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ZMAG: Dominance and its Dilemmas by Noam Chomsky

By The past year has been a momentous one in world affairs. In the
normal rhythm, the pattern was set in September, a month marked by several
important and closely related events. The most powerful state in
history announced a new National Security Strategy asserting that it will
maintain global hegemony permanently: any challenge will be blocked by force,
the dimension in which the US reigns supreme. At the same time, the war
drums began to beat to mobilize the population for an invasion of Iraq, which
would be "the first test [of the doctrine], not the last," the New York
Times observed after the invasion, "the petri dish in which this
experiment in pre-emptive policy grew." And the campaign opened for the mid-term
congressional elections, which would determine whether the
administration would be able to carry forward its radical international and domestic
agenda.

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