Samir Amin interview

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

What is the significance of this U.S.-led war against Iraq?

Samir Amin: This war is not just against Iraq, not even just against the
Arab peoples, or against the people of the region. It is also not a war
against Muslims. It is a war against mankind. It is one of a long series
of U.S.-planned wars, part of an overall criminal project. This project
seeks to establish U.S. military control over the whole planet. This
project, and the philosophy that sustains it, developed some years ago,
even before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It dates back to the 1980s, when
the ideology of neo-liberalism attained supremacy, symbolised by the rise
of Thatcherism in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the U.S. At the same time,
the power of the Soviet Union was declining. The neo-liberal plan, to
assume control on a planetary scale, was at that time written by people
like Zbignew Brezinski. They said that after the fall of the Soviet Union,
the U.S. would be the sole and unique hegemonic power. This plan gave
itself about 20 years to establish total control over the rest of the
world. The idea was to prevent any other country or society - particularly
the major countries - from becoming independent actors in the global
system.

full: http://www.flonnet.com/fl2008/stories/20030425005812800.htm


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