| The "ideological battle of the century" is not between the U.S. and Iraq. It is not between the west and the middle-east. It is not between Christianity and Islam. Instead it is a rejection of economic colonialists by the worlds poor. |
| These revolutions have happened independently of each other on a small scale all over the world for decades. But the recent trend in globalization and global communications will have a synchronizing effect on these movements that are currently festering all over the world.
You can go back in time as far as you want to go in identifying these revolutions. You could start in 1958 with the overthrow of Batista in Cuba by Castro. (Unless you want to go all the way back to Bolivar.) That began the recent series of anti-colonial movements in Central and South America. Recently left leaning governments have been elected in Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Nicaragua, etc. These governments all, to one degree or another, threaten the dominance of U.S. corporate power in their countries. Examples include recent promises by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to nationalize the energy and communications sectors. It is not yet known how the current corporate owners would be compensated for confiscated infrastructure. Mexico just experienced an extremely close presidential election. Huge demonstrations among the working class supported the losing left-wing candidate, who vowed to set up a parallel government. Poverty among Mexicans is rampant, especially among the working poor in the south. The governing right wing party may be forced by civil unrest to reconsider the advantages that U.S. corporations have lorded over workers in Mexico. The recent liberation of Iraqi oil was supposed to result in an outpouring of gratitude by the Iraqi population. However, as it turns out, it seems like a colonial policy in a post-colonial age may not work out so well after all. Even in China, recent unrest has convinced the Chinese leadership to grant concessions in the arena of union organizing, much to the chagrin of U.S. corporate interests. We see it here in the U.S. too. Tax cuts have made the very wealthy even richer. Meanwhile manufacturing jobs, and more recently technical support jobs, that used to provide a middle class lifestyle have been moved overseas where wages, benefits and worker protections are scant. These displaced former middle-class workers are flooding into the service sector, where they join the working poor whose wages are already being depressed by illegal immigration. The corporate controlled media manages to distract and distort this reality enough to convince just enough voters to vote against their own self-interest and perpetuate the system. The disparity of income between rich and poor is increasing globally. The world’s resources are increasingly concentrated into the hands of a few corporate interests and their bought-off government collaborators, while the standard of living for workers continues to decline. The bonds between the people who control the capital and live off of the profits, and the people who actually produce the goods and services, are being stretched like a rubber band. The purchasing power of the former group is racing up, while for the latter group it is decreasing steadily. This dichotomy is happening on a global scale in an economy that is more interconnected than ever before. In the past these conditions spawned isolated, uncoordinated working class revolts around the world. At the behest of U.S. corporate interests, the C.I.A. could tamp these down in a global sized game of "whack-a-mole." The old magic was still on display in Haiti. Lawfully elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide's offense was to insist that U.S. manufacturing firms raise Haitian workers wages from grueling poverty to at least respectable poverty. Aristide was deposed by the Poppy Bush administration in the early 1980s. The Clinton administration allowed him to return to Haiti, where he won a second presidential election. But soon upon the return of Republican rule under Junior Bush, Aristide was actually whisked away to South Africa by the C.I.A., where he remains in exile to this day. But recently, corporate interests have been overrun by the sheer volume of resistance. The attempt to overthrow Chavez in Venezuela (which has C.I.A. fingerprints all over it) was thwarted, and the more recent re-election of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua appears to have been accepted without even a challenge, a far cry from the mine-the-harbors days of Reagan and his C.I.A. chief William Casey. In this interwoven economy, will worker unrest in one location ripple out into other spheres? Will tension that is building globally erupt globally? Would a worldwide explosion of worker dissatisfaction overwhelm the power structure wielded by U.S. corporate interests, their government sponsored enforcement agencies, their despotic allies in the Middle East and their puppet governments scattered around the world? What mechanisms would be used to coordinate such a groundswell? How do we react if the corporate controlled media presents as acceptable and normal the deposing of legitimately elected third world leaders who advocate the rights of workers over corporations by the C.I.A.? Could the internet be the tool that allows organizers and advocates to create an end-run around the corporate controlled media and keep these issues alive in the imagination of the powerless? Does the hour grow closer as internet access expands? |
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| If you want to know what is going on in the middle east and who is to blame for it, I suggest you look at this video. "British Jewish Zionist MP Gerald Kaufman says Israel Acting like NAZIs in GAZA" www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEYz00MqCx0 P.S. The USA wouldn't be in Iraq or Afghanistan if it wasn't for AIPAC and their influence within our own government. Just look at some of the people who got us into this situation. They are jewish people like Wolfowitz, Pearl, Leiberman, Bush, Rumsfeld, Kissinger, Rockefeller, etc. I know some will say Bush is not Jewish, but they should research the families past. You will find stories exposing how his family history contains Jewish Rabbis. You might want to check out www.powerofprophecy.com for more information. | food for thought |
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