World Watcher: On Manufacturing War is an anthology of articles on the relentless effort of Trans-Atlantica - the United States and its NATO partners - to overcome peace and perpetuate war, selected by a veteran analyst on world affairs from an oeuvre of her published works spanning the past quarter century. Diana Johnstone demonstrates how the end of the Cold War, rather than bringing about world peace, made it clear that 'the communist threat' had above all served as a pretext for aggressive militarization Subsequent pretexts focusing on human rights violations, 'authoritarianism' and imaginary scenarios were to follow. A new age of endless war has been deliberately manufactured by the dominating powers of finance, mass media, entrenched institutions and opportunistic politicians. This book addresses: - the ideological aspects of Western aggressivity. - the opening act of NATO's rebirth as aggressive war-maker with the destruction of Yugoslavia, using humanitarian pretexts to