Hook's announcement is an important reminder that the Islamic Republic is fundamentally opposed to American interests and Western values. Indeed, anti-American sentiment is a core tenet of the ruling Islamist theocracy. ..…

Soviet Union could not move against Western nations while they were protected under American umbrella. ..…

The Roosevelt Corollary of 1904 amended the Monroe Doctrine, making it clear that the United States believed it had a right to interfere in any country in the western Hemisphere to maintain good order, which inevitably led to exploitation of Latin American nations by US business..…

From the perspective of western Europeans, NATO's underlying rationale was expressed by Lord Ismay, its first secretary general to keep Russians out, Americans and Germans down... By the 1970s there was no longer any pretence that the defence of western Europe against Red Army..…

“The institutional framework of a world government composed of Western European and American states remains far more potent than we like to imagine,” the Salon writer observes, citing free trade agreements under which “U.S. courts have been subordinated to international tribunals,..…