"What may prove to be the last rites of American hegemony..."
thus opens the latest installment of hudson's baying bric hounds of doom
now playing over at counter punch

hudson's bric hounds ?? why brazil russia india and china the new order quartet

the up shot ???

you call it how ever you desire but ...my take
just mr hudson's fuckin usual happy hour shot of anti empire pwog-booze
....uncle's days as hegemon are numbered sez hud

--btw hud here started his particular uncle's final count down in.... 1972
...a long count to end all long counts eh ??--

since its just the same old same old floatin' crap game i'll skip salty mike's rendering of the latest enstallment ..
letting this suffice...hudson's mission summary:
".. agenda -- nothing less than the replacement of the global dollar standard
with a new financial and military defense system."

and yet as MH notes this gathering of the grand anti yank posse
"..has elicited only a collective yawn from the US and even European press "
imagine that ...the complacent fools why ...attila is practically at the gates

i'll go once more around the robin's nest for those well intended guilabillys out there

part I :

" replacement of the global dollar standard with a new financial ... system."

the dollar is imperial because because becacause of just one single because:
if it's to be a trans nat's limited liability world
them our uncle's dollar works fine for now

hey isn't it prolly easier to guide washingtton
then some open UN sponsored global monetary authority in ZURICH ??

world money or its essential homunculus
a supra national world --C-bank only-- reserve currency
adds nothing
border transgressing corporations can imagine they want
that uncle lucky dollar can't provide em already ..
t'is the old known quantity gimmick operates here ..right ??

as to part II " a new ... military defense system."

IE ending the nato gang's
7 seas romp license

yikes!!

errr.. unless you're bloody excited by the actual real life implications of this line
which is these feeble gestures of difiance might possibly
pre figure a distant and inevitable GREAT WAR III
--which i submit can be seen as always almost any where
and no where all at once --
in other words if we are to keep to the type of anti uncle samson empire happy talk mike likes to talk
then we might as well talk about a world army while we're at it eh?
like folks offered up seriously after the first Great War ...
okay so that meme de jour
didn't exactly turn into a global wild fire like charlie chaplin and mary pickford ...alas
and to think even after four years of utterly senseless intra big power slaughter
even then we didn't get an earth wide consolidated supranational army to preserve international peace
for ever plus one day ...
no not in 1919 nope ...we got the spanish flu instead