|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Thiago Oppermann
||
||
|| From Jornal do Brasil Online www.jbonline.terra.com.br
||
|| Old New World
||
|| Philosopher Michael Hardt, , author of ³Empire², says that the
|| USA changes
|| tactics to maintain hegemony
||
|| Alexandre Werneck
|| Dutch sociologist Saskia Sassen says that
|| the ministers
|| in charge of the global economy exert local functions, but
|| connected to a
|| global vision. She uses Davos as example of a species of
|| training camp,
|| where these ministers meet other economists and go home afterwards to
|| continue the old functions [perhaps: roles] related to their
|| own countries.
|| But they do not do this in a national theatre. The functionaries of the
|| American government are in fact managing global capital.
||
Hardt should try reading the papers instead of Dutch sociologists: The EU and NATO have spoken out against US intentions of widening the war. The EU has condemned the treatment of Taliban POW's. EU countries are constantly complaining about US unilateralism. The US is going out of its way to undermine treaties and other legal institutions devised for managing globalization. The US surplus-become-deficit is threatening global economic recovery. If the US govt is still somehow "managing global capital" despite the mayhem it's creating it must be in strange and unseen ways.
Dubya & S11 have simply blown "Empire" out of the water and it's only the left's unwillingness to part wth a shiny new theory that's postponing the death verdict.
Hakki