Global pitbulls: the US military mission to support corporate colonialism

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2987599/global_pitbulls_the_us_military_mission_to_support_corporate_colonialism.html
Date Written:  2016-04-22
Publisher:  Ecologist
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX19318

With its 800 bases in 80 countries, the US's global military domination is often seen as an altruistic exercise to ensure world peace and harmony. It is, of course, the opposite: the essential underpinning of the US's predatory economic power, always ready to strike down any challenge to the rights and privileges of its corporate conquerors and financial oligarchy.