Endgame of the Long Cold War

... advocate armed intervention in the Middle East should U.S. oil requirements so demand.” (Fidel Castro, Algiers NAM Summit, September 1973). What we see today is the working out of Fidel’s prediction, deriving from his grasp of the theory and historical practice of imperialism as a world-system: how it would return to its original predatory character in the intertwined and interactive economic and military realms; revive its habit of carving and re-carving out the world through military means, without the restraining ...