Stephen Gowans lays out the imperialist thinking that defines the United States Empire âAspiring to Rule the World.â He shows the class content of US foreign policy with billionaires, esp. those on the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) ruling all that is to be ruled -- controlling political positions, political wars, political media and, thereby, political âthinkingâ of the masses, who too commonly buy into the deception.
Gowans points to the irony of the US claiming it must intervene in the Middle East to preserve security of oil supply to US that helps the US people maintain a standard of living. But, as he states, the US has never been reliant much on Persian Gulf oil.
Gowans relates this âthinkingâ to the current war against Syria and shows why Syria fails the US hegemony test: 1) Syrian government, rather than moneyed interests, plays a significant role in the economy and (2) Syria is the last bastion of an Arab nationalism that rejects the idea of US economic domination of the Arab heartland.
Aspiring to Rule the World: US Capital and the Battle for Syria
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