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The United States is just one of a multitude of nations on this planet and with the meltdown of the deregulated capitalist system it can be hoped that the new world order that is going to emerge from the ashes will be one where the interests of all people will be taken into account. We want an end to the exploitation of poor and rich countries. We want a world where every individual can live in dignity, to eat, have good health and get a good education. We want an end to aggressive wars under mendacious pretexts for the profit of the very few. We want a world where progress is not measured in numbers of GDP but in the quality of life of all people. We want an end to hypocrisy and narrow self-interest.
It is time for the United States to step down from its fake throne and to stop acting as the Master over all the rest of the billions of people on the earth who are treated like slaves with no rights and no voice.
Goodbye to the United States Empire and good morning to a new world of responsibility and equality.
[1] Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006 ), former professor of economics at the University of Chicago, is the economist who has the most inspired the neoliberal revolution of economics, which has become known as the Chicago School of economics. His first on-the-ground experiment, after having worked on his free-market ideas since the fifties, was in Chile where he helped stage the coup against Salvador Allende in 1973 – with the disastrous consequences that we know well. The 'Chicago boys' have, since then, 'come to the rescue' of one country after the other, always leaving the country in a more serious financial crisis than the one they were in at the beginning.
[2] Reference to George Orwell: 'The Animal Farm' (Secker and Warburg August 1945) where the pigs take over the running of the farm.
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