A breathtakingly powerful Mafia is running away with the world as we knew it. We now have indiscriminate killings, torture and deprivation of civil rights. We have unbound aggression on countries that present an obstacle to
The world-wide Mafia operates under the system of Neoliberalism, which means Free Trade that favors the rich countries, the corporatocracy (a coalition of government, banks, and corporations), financiers who do not see any further than multiplying their assets in a second with a stroke of the computer, and the arms industry that delivers the tools to empower this fundamentally corrupt system. The military, whose major function is to secure free access to gas, oil and other essential resources, is clearly also an important link in the project of world domination. NATO is just a U.S.-governed tool to keep
The Unites States is on its way to becoming a third-world country as far as the poor are concerned. In addition, the standard of living for the middle classes is deteriorating further and further. The richest country in the world has a catastrophic so-called health care system that is primarily intended to make huge profits for the private health industry (with negligent improvement in sight). Other crucial problems are the low-standard educational systems, decaying or non-existent infrastructure, a severe lack of public transportation – the last point contributing to the overuse of carbon fuels in this country. There is also less and less financial support for social institutions, such as daycare centers, libraries, art centers, leisure and cultural activities.
And alongside all this rot and badly lacking services there are the financial speculators and the Big Bankers who are accumulating billions in profits and bonuses and all the while real unemployment is rising to much higher numbers than is admitted by the administration.
The
But far from all the environmental problems of the day are due to the effects of the increase of carbon dioxide in the air, due to the millions of tons of oil, gas and coal that run the big production and the huge trucking industries.
What needs to be mentioned with more emphasis than anything else is the willful neglect of the environment, where among the disastrous results are polluted water systems, foul air that we breathe in daily, polluted soil, spread of radioactive waste from multiple sources, formerly unknown diseases, allergies, asthma and cancers. In many of these catastrophic cases, action could be taken to clean up contaminated water and soil, but none is taken.
These severe health risks are conveniently hushed up by the Big Corporations that spew out the waste. Also in the lead of harmful corporations are the biotech companies that are ruining the environment, maybe forever, by their toxic products under totally false pretenses of solving the problem of global poverty and bringing about a new green revolution. Green indeed! There are lands made barren by long-term cultivating of the toxic products that the biotech companies, Monsanto, Syngenta et al., hype up as life savers. They produce high-risk genetically engineered seeds, pesticides and weed killers that destroy everything that gets in their way.
One of the most insidious products from Monsanto is recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone milk, rBGH dairy products that are not even labeled as such, even though they constitute a serious risk to people’s health. Monsanto has even tried in court to legally ban the labeling of non rBHG milk products, under the pretext that such labeling might make customers believe that rBGH milk is a health risk.[3] Yes, indeed! Anything to keep
There is also obviously a total absence of concern for human lives. We are all guinea pigs in a big game of looting the planet. The bio-tech companies are so hand-in-glove with politicians that it seems to be of no use for private individuals to raise their voices in protest and disgust.
“At this time, the FDA does not regulate or test GMO products and there is NO labeling to tell
…
“Genetically engineered foods have quietly filled
Nevertheless, it is only by fighting fearlessly against this totally immoral and destructive system that things will ever be able to change. Congress is doing nothing. The presidential candidate Barack Obama made promises to clean up the environment, but nothing is changing.
Is this expansionism, killing and destruction anything new?
Some will say that nothing much has changed since the beginning of the expansionist colonies that became the
However, the way things look today, with the total disregard for the Constitution and for human suffering, the criminal conduct of
From the appalling callousness with which the
This first Patriot Act was reinforced in 2004 by Patriot Act II, which by some accounts gave the U.S. President dictatorial powers.[6] These Patriot Acts explicitly show a total lack of respect for domestic as well as international law and they make perfectly clear the way the
Its refusal to join the International Criminal Court as well as its lack of respect for the edicts of the International Court of Justice an of the U.N. are just symbols of the utter arrogance with which the U.S. administrations, one after the other, have shown complete contempt for international cooperation. The
The endgame of the rule of the Empire is now near at hand. The reckless multiple wars in progression and even the day of the beginning of aerial attacks against newly created targets is now in sight. The way the aggression is getting out-of-hand is clearly visible – at least to everyone who cares to look and listen, but obviously not to the warmongers themselves. There is clearly-voiced concern from both military and civilian quarters, but nobody in
The geo-political truth of the situation
Can
Ten south-eastern nations have also formed the trade pact ASEAN, which
The countries in Central Asia that
Those borders never made much sense and so the various regions continued to be run by local warlords, and central power was virtually inexistent. In both
In the lunatic way that is their trademark, rather than working towards uniting these countries, the
However, the way the Empire sees it,
“The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAP or TAPI) is a proposed natural gas pipeline being developed by the Asian Development Bank. The pipeline will transport Caspian Sea natural gas from
There is obviously also the imperative of establishing military bases in these countries, which will serve as a central point from which to reach strategic goals in that part of the world, and compete with the BRIC countries for ownership of oil and gas in Central Asia.
Where do drugs come into the equation?
Ever since the presidency of Richard Nixon the
In
Based on 2003 figures, drug trafficking constitutes "the third biggest global commodity in cash terms after oil and the arms trade." (The Independent, 29 February 2004).
…
There are powerful business and financial interests behind narcotics. From this standpoint, geopolitical and military control over the drug routes is as strategic as gas and oil pipelines.[13]
What is the long view of these wars?
The
In the United States where generalities about phony ‘values’ are mouthed non-stop, democracy, freedom, family, puritan values, all equally empty, there is in reality only one value and its name is PROFIT.
There is a strange principle that has dominated political thinking since the beginning of unfettered capitalism – this being the absolute necessity of economic growth in order for the world to survive. What happened to the true values, the ones that are worthy of the name? The corporatocracy threw them out with their unlimited greed for profit that now dominates all economic thinking?
This has especially been true since Neoliberalism was born with the
So is this the way the world ends? Or are we the people going to be able to finally stand up and scream out loud that our rights are taken away from us by this cruel system that runs on reckless greed and nothing else?
[1] NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), FTAA (Free Trade Area of the
Americas ), CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) - ‘Third World Traveler’
[2] More about this in John Perkins: ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man’
[3] Explaining Monsanto's Desire to Ban Current Milk Labeling
[4] GMO - Another Reason Not to Eat Processed (American Chronicle, April 2009) According to Responsible Technology, ´Animals fed on GMO in labs and farms around the world, have exhibited symptoms related to the growing list of diseases in the
U.S. population. Various feeding studies in animals have resulted in potentially pre-cancerous cell growth, damaged immune systems, smaller brains, livers and testicles, partial atrophy, odd shaped cell nuclei and other unexplained anomalies besides false pregnancies and higher death rates.´
[5] The
USA PATRIOT Act Was Planned Before 9/11
[6] Secret Patriot Act II to give Hitler's Powers to Bush
[7]
[9] China-ASEAN Free Trade Area - Origins, Developments and Strategic Motivations “Apparently China is employing this regional integration or regionalism to dilute
[10] “With the beginning of CIA support for him in 1959, the CIA’s client Phoumi Nosavan, for the first time, directly involved his army in the opium traffic, “as an alternative source of income for his [Laotian] army and government… This decision ultimately led to the growth of northwest Laos as one of the largest heroin-producing centers in the world” in the late 1960s. [23] (The CIA not only supported General Ouan Rattikone (Phoumi’s successor) and his drug-funded army, it even supplied airplanes to senior Laotian generals which soon “ran opium for them” without interference.)[24] Conversely, when the
US withdrew from
Laos in the 1970s, opium production plummeted, from an estimated 200 tons in 1975 to 30 tons in 1984.” (Obama and Afghanistan: America’s Drug-Corrupted War by Peter Dale Scott)
[12] Implemented in 2000-2001, the Taliban's drug eradication program led to a 94 percent decline in opium cultivation. In 2001, according to UN figures, opium production had fallen to 185 tons. Immediately following the October 2001 US led invasion, production increased dramatically, regaining its historical levels. … According to the UN,
[13] Who benefits from the Afghan Opium Trade? by Michel Chossudovsky
[14] ‘Blurred Clarity : Milton Friedman and the
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