{"id":9873,"date":"2015-07-09T08:22:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T13:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9873"},"modified":"2015-07-09T08:22:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T13:22:42","slug":"the-anglo-american-empire-is-preparing-for-resource-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9873","title":{"rendered":"The Anglo-American empire is preparing for resource war"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anglo-American empire is preparing for resource war <\/a><\/span>\"\"<\/h3>\n
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The control of resources remains a core factor in US considerations for sustaining global US hegemony in the face of rising geopolitical influence of its major rivals<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Last week, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff\u00a0released<\/a>\u00a0the new National Military Strategy of the United States of America, 2015.<\/p>\n

The report\u2019s main theme is that \u201cglobalisation\u201d and \u201cdemographics\u201d are pushing forward trends that are undermining US military superiority, including its capability to sustain \u201cinternational order\u201d. It sets out how the US military intends to keep ahead of those trends.<\/p>\n

Although imbued with flowery technocratic language, when read closely in the context of recent history, the document is ultimately a blueprint to shore-up a dying empire, and reveals much about the reigning ideology of US military supremacism.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe United States is the world\u2019s strongest nation, enjoying unique advantages in technology, energy, alliances and partnerships, and demographics,\u201d the document observes. \u201cHowever, these advantages are being challenged.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report notes that globalisation is catalysing \u201ceconomic development\u201d while simultaneously \u201cincreasing societal tensions, competition for resources, and political instability\u201d.<\/p>\n

Of course, the strategy document\u00a0does not mention<\/a>\u00a0that since 1980, under the age of neoliberal globalisation, even as GDP per head has risen, the \u201cvast majority of countries\u201d have experienced a \u201csharp increase in income inequality,\u201d as documented by a flagship 2014 report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).<\/p>\n

In the wake of the new era of slow growth and brutal austerity ushered in after the 2008 global banking collapse, the risk of the dire economic climate sparking civil and political unrest is increasing. But what the document also misses is that growing risk is itself a symptom of the uneven \u201ceconomic development\u201d that constitutes GDP \u201cgrowth\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

– See more at: http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/columns\/anglo-american-empire-preparing-resource-war-1170119289#sthash.zPz1ELd2.dpuf<\/span><\/p>\n

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