The
Cracks In The Façade
Are Widening
By Siv O'Neall
14 September, 2007
Axis
Of Logic
The
world has been taken hostage in the most gigantic, megalomaniac and
malevolent plot that has ever been conceived by man. Words like democracy
and freedom no longer have any meaning. We are all pawns in a huge game
of 'get-the-booty' and 'rule-the-world'. Individuals have strictly no
value. People only exist so as to be used as slaves until they die from
exhaustion or survive in utmost misery and total insecurity, until their
children can take over in the same kind of miserable treadmill.
The larger the number that
succumb to disease and starvation, the better, in the view of the perfectly
callous creatures who are the skippers of the ship at this time. The
poor are just ballast and are better gotten rid of.
Who are the people who call
the shots in today's world? The real leaders are the financiers who
work in collusion with governments, the transnational corporate leaders
who care about nothing except immediate gain. The big corporations swallow
up the minor ones and it's a free-for-all in this jungle where money
is king. Money is what matters and nothing else does.
To make this plunder appear
reasonable, the U.S. empire which holds most of the strings to world
power, has to have a reason for gobbling up the rest of the world. There
are no restrictions due to moral principles, civil rights, international
treaties or any constitutional principles whatsoever. Everything has
been done to empower the leaders of the empire and the corporations
to crush anyone who stands in their way.
An enemy is needed
Since the United States wants
to hold on to the image that it is a somewhat civilized nation, an enemy
has to be created. It is of no importance whether the enemy has any
existence in the world of reality or if it is just a product of propaganda,
as long as the world can be convinced that there is one, and one that
presents a real threat to the United States and to the world.
Communism or its cousin,
socialism, was an extremely handy pretext for world-wide attacks, from
Vietnam, to Chile to Panama to Nicaragua. And in cases where communism
had nothing to do with the embattled regime, the myth was created. After
the great debacle of Vietnam, the empire ran out of breath for a while.
During Nixon/Kissinger, Reagan, followed by H.W. Bush and Clinton, however,
the American people was convinced again and again that the Communist
dragon was threatening to consume us. Warm-up exercises to prove our
military superiority were conducted in Chile, Central America, Sudan
and Iraq, among other places – these wars usually undertaken with
the principal aim of boosting a tottering public image of the incumbent
president . The object was also generally to prove that the empire still
had the fangs to carry out vicious and, from an international viewpoint,
totally illegal attacks to consolidate its superiority.
After the end of the cold
war, a new enemy had to be created. After the neoconservative clique
in Washington laid their plans for a take-over of the world through
an endless war, the administrations, from Reagan on, played the conquer-it-all
game with great conviction. Then came September 11, like manna from
heaven, and the road was open to world domination. And so the war on
terror was launched on the world scene with great hysteria and fanfare.
Fear would be the clue to keep Americans subdued. Continually renewed
fear would keep the American population from getting out of order and
try massive anti-war demonstrations and civil disobedience acts. People
had to be made to believe that they were in danger and needed to be
defended against the Big Evil. So the propaganda machine was set to
convince people, with renewed vigor, that the United States was the
most morally upstanding country in the world.
Orwellian double-speak was
employed with much success – Pax Americana for eternal war, liberation
of Iraq for the theft of Iraqi oil resources, the greatest democracy
in the world for a nation where civil rights were increasingly curtailed
and popular voting rights were made to be a meaningless concept, through
the multiple ways of rigging the election process.
War, however, was essential
not just to invade and dominate countries like Iraq and whatever countries
are going to follow, but in the interest of the arms industry that was
being enriched in the most obscene way. The huge corporations, the oil
and arms industry in the first place, were all the big players in this
winner-take-all game for Money and Power.
People are of no
importance
In this totally callous race
for profit, the little people, the people who actually did the work,
counted for nothing. The leaders took it for granted that the workers
would always be around to take care of the drudgery jobs. Social expenses
were cut ever more seriously, unions lost their meaning. Everything
that smacked of welfare, expenses for education, for health, for the
psychological wellbeing of ordinary people, was cut out of the budget
as being part of socialist politics that were anathema to the neoconservative
leaders. The goal was to set the clock back to the period before F.D.R.'s
New Deal.
Where are we now?
So where has this extraordinary
megalomania taken us? A nation that was once looked up to in the world,
seen as a leader in various fields, education, research, free speech,
civil rights, high living standards, has now become universally despised
and distrusted.
Where does the United States
stand today, with all its enormously wealthy corporations? It is on
the brink of an economic collapse. The working people have no more buying
power and the values of their homes are collapsing, while the one tenth
of one percent of Americans are wallowing in obscene wealth. The land
that used to pride itself on the possibility of going from rags to riches,
is now a debt-ridden nation with no internal strength left, all set
to crumble at the next serious economic or military downturn.
And in addition to the developing
economic collapse at home, there is the atrocity and the bungling of
the Iraqi occupation, which clearly should never have taken place. And
so as to add even more to the disaster of today's U.S. political situation,
the deaf and blind leaders are posed to attack yet another country with
insane bombing raids. The pretext in the case of Iran is just as flimsy
as it once was for the invasion of Iraq.
A ship in storm
The cracks in the U.S. leadership
are widening. Important members of the military and of the civilian
establishment are abandoning ship, popular disillusion with the current
government is increasing daily and a growing number of Republicans are
either scandal-ridden or giving up on the blind skipper and leaving
the sinking ship.
It's obvious that such misrule
cannot go on forever. The voice of reason must ultimately make itself
heard, but the timid voices of the "opposition" Democrats
can do very little to stabilize the situation or save what can be saved
of the nation's standing in the world. It's pretty clear that the U.S.
is doomed but there are a number of questions – When will the
truth dawn on the clueless leaders? Who will suffer the brunt of the
shipwreck? Only the poor and the middle class? Will the capitalists
always find a way to save their ill-gotten wealth? The future will tell.
However, it's becoming increasingly clear that the days of the U.S.
as a superpower are over.
© Copyright 2007 by AxisofLogic.com
Siv O’Neall
is an Axis of Logic columnist, based in France. She can be reached at
[email protected]
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