Abu Juwairiya
Junior Member
"The connection between instability in the Middle East and the cost of feeding a family in the
Americas isn’t direct, of course. But as with all international trade, power tilts the balance. A
leading goal of U.S. foreign policy has long been to create a global order in which U.S.
corporations have free access to markets, resources and investment opportunities. The
objective is commonly called “free trade,” a posture that collapses quickly on examination.
It’s not unlike what Britain, a predecessor in world domination, imagined during the latter part
of the nineteenth century, when it embraced limited free trade, after 150 years of state
intervention and violence had helped the nation achieve far greater industrial power than any
rival.
The United States has followed much the same pattern. Generally, great powers are willing
to enter into some limited degree of free trade when they’re convinced that the economic
interests under their protection are going to do well. That has been, and remains, a primary
feature of the international order." (Source: "Making the Future, Occupations, Interventions, Empires and Resistance" By Noam Chomsky, P 9, 2007)
Americas isn’t direct, of course. But as with all international trade, power tilts the balance. A
leading goal of U.S. foreign policy has long been to create a global order in which U.S.
corporations have free access to markets, resources and investment opportunities. The
objective is commonly called “free trade,” a posture that collapses quickly on examination.
It’s not unlike what Britain, a predecessor in world domination, imagined during the latter part
of the nineteenth century, when it embraced limited free trade, after 150 years of state
intervention and violence had helped the nation achieve far greater industrial power than any
rival.
The United States has followed much the same pattern. Generally, great powers are willing
to enter into some limited degree of free trade when they’re convinced that the economic
interests under their protection are going to do well. That has been, and remains, a primary
feature of the international order." (Source: "Making the Future, Occupations, Interventions, Empires and Resistance" By Noam Chomsky, P 9, 2007)