US Foreign Policy.

[JoeyNormal]

"The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. " - Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General

I consider post-isolationist American foreign policy to be clearly neo-colonialist.

"Imperialism today is taking place in the context of...the 'universalization' of capitalism. It is not now primarily a matter of territorial conquest or direct military or colonial control. It is not now a matter of capitalist powers invading non-capitalist powers in order to bleed them dry directly and by brute force. Now it is more a matter of ensuring that the forces of the capitalist market prevail in every corner of the world (even if this means marginalizing and impoverishing parts of it), and of manipulating those market forces to the advantage of the most powerful capitalist economies and the United States in particular....Military force is still central to the imperialist project, in some ways more than ever." - Ellen Meiksins-Wood, Z magazine

Neo-colonialism is distinct from classical imperialistic drives in it operates primarily in the social and economic spheres. The government does not directly acquire direct control over foreign territories, rather it assimilates foreign cultures and economies as subservient "clones". We see the social side of this is the globalisation of Amerixcan music and film, and the economic in the Third World sweatshopping, primarily in the barbaric "Export Processing Zones"; WTO created areas where no national labour laws apply.

I consider the US government to be supporting this neo-colonial drive - led in the corporate sector - via the usuage of non-governmental organizations such as the UN and WTO (believe it or not, many people outside of the US consider these groups American puppets), and, most abhorrently through the use of direct military invention.

"Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America. Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear, that another hand may be extended to wield our weapons, and that other men be ready to intone our funeral dirge with the staccato singing of the machine guns and new battle cries of war and victory." - Che Guevara, Message to the Tricontinental.

"How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world]." - Ramsey Clark

[Manu]

Neo-colonialism IS basically what we're about...

Look how many troops we have stationed 'permanently' overseas?

Look at the countries we look to engage...and the ones we don't? Look where our troops are stationed? Look at our middle east involvement?