{"id":54790,"date":"2015-03-09T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=54790"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:26:00","slug":"fifty-years-of-imperial-wars-results-and-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/03\/fifty-years-of-imperial-wars-results-and-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Years of Imperial Wars: Results and Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 Mar 2015 &#8211; <em>Over the past 50 years the US and European powers have engaged in countless imperial wars throughout the world. The drive for world supremacy has been clothed in the rhetoric of \u201cworld leadership\u201d, the consequences have been devastating for the peoples targeted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The biggest, longest and most numerous wars have been carried out by the United States. Presidents from both parties direct and preside over this quest for world power. The ideology which informs imperialism varies from \u201canti-communism\u201din the past to \u201canti-terrorism\u201dtoday. Washington\u2019s drive for world domination has used and combined many forms of warfare, including military invasions and occupations; proxy mercenary armies and military coups; financing political parties, NGO\u2019s and street mobs to overthrow duly constituted governments. The driving forces in the imperial state , behind the quest for world power, vary with the geographic location and social economic composition of the targeted countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/b2-img\/petras_fifty_years_of_imperial_wars.pdf\" >Read essay [PDF]<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/analysis-Fifty-Years-of-Imperial-Wars-Results-and-Perspectives.pdf\" >Fifty Years of Imperial Wars- Results and Perspectives<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>___________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of more than 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 600 articles in professional journals. He has a long history of commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, La Jornada, and previously, for the Spanish daily, El Mundo. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/?p=2022\" >Go to Original \u2013 petras-lahaine.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Mar 2015 &#8211; Over the past 50 years the US and European powers have engaged in countless imperial wars throughout the world. The drive for world supremacy has been clothed in the rhetoric of \u201cworld leadership\u201d, the consequences have been devastating for the peoples targeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}