United Press International: Anglosphere: Globalization and sovereignty Via Alisa in Wonderland


This one's an interesting read. On the future of national sovereignty and the dangers of opposing Bush and Blair.

[...]The next decade will probably tell us whether "sovereignty" will become a synonym for "possession of nuclear weapons." Why this is so is also relevant to the question of why U.S. President George W. Bush has become a pariah in certain circles worldwide. These two issues are part of a larger complex of questions having to do with the basis of international order and the contending schools of understanding about it.[...]


Ironically, many of those who profess to hate war, empire and poverty, and who strive for a just international order, accuse Bush and Blair of promoting those things. In reality, a failure of the Bush-Blair coalition would sooner or later (probably sooner) give rise to a world in which a number of regional tyrannies who gradually, under the cover of their weapons of mass destruction, would annex first the states that are sovereign by convention, such as Kuwait, and eventually many that have been sovereign by circumstance.[...]