While the age of empire has ended, imperialism has never ended. It is also so true when it comes to the yuon imperialism.
A MR not by the Windsor On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Ông-thu N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *W*hat has happened to the common sense of Americans? Has it completely > gone down the drain with the propaganda of U.S. superiority? > > Don't they see the millions and millions of people who have died and are > still dying across the world, due to U..S. empire illusions and the firmly > established greed and power of the Big Corporations? Don't they see that the > lone superpower as a taken-for-granted is a fiction? > > Yes, the United States was once a powerful nation, and a nation that people > in the world looked up to, but it lost all its good points on the > aggressive stand all over the world. Its go-it-alone, > we're-the-leaders-of-the-world mentality is the way this 'superpower' has > been living it up at least since World War II. The more it has been crushing > and killing, the more it has lost its credibility in the world. The more its > corporations intruded on the sovereignty of other states, the faster did > this country lose its favorable standing in the world. > > And Americans themselves, how do they see the world at this point? From a > distance it seems as if they are beginning to open their eyes. One big BUT > however. The everyday American is not capable of giving up on his deeply > indoctrinated faith that the United States is the greatest country in the > world. They 'know' that they are basically moral, highly civilized, good > people who want to confer their way of life to the whole world since the > rest of the world is so uncivilized, so poor, living in such precarious > conditions. > > There is no doubt in their minds that the United States is the foremost > democracy in the world. Since they don't know anything about the rest of the > world, it's easy to propagandize them into believing just about anything you > want to make them believe. And besides, don't the every-two-year elections > prove that they are the ones who select the leaders and so they have a voice > in what's being done in their names? A majority of U.S. citizens are most > certainly taken in by the belief that they participate in the running of the > country. > > It's doubtful if there are many Americans who see the National conventions > that have just started as the fool's gold that they are. The most expensive > circus that ever was and that the people pay dearly for.. Just another > Disney World to fool the people into believing that something important is > going on and that they matter. "We don't have a moment to lose or a vote to > spare," [Hillary] Clinton said. "Nothing less than the fate of our nation > and the future of our children hangs in the balance." [1] > > What is hanging in the balance is hard to see since both presidential > candidates are saying pretty much the same things, except that their styles > are different. Ok, Obama/Hillary now say Healthcare for all, but that is to > be seen once the corporations get into the game. The arms manufacturers > telling the new administration what they 'need', the HMO's, the > pharmaceutical industry, all the corporate giants telling them of their sine > qua non. Nothing so far has indicated in the least that either Hillary or > Obama is against privatization or the free market. Disaster capitalism, as > Naomi Klein says, is the name of the system and democracy is the victim. > Regulation is a non-concept. How can corporations develop and maximize > profit if they are being regulated? Starve the people but don't you ever > think of strangling the corporations that are making the world go round. > Profit is king and the people be damned. > > So how do Americans see their country's criminal aggressions and the > callous greed? First of all, greed is a good thing in the American credo. > God rewards the hard workers and the ones left behind have no reason to > complain. Socialism is a dirty word and welfare is only good when it's for > the benefit of the Big Corporations. > > Instead of seeing that the United States invades or buys every country that > does not agree with their methods of running business, the gullible U.S. > citizen is firmly convinced that the U.S. comes to the aid of every country > when it is in trouble. They support the evil dictator and things calm down. > Nobody ever lets them know that what the U.S. is doing is in the interest of > its own global hegemony and that the indigenous people are beaten down and > suffering even worse after the United States gets in on the side of the > dictator. For every social uprising in Central America, from the > CIA-orchestrated coup in 1954 in Guatemala on through the Reagan years, the > United States has intervened with an iron fist, bombing and killing, usually > through mercenary death squads, until the leftist struggle for justice is > totally crushed and the U.S.-supported dictatorship can go on doing the > bidding of the Empire. > > Inside the United States, the increasing inequality and vanishing civil > rights are forcefully backed up by the Big Corporations who see that state > of things as the only way of meeting their goal of ever increasing dividends > to the shareholders and multi-million bonuses to the CEOs. Furthermore, this > is the way of life that is considered by them as the normal way of running > the economy. Ethics do not exist. Those who were born to grab from the > others will do so no matter what they were taught in Sunday school about > doing good to their neighbor. > > So why don't the U.S. governments try to rein in the greedy corporations? > Because the corporations are the ones who run the show, who tell the > so-called rulers what to do – in all countries more or less, not just in the > United States. The lawmakers and the heads of governments are all puppets > dancing on strings, unless the so-called rulers actually have a foot in each > camp. They pretend to run the country but they are actually looking after > the corporations they are tied to and their own interests. In this last > administration, this has been the case more than ever before. > > It is certainly not in the interest of the ruling elite to give in to > demands of fair treatment from the poor sections of society or even from the > middle class. Starving the beast is a prerequisite for controlling the > populace, for setting the rules of the game. A population that is ignorant, > apathetic from tiredness and overwork, dumbed down from infotainment and > antiseptic television shows – that is exactly what suits the greedy money > makers. No insurgency, since there's no energy left for such a thing as a > fight for better conditions. No knowledge about the rest of the world, and > so Americans can go on believing that they are the best, no matter what the > rest of the world might feel about that unquestioned rule of faith.. So the > world doesn't love us any more. It's because of the war in Iraq. It's that > simple. > > Creeping totalitarianism, the people losing one civil right after the > other, and their voices not being heard or paid attention to. This is what > has become of 'America the beautiful'. And all the while through non-stop > propaganda the citizens are made to believe that they live in a democracy. > > In this police state there is no need to make Jews scrub the sidewalks. > There is no need for ostentatiously depriving a section of the population of > their freedoms and making them the scapegoats. Poverty will serve the > purpose of creating a marginal group that can be exploited.. No need for arm > bands with the star of David. The poor people and in particular the > immigrants have their backs sufficiently bent to serve the ever-existing > need of a class to look down on. In spite of the age-old history of racism > in America, this is not a war on race, it's a class war, and it's getting > more and more extreme. The so-called free trade system, which is far from > free, is only benefiting Big Money. > > Desperate poverty has been increasing all over the world ever since the > organizations that set the rules for the economies of third world countries > promised to solve the crisis of hunger and poverty in the world. In fact, > what they were gearing up to do was finish off the plunder of the poor > countries that depended on their high-interest loans. You might well ask > yourselves if this neocolonialism is not even more disastrous for the > third-world countries than the former kind that was very gradually ended > after World War II, at least in a legal sense. > > 9/11 was a windfall for the neocons since, whoever orchestrated it, it > paved the way for the totalitarianism that we are now witnessing. It made > the invention of the 'war on terror' possible.. A war president can allow > himself to commit aggression in the name of the people that would meet with > violent protests in a peaceful era. Fear is the ever efficient means of > keeping a population under control. > > Little did they see that the ambitions of the neocons went much farther > than the invasion and occupation of Iraq and the control of its oil > resources. The aim was much higher. To begin with they wanted control of the > whole Greater Middle East. Then what was going to follow was clearly control > of the planet and possibly outer space. However, it now seems obvious that > their ambitions will be cut short, since other big powers are rearing their > heads in different parts of the world. > > Also the 'war on terror' has been proven to be a worn-out cliché, a > nonsense word, mainly because all this so-called war is doing is increasing > the resistance to the United States and its aggressive march across the > world's continents. Even the U.S. citizens are aware of this counter-effect. > > So what the neocon regime is now aiming at is a renewal of the cold war. > Russia is going to be the enemy No.1 once again. They make the people > believe that things are calming down in the Middle East. Iraq is moving > towards a democracy, is what they try to make people believe. What is > happening in Afghanistan and Pakistan is hushed up. They have the media on > their side, which has of course been essential in winning the support of the > people that they have had so far. > > The question is now: Will le capitalisme sauvage (as the French say) win > the life or death game or will the people finally gather strength and a > voice and manage to throw them out? To the corporations it's a game, to the > people it's a matter of sheer survival. > > All the ballyhoo about the American dream is just that and as for Bill > Clinton's words about restor[ing] America's standing in the world [2], > that's for megalomaniacs and dreamers. We will be lucky if the planet > survives, and it will take the rising up of the people, a forceful attack on > the prevailing corporate system by the people all over the world to make > that happen. The world is under attack from U.S. corporatism, ecology, > economy, inequality, injustice, and it's not just American citizens who have > to speak out and act out. It's the people of the world. > > Notes > > [1] Steven Rosenfeld: Hillary Electrifies: "Nothing Less Than the Fate of > Our Nation … Hangs in the Balance" > > [2] Bill Clinton at the Democratic National Convention on August 27, 2008 - > exact quote: "Clearly, the job of the next President is to rebuild the > American Dream and restore America's standing in the world." > > Siv O'Neall is an Axis of Logic columnist, based in France. She can be > reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- MR, Khlean + Khlao + Khlach = Khmer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. 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