One Percenter Corporatocracy And Huge Global Deaths - Make 4 July
By Dr Gideon Polya
05 July, 2014
Countercurrents.org
An egregiously One Percenter-threatened World should urgently make the Fourth of July Independence from America Day. Make no mistake, the World loves and is inspired by the best of America, and notably by the best of its entertainers, sportsmen, writers, scholars, scientists, musicians, artists, actors, heroes and activists, and in particular we love American ideals as expressed in the American Declaration of Independence and the small community values of friendship, goodwill, tolerance and altruism. However
The dream of America has transmuted into a Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI) One Percenter Amerika to the point that Jewish Hungarian American investor, billionaire, philanthropist and WW2 Jewish Holocaust survivor George Soros has called for the “de-Nazification” of America, stating in relation to the illegal war in Iraq that “[America's future depends on the] extent it recognizes the mistake.
In similar vein, conservative, blue blood Republican, so-called Father of Reaganomics Dr Paul Craig Roberts (formerly Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under Reagan, associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate, and with many university appointments) writing for 4 July 2014 stated: “In the United States patriotism and militarism have become synonyms. This July 4th find the courage to remind the militarists that Independence Day celebrates the Declaration of Independence, not the American Empire. The Declaration of Independence was not only a declaration of independence from King George III but also a declaration of independence from unaccountable tyrannical government. The oath of office commits the
Two conservative swallows do not make a summer. Accordingly it is useful to objectively and quantitatively consider American One Percenter crimes against Humanity, including Americans, concentrating on direct or indirect violations of the most fundamental human right, namely the Right to Life of born human beings. Thus when America invades and occupies a country or establishes hegemony through military bases or political subversion (as revealed by world heroes Julian Assange and Edward Snowden), America then becomes responsible not just for violent deaths through killing but also for avoidable deaths from US-imposed deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease [3].
I have set out below a succinct, quantitative summary of American One Percenter imperialism since 1776 and its dire human consequences.
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American Indian nations (1776 onwards, American Indian Genocide; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; 1844, Indians banned from east of the Mississippi; 1861 onwards, California genocide; 1890, Lakota Indians massacre), (2) Mexico (1836-1846; 1913; 1914-1918; 1923), (3) Nicaragua (1856-1857; 1894; 1896; 1898; 1899; 1907; 1910; 1912-1933; 1981-1990), (4) American forces deployed against Americans (1861-1865, Civil War; 1892; 1894; 1898; 1899-1901; 1901; 1914; 1915; 1920-1921; 1932; 1943; 1967; 1968; 1970; 1973; 1992; 2001), (5), Argentina (1890), (6), Chile (1891; 1973), (7) Haiti (1891; 1914-1934; 1994; 2004-2005), (8) Hawaii (1893-), (9) China (1895-1895; 1898-1900; 1911-1941; 1922-1927; 1927-1934; 1948-1949; 1951-1953; 1958), (10) Korea (1894-1896; 1904-1905; 1951-1953), (11) Panama (1895; 1901-1914; 1908; 1912; 1918-1920; 1925; 1958; 1964; 1989-), (12) Philippines (1898-1910; 1948-1954; 1989; 2002-), (13) Cuba (1898-1902; 1906-1909; 1912; 1917-1933; 1961; 1962), (14) Puerto Rico (1898-; 1950; ); (15) Guam (1898-), (16) Samoa (1899-), (17) Honduras (1903; 1907; 1911; 1912; 1919; 1924-1925; 1983-1989), (18) Dominican Republic (1903-1904; 1914; 1916-1924; 1965-1966), (19) Germany (1917-1918; 1941-1945; 1948; 1961), (20) Russia (1918-1922), (21) Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999), (22) Guatemala (1920; 1954; 1966-1967), (23) Turkey (1922), (24) El Salvador (1932; 1981-1992), (25) Italy (1941-1945); (26) Morocco (1941-1945), (27) France (1941-1945), (28) Algeria (1941-1945), (29) Tunisia (1941-1945), (30) Libya (1941-1945; 1981; 1986; 1989; 2011), (31) Egypt (1941-1945; 1956; 1967; 1973; 2013), (32) India (1941-1945), (33) Burma (1941-1945), (34) Micronesia (1941-1945), (35) Papua New Guinea (1941-1945), (36) Vanuatu (1941-1945), (37) Austria (1941-1945), (38) Hungary (1941-1945), (39) Japan (1941-1945), (40) Iran (1946; 1953; 1980; 1984; 1987-1988; ), (41) Uruguay (1947), (42) Greece (1947-1949), (43) Vietnam (1954; 1960-1975), (44) Lebanon (1958; 1982-1984), (45) Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011, 2014), (46) Laos (1962-), (47) Indonesia (1965), (48) Cambodia (1969-1975; 1975), (49) Oman (1970), (50) Laos (1971-1973), (51) Angola (1976-1992), (52) Grenada (1983-1984), (53) Bolivia (1986; ), (54) Virgin Islands (1989), (55) Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003), (56) Saudi Arabia (1990-1991), (57) Kuwait (1991), (58) Somalia (1992-1994; 2006), (59) Bosnia (1993-), (60) Zaire (Congo) (1996-1997), (61) Albania (1997), (62) Sudan (1998), (63) Afghanistan (1998; 2001-), (64) Yemen (2000; 2002-), (65) Macedonia (2001), (66) Colombia (2002-), (67) Pakistan (2005-), (68) Syria (2008; 2011-), (69) Uganda (2011), (70) Mali (2013), (71) Niger (2013) [4].
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3. American hegemony associated with over 1.3 billion avoidable deaths since 1950. A major component of war- or hegemony-related deaths is represented by non-violent avoidable deaths from violently-imposed deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease. Since 1950 the UN has provided detailed demographic data that have permitted calculation of such avoidable deaths, year by year, for every country in the world. 1950-2005 avoidable deaths total 1.3 billion for the whole world, 1.2 billion for the non-European world and 0.6 billion for the Muslim world, the latter carnage being 100 times greater than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) or the “forgotten” WW2 Bengali Holocaust in which the British with Apartheid Australian complicity deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death for strategic reasons. Currently 17 million people die avoidably each year in the Developing World on Spaceship Earth with the
4. American occupation has been associated with over 82 million avoidable deaths since 1950. Below is a summary of 1950-2005 avoidable mortality/ 2005 population (both in millions, m) and expressed as a percentage (%) for each country occupied by the
5. Huge and deadly American wealth inequality linked to violence and war. There is a remarkable dichotomy of evil and good in
6. American wealth inequality linked to 1.3 million preventable American deaths annually. The horrendous wealth inequality and militarism (including an estimated $40 trillion long-term accrual cost of Apartheid Israel to Americans [9]) is linked to 1.3 million preventable American deaths each year linked to the fiscal perversion of traitorous Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist One Percenters committing $8-10 trillion to ethnic cleansing and active and passive mass murder of 12 million Muslims abroad since 1990 in the War on Muslims (and 10 million in the post-2001 War on Terror) in support of US hegemony, oil and Apartheid Israel instead of keeping Americans alive at home [9, 10].
7. American violence linked to 100,000 opiate drug deaths annually. According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) about 0.1 million people die from opiate drug-related causes each year. The US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from 6% of world market share in 2001 to 93% in 2007 means about 0.9 x 0.1 million deaths per year x 12.7 years = 1.1 million global deaths due to US Alliance-pushed Afghan opiates, this including about 200,000 Americans, 50,000 Iranians, 18,000 British, 10,000 Canadians, 8,000 Germans and 4,000 Australians [10].
8. American –initiated and US-dominated tobacco industry kills 6 million people each year. In the United States tobacco use is responsible for about one in five deaths annually (i.e., about 443,000 deaths per year, with an estimated 49,000 of these smoking-related deaths as the result of second hand smoke exposure) [10]. However, worldwide tobacco-related deaths total about 6 million each year from the American –initiated and US-dominated tobacco industry [11].
9. Apocalyptic One Percenter
Conclusions.
The US One Percenters are not the only One Percenters in the world but the US One Percenters dominate as does their neoliberal philosophy. Similarly, while the
With half the world's wealth in the hands of the One Percenters, “one dollar one vote” trumps the notional “one man one vote” for the remaining 99% who, like legislators, are subject to a barrage of neoliberal propaganda from the presstitutes of the One Percenters. The Western democracies have become One Percenter- and Ten Percenter-dominated Murdochracies. Lobbyocracies and Corporatocracies in which Big Money buys people, politicians, parties, polices, public perception of reality and political power. What can decent people do before it is too late (if it is not too late already)? Decent people who care for future generations, Humanity and the Biosphere must (a) inform everyone they can, (b) apply, where feasible, Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the climate criminal and war criminal One Percenters and their Ten Percenter lackeys, and (c) make the Fourth of July Independence from America Day.
References.
[1]. Gideon Polya, “George Soros urges Bush America "de-Nazification" after removal of war criminal Bush regime”, Bellaciao, 21 February 2007: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article14465 .
[2]. Paul Craig Roberts, “July 4th Militarist Bunkum (an encore by request)”, Countercurrents, 3 July 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts030714.htm .
[3]. Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” that includes an avoidable mortality-related history of every country since Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ .
[4]. Gideon Polya, “The US Has Invaded 70 Nations Since 1776 – Make 4 July Independence From America Day”, Countercurrents, 05 July 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya050713.htm .
[5]. Jules Dufour, “The world-wide network of
[6]. Thomas Piketty “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”.
[7]. Gideon Polya, “Key book review: “Capital In The Twenty-First Century” by Thomas Piketty”, Countercurrents, 1 July 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya010714.htm .
[8]. Gideon Polya, “4 % annual Global Wealth Tax to stop the 17 Million deaths annually”, Countercurrents, 27 June, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya270614.htm .
[9]. Gideon Polya, “American Holocaust, millions of untimely American deaths and $40 trillion cost of
[10]. Gideon Polya, “ One million Americans die preventably annually in
[11]. “Tobacco”, WHO, 2014: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs339/en/ .
[12]. DARA, “Climate Vulnerability Monitor. A guide to the cold calculus of a hot planet”, 2012, Executive Summary pp2-3: http://daraint.org/climate-vulnerability-monitor/climate-vulnerability-monitor-2012/ .
[13]. “Climate Genocide”: “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ .
[14]. Gideon Polya, “Pro-gas Obama's EPA-based plan to reduce coal-based pollution amounts to climate change inaction”, Countercurrents, 7 June 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya070614.htm .
[15]. “300.org – return atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org---return-atmosphere-co2-to-300-ppm .
[16]. Jasper Copping, “British have invaded nine out of ten countries – so look out
[17]. Gideon Polya, “President Hollande and French invasion of privacy versus French invasion of 80 countries since 800 AD”, Countercurrents, 15 January, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya150114.htm .
Dr Gideon Polya has been teaching science students at a major Australian university for 4 decades. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis,
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