World Disorder

Prof. Dr. Luiz Alberto de Vianna Moniz Bandeira, Baron de São Marcos, is graduated in juridical sciences, and also holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of São Paulo.  He was professor at the Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo. In 1976, he received grants from, among other institutions, the Ford Foundation, to conduct research in Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay on Brazil's historical role in the Río de la Plata Basin. From 1977 through 1979, he extended this research project to the United States and Europe, thanks to a post-doctoral fellowship awarded by the Social Science Research Council and the Joint Committee on Latin America Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies in New York. He held the Chair of History of Brazilian Foreign Policy in the Department of History at the University of Brasília. He was awarded the Juca Pato Prize and named as Brazilian Intellectual of 2005 for the book Formação do Império Americano (Da Guerra contraa Espanha à Guerra no Iraque). He was subsequently awarded an honorary doctorate by UniBrasil in Curitiba and by Federal University of Bahia. Bandeira has been invited to lecture in many countries around the world. He was an Under-Secretary in Rio de Janeiro’s State Government, being its representative in the federal capital, Brasília from 1991 through 1994 and a cultural attaché at the Consulate-General of Brazil in Frankfurt am Main from 1996 through 2002. Luiz Alberto de Vianna Bandeira has been awarded the Cross of Merit by Germany and the Gran-Cross of Baron of Rio Branco, by Brasil.

• 1 Introduction: US, the Middle East, Syria, and Ukraine: A Dialectical Approach on Recent History.- 2 The US Republic and Its Transformation Into an Oligarchic Tyranny.- 3 The Military-industrial Complex in the West and the Opposing Power Sphere in the East.- 4 Nine-eleven and the Accelerated Mutation of the American Republic.- 5 An Astonishing Continuity: From George W. Bush to Barack Obama.- 6 A New US Strategy to Confront China's and Russia's Growing Military Power.- 7 From Soviet Union to Russian Oligarchic Power System, and Forwards to Putin.- 8 The USA/NATO Push Toward the East After the Collapse of the Soviet Union.- 9 The Real Reasons of Washington's Intervention in Libya.- 10 Geopolitical Lessons Learnt and Not Learnt: The Case of Syria.- 11 Chemical-weapons Attack in Ghouta as a Pretext for USA Intervention.- 12 A New Piece in the Geopolitical Game: The Invention of Ukraine.- 13 Lenin's Incentive to Self-determination and Ukrainian Nationalism.- 14 Ukraine as Soviet Republicand After: Focus on Donbas.- 15 US Efforts on Drive a Wedge Between Ukraine and Russia.- 16 Russia Opposes a New Orange Revolution in Ukraine.- 17 The Ukrainian Shift Away from Russia, and Putin's Reaction.- 18 Crimea Back to Russia, and Economic Sanctions Against Russia.- 19 Ukrainian Regime Change, Civil War and the USA-Russia Proxy War.- 20 Ukrainian Separatists and the War in Donbas.- 21 The Ukrainian Government, the Rise of the Extreme Right, the Minsk Agreements, and the Persistence of Conflict.- 22 Ukraine: The Same Political Environment As in the Middle East and North Africa.- 23 Israel Under Right-wing Government.- 24 Netanyahu's Occupation Policy and the Israel-Palestian War.- 25 A New Cold War, a New Moscoe-Beijing Axis, and the Decline of American Hegemony.- 26 Epilogue: US Military-Financial Oligarchy and the Exporting of "Democracy" through war and Terror.