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The Unholy Trinity of Defense, Diplomacy and Development in the War on Terror: A report investigating the question of how the U.S. has prioritised it's political and military agenda over the needs of the poor around the globe, and how it's responsibility with foreign needs to change.

The US military has followed two principles - direct military invasions and fomenting separatist movements, with the 'right to self-determination' for separatist regimes used as a pretext to extend the American empire.

It’s time to leave behind old ideas of superpowers. A changing world brings new opportunities for peace and the chance to join a community of nations.

The following keynote address by Chris Hedges was given on May 28 in Furman University as part of the protests by faculty and students over the South Carolina college’s decision to invite George W. Bush to give the May 31 commencement address.

As the world focuses attention on the next U.S. government, the real question is what comes next after corporate globalization and imperial power in the post-Bush era

Global confidence in the US economy has reached zero, as was proved by last month’s stock market meltdown. But there is an enormous anomaly in the US economy above and beyond the subprime mortgage crisis, the housing bubble and the prospect of recession: 60 years of misallocation of resources, and borrowings, to the establishment and maintenance of a military-industrial complex as the basis of the nation’s economic life.

With an occupying army waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan, with military bases and corporate bullying in every part of the world, there is hardly a question any more of the existence of an American Empire. Indeed, the once fervent denials have turned into a boastful, unashamed embrace of the idea.