ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the US attack on Afghanistan is an effort to reverse the relative decline of US Empire and to re-establish its hegemony in regions of conflict. The imperial new order creates many challenges, dangers and opportunities for the forces of resistance and opposition if they can overcome the widespread disorientation. As noted by the journalist Martin Wolf the diminution of 'indirect' imperial control over the impoverished and devastated Third World state requires a 'new imperialism'— 'not pious aspirations but an honest and organized coercive force. The imperial counter-offensive is worldwide. The worldwide counter-offensive of October 7 deepened the militarization process in Colombia. The US imperial offensive faced two types of contradictions that were conjunctural and structural. The more profound long-term structural contradictions of the 'new imperialism' are found in the military expansion in a time of deepening economic recession, both locally and worldwide.
