By examining many independent historical resources including declassified US government documents, this researcher provides us with the intellectual tools to understand the hegemonic thinking of US Empire directors during the post-war launching of their global empire project. Today we don't have access to current government documents because they are classified, however we can extrapolate from documents from this earlier period what informs the thinking of today's Empire directors as they continue their hegemonic policies to secure their ruling class's access to resources, cheap labor, and markets.
This is no less true today than it was when Nasser was in power. Perhaps the most important quote regarding the spread of Arab Nationalism in the 1950s - from the perspective of American imperial strategists - was when the NSC declared in 1958 that the United States should "seek to guide the revolutionary and nationalistic pressures throughout the area into orderly channels which will not be antagonistic to the West and which will contribute to solving the internal social, political and economic problems of the area." Indeed, one could imagine such a statement appearing almost verbatim in the internal documents of the Obama administration related to Egypt's ongoing revolution.More specifically the series provides an understanding of post-war Egyptian history in relation to the Empire that has lead to 2011's massive popular resistance. It is a story where we see the effects of the policies formulated by behind-the-scenes Empire directors to "guide" the political affairs of Egypt to serve Empire interests. Read Part 3 here.
