From Ang Bayan posted to the CPP Website (Nov 7): Crisis and imperialist militarism
The US is the most militarist country and the world’s biggest arms supplier. The maintenance of a huge military infrastructure in the US is a stark feature of intensifying inter-imperialist rivalries for territory for investments, markets and oil reserves, among others. The US’ dominant power worldwide is based on the fact that it far outstrips other countries in terms of military might. In the face of the current crisis besetting it, the US has stepped up its militarism. Its goal is to consolidate its dominant position in various parts of the globe. The US has openly declared its plans to strengthen its presence and power-projection in the Asia-Pacific.... US imperialism has the biggest and the most number of military bases. It has 539,000 facilities in 5,000 various areas within and outside the US. This number excludes more than a thousand secret bases and facilities maintained by the Pentagon in more than 150 countries. Among these are CSL (cooperative security locations), military equipment depots and communications bases secretly constructed in various countries, including the Philippines....
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/publications/ang_bayan/20121107/crisis-and-imperialist-militarism
You could change the date of this article to November 7, 2000 or 1995. According the CPP U.S. imperialism is always in crisis.
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