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Mix-Ansicht- Waiting for the next tsunami - Sorrento, 22.10.2004, 11:03
Waiting for the next tsunami
-->Both Europe and the Muslim world are facing the same tendency of a basic and underlying shift in global economic activity away from the west of the Euro/Asian/African landmass toward the countries of the Pacific. The present US government's main interest is in preserving and intensifying US global hegemony after the end of the Cold War, and maximizing access to global wealth and energy resources in a world that looks more and more like the late 19th century...
America's long-term agenda under President George W Bush is not just interested in establishing its vision in the Near East, but in the end is interested in blocking peaceful European ascent to global leadership - as envisaged by the European Union's Lisbon agenda until 2000 - at the same time. As is well known, at the Lisbon European Council (March 2000), the EU set itself a new strategic goal for the next decade: to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. The rift between Europe and the United States - especially between France, Germany and Russia on the one hand and the US on the other - has a very basic political economic background: the growing hegemonic rivalry between the world's leading capitalist blocs that have characterized world capitalism since 1450...
An imperial path for a United Europe, entering into major power conflict with the US over raw materials in Central and Western Asia, would be the last thing the world needs, although there are lots of indicators that would warn us that the leading powers in the center could follow precisely this path
<ul> ~ zum Volltext bei Asia Times</ul>
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