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Friday, August 15, 2008 |
Like the Catholic church was selling indulgences in the Middle Ages, America is strewing about immunities. It shows how corrupt the system has become. And how 9/11 was a boon for the Bush administration.
Yahoo: "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, four princes and other Saudi entities are immune from a lawsuit filed by victims of the September 11 attacks and their families alleging they gave material support to al Qaeda, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday."
FT: "The US on Wednesday warned Turkey not to strike an energy deal with Iran that undermined diplomatic efforts to halt Tehran's nuclear programme, on the eve of a visit to Ankara by Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the Iranian president.
A deal to increase Iranian natural gas supplies to Turkey is expected to form the centrepiece of the visit, giving Mr Ahmadi-Nejad a much-needed diplomatic boost as he attempts to defy pressure to isolate Iran."
Shows how freedom loving the US is.
WallStreetJournal: "U.S. inflation accelerated in July, as prices rose 5.6% from a year earlier, the fastest pace in 17 years."
Shows how successful the US is.
But don't you worry a bit, private contracting is booming. They spend, you pay. See, how fair it all is.
TruthOut: "Halliburton takes advantage of a European loophole that lets corporations hide beneficiaries and assets."
And if the OPEC countries dump the dollar there are many ways to profit from that too. No, not you!
See how clever they are. It's called 'disaster capitalism'.
12:13:15 PM 
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Today I woke up with a bright sun rising over our brave new world. Yesterday BBC Radio4 had put a link to my weblog on their webpage. The link has gone now and what remains on the BBC is the usual propaganda about Georgia. It looks like there will be no war in Georgia. So all is well that ends well, one could say.
The reality is different. So far most important papers have had op-eds in which the situation is reported from an alternative viewpoint. When those op-eds disappear what is left? Not very much to be positive about.
The mainstream media are as belligerent and unreasonable as ever. They follow the neocon directives. Never before has the Western propaganda machine been so close to that of Goebbels. Fortunately, you have the bloggers and investigative reporters who are still able to register the hatred and plain imperialism of the 'respectable' news outlets.
AlterNet: "Speaking to reporters about the situation in Georgia, Sen. John McCain denounced the aggressive posture of Russia by claiming that: 'in the 21st century nations don't invade other nations'."
This was said by someone who is a candidate for president. He is either a complete moron or a criminal. Or both. And he certainly believes he is speaking to morons. This is the kind of blindness that leads the world into madness. America has invaded other countries since its creation. It has killed millions of people. It has the worst record of war crimes in the world. Nagasaki and Hiroshima come to mind; these were attacks on civilians, and as such genocide. The same for their inhuman attack on Vietnam. The West excels in hypocrisy and double standards.
The US and Britain are increasingly denying any other country the right to their own sovereignty, to their own resources. It is plain imperialism that is hiding under the cloak of 'human intervention'. There was nothing human in the sanctions imposed in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Web of Deceit: "Sanctions have helped to kill more children per month in Iraq than were killed on September 11th. The UN estimates that 500,000 Iraqi children under five have died since 1990, as a result both of the sanctions and the effects of the Gulf War in 1990-1."
Let's look behind the Western propaganda. What it is all about is the geostrategic power of the US and its British satellite, as explained by Zbigniew Brzezinski in 'The Grand Chessboard - American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives'. This is the blueprint of the Western intentions, and human rights are irrelevant in this power struggle. Well, they are in so far as 'human rights' can be used against America's opponents, like in the International Criminal Court or the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
The Grand Chessboard: "Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization."
That is an appeal for a fascist regime that rules the whole world. It will be undemocratic. It is all about imperial mobilization.
The human prospects this offers are bleak. Imperial mobilization is the official policy of the US and Britain, which simply boils down to plain fascism, the denial of human rights, natural resources and sovereignty to any other nation in this world.
CSMonitor: "Fierce American criticism of Russia's military action in Georgia is almost certain to jeopardize a very different US strategic objective: stepping up pressure on Iran with another layer of United Nations sanctions."
Now this is a crucial thing. The West needs Russia to impose its sanctions, this time on Iran. If the US does not remove a belligerent Saakashvili, Russia is not likely to support more sanctions against Iran.
However, if Russia allows the US to put the same inhuman pressure on Iran as they did on Iraq, then Iran is going the way of Iraq, total devastation and the annexation of Iranian oilfields by the West. Another jewel in the imperial crown of the neocon West. Which would leave Russia, China and India as the next enemies. So whatever Russia does, however nice and compliant they are towards the US, they will be met sooner or later with the same fascist approach that gave us Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, all illegal wars, with disastrous human consequences.
So even when no war will result in Georgia now, Russia can expect more destabilisation from the US later on, when Iran has been conquered. The US and Poland have just agreed to a missile 'shield' pact. Of course this is not a shield, it's a regular missile attack base aimed at Russia.
We have a serious problem here. America can be called a fascist state, tout court. Its aim is world domination. And its wars are already being fought by the most undemocratic means.
A brave new world is in the making. And it won't be to promote democracy, freedom or justice.
9:24:47 AM
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© Copyright 2008 Hetty Litjens.
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