Quite the opposite, successive American administrations would blindly head down the very path that had led the Soviets to ruin. They would serially agree that, in a world without significant enemies, the key to U.S. global power still was the care and feeding of the American military and the military-industrial complex that went with it. As the years passed, that military would be sent ever more regularly into the far reaches of the planet to fight frontier wars, establish military bases, and finally impose a global Pax Americana on the planet. This urge, delusional in retrospect, seemed to reach its ultimate expression in the second Bush administration, whose infamous "unilateralism" rested on a belief that no country or even bloc of countries should ever again be allowed to come close to matching U.S. military power.

Fuente: Le Monde diplomatique Traducción: Caty R., Rebelión por Alain Gresh En enero de 1842 el ejército británico abandonó Kabul; de los 16.000 soldados y civiles que intentaron dejar el reino, sólo un puñado llegó a salvo a la India. El 15 de febrero de 1989 los últimos soldados del Ejército Rojo cruzaron el puente de la Amistad [...]

Artículo publicado en Amauta con permiso de Rebelión Fuente: Rebelión por Marta Harnecker 24 de febrero, 2010 1. No hay protagonismo popular sin descentralización El protagonismo popular se transforma en una mera consigna si la gente no tiene la posibilidad de pronunciarse y tomar decisiones en los espacios donde participa (espacios territoriales, centros de trabajo, centro de estudio, grupos de [...]

Fuente: Aporrea por Javier Biardeau R. 4 de enero, 2010 Las revoluciones democráticas y socialistas se definen por la participación de las multitudes, por el empoderamiento popular, por el protagonismo de las mayorías en las decisiones fundamentales que permiten superar las condiciones de explotación, coerción, hegemonía, exclusión y negación cultural. Una revolución democrática y socialista se desnaturaliza y [...]

by Dahr Jamail September 17, 2009 On September 7 the Swedish aid agency Swedish Committee for Afghanistan reported that the previous week US soldiers raided one of its hospitals. According to the director of the aid agency, Anders Fange, troops stormed through both the men’s and women’s wards, where they frantically searched for wounded Taliban fighters. Soldiers demanded [...]

by Daniel Ellsberg September 10, 2009 Editor’s note (from Truthdig): This is the first installment of Daniel Ellsberg’s personal memoir of the nuclear era, “The American Doomsday Machine.” The online book will recount highlights of his six years of research and consulting for the Departments of Defense and State and the White House on issues of nuclear [...]

by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Sep 3 (IPS) – In support of the official U.S. assertion that Iran is arming its sworn enemy, the Taliban, the head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Dennis Blair, has cited a statement by a Taliban commander last year attributing military success against NATO forces to Iranian [...]

And Ten Steps to Take to Do So by Chalmers Johnson July 30, 2009 However ambitious President Barack Obama’s domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with [...]

Por Jorge Gómez Barata 28 de mayo, 2009 El Estado no fue inventado por algún villano ni se originó por aberraciones históricas. Se trata de un fruto de la cultura que con otros elementos de la civilización evidencia la primacía del hombre sobre las circunstancias y de la conciencia sobre la espontaneidad. Esa invención en el ámbito [...]