Articles by Mike Whitney – CounterPunch
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The Broken Chessboard: Zbigniew Brzezinski Gives Up on Empire
Mike Whitney – CounterPunch,
5 Sep 2016
25 Aug 2016 – Brzezinski, who was the main proponent of the US hegemony idea and who drew up the blueprint for imperial expansion in his 1997 book, has done an about-face and called for a revising of the strategy: “As its era of global dominance ends, the United States is no longer the globally imperial power.”
→ read full articleIronman Varoufakis’s Revolutionary Plan for Europe
Mike Whitney – CounterPunch,
23 Feb 2015
The ongoing dispute between the German and Greek governments is nothing less than a democratic revolution against German hegemony and the attempt of the Germans and their paladins in the EU to dictate Greek domestic policy.” Varoufakis’s plan in a nutshell: Revolution from within. Just don’t tell anyone in Berlin.
→ read full articleDoes the Name “Strauss-Kahn” Ring a Bell? – Trotsky at the IMF
Mike Whitney – CounterPunch,
1 Dec 2014
Let’s face it; Strauss-Kahn was headed in a direction that wasn’t compatible with the interests of the cutthroats who run the IMF. That much is clear. Now whether these same guys concocted the goofy “honey trap” at the Sofitel Hotel, we may never know.
→ read full articleThe University of Al-Qaeda? America’s “Terrorist Academy” in Iraq Produced ISIS Leaders
Mike Whitney – CounterPunch,
13 Oct 2014
“Since 2003, Anglo-American power has secretly and openly coordinated direct and indirect support for Islamist terrorist groups linked to al-Qaeda across the Middle East and North Africa. This ill-conceived patchwork geostrategy is a legacy of the persistent influence of neoconservative ideology, motivated by longstanding but often contradictory ambitions to dominate regional oil resources, defend an expansionist Israel, and in pursuit of these, re-draw the map of the Middle East.”
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