The United States has been pursuing an audacious project to fashion a global system according to its specifications and under its tutelage since the Cold War’s end. For a quarter of a century, the paramount goal of all its foreign relations has been the fostering of a system whose architectural design features the following: a neo-liberal economic order wherein markets dictate economic outcomes and the influence of public authorities to regulate them is weakened; this entails a progressive financializing of the world economy which concentrates the levers of greatest power in a few Western institutions — private, national and supranational; …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
