source I’d appreciate it.
This website has a bunch of views on COVID
https://swprs.org/covid-vaccines-a-reality-check/
In the linked article they have videos of "Vaccine Injuries" which is this video here https://videopress.com/v/DqM4nXEo
Is this like the world socialist website?
This website is basically 'the U.S. creates imperial hegemony for the sake of creating imperial hegemony', yes ok, but what is the end goal of that hegemony? There is some circular logic going on here. While it's good to see the specifics laid out, to claim that capitalism isn't the end point here creates a fundamental disconnect between the human actors and the government as an entity. The hegemony is run by and for capitalists to maintain their control over labor.
All the treats, and trade, and raw materials are part of keeping the ball rolling and the most important part of that is that people go to work. Not all the people, cause we want to make sure there is a labor reserve to drive down costs. But most of them. Of course this creates a problem of who will consume those products, etc. etc. You gotta keep the ball rolling.
