Standing for World Anarchist Revolution.The collapse of governments is
already drawing closer as the mad COW drops missiles on yet another country
(Turkey,this time)
Who's next?
The collateral damage from this war seems set to be stratospheric.Some
background.
The clash between Great Powers ("Old Europe" versus and the Anglo-American
military axis) broadly pertains to:
1 Defense and the military-industrial complex,
2. Control over Oil and Gas Reserves,
3. Money and currency systems: clash between the Euro and the Dollar.
1. Defense and the military-Industrial complex
Beneath the gilded surface of international diplomacy, fundamental changes
in the structure of military alliance have occurred. Since 1999, France and
Germany have established military cooperation agreements with Russia.
NATO is divided. While Britain and the US have joined hands through the
so-called "Atlantic Bridge" in defense production, coupled with close
cooperation in military and intelligence operations, significant divisions
have developed between the US and several of its "European partners". The
Anglo-American axis in weapons production is clashing with its powerful
Franco-German rival, the European Aerospace and Defence Corporation (EADS).
The Western defense industry is split down the middle with British
Aerospace systems now firmly aligned with the big five US weapons producers
against the competing Franco-German conglomerate EADS.
2. Control over Oil and Gas Reserves
The broader Middle East-Central Asian region encompasses more than 70% of
the World's reserves of oil and natural gas. According to U.S. Central
Command: "The purpose of U.S. engagement... is to protect U.S. vital
interest in the region - uninterrupted, secure U.S./Allied access to Gulf
oil." In other words, this is a war of conquest, which also targets rival
oil conglomerates including those of Russia and France which have sizeable
oil interests in Iraq and Iran.
In turn, the Anglo-American oil giants (BP-Amoco, Chevron-Texaco,
Exxon-Mobil, Shell) � supported by the Anglo-American military axis are
clashing with Europe's oil giant Total-Fina-Elf and Italy's ENI, which have
sizeable interests in Iraq, Iran, and Central Asia. Washington has in
recent years attempted to break France's deal with Teheran on the grounds
that it openly contravened the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act. What this suggests
is that Europe's largest oil conglomerate dominated by French, Belgian and
Italian oil interests � in association with their Iranian and Russian
partners � are potentially on a collision course with the dominant
Anglo-American oil consortia, which in turn are backed by the
Anglo-American military axis:
"Iraq currently possesses 11% of the world's oil and ranks only second to
Saudi Arabia in the size of its reserves (112 billion barrels).
Exploitation costs are less than half those of deep sea drilling. Direct
access to the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean ensures strategically
secure oil supply routes. The Anglo-american oil giants (BP,
Chevron-Texaco, Shell, Exxon) are all absent from Iran and Iraq, which have
signed oil contracts and production sharing agreements with French, Russian
and Chinese oil companies. Because of the UN sanctions on Iraq, the
agreements signed by Baghdad are not ("officially") operational." (Eric
Waddell, The Battle for Oil, Global Outlook, Issue. No. 3, Winter 2003).
According to the Washington Post (15 September 2002): "A U.S.-led ouster of
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein could open a bonanza for American oil
companies long banished from Iraq, scuttling oil deals between Baghdad and
Russia, France and other countries, and reshuffling world petroleum
markets� A proposed $40 billion Iraqi-Russian economic agreement also
reportedly includes opportunities for Russian companies to explore for oil
in Iraq's western desert. The French company Total Fina Elf has negotiated
for rights to develop the huge Majnoon field, near the Iranian border,
which may contain up to 30 billion barrels of oil."
The war is not only being carried out with a view to taking over Iraq's oil
reserves, it is intended to cancel the contracts of rival Russian and
European oil companies as well as exclude France, Russia and China from the
region.
3. Money and currency systems: clash between the Euro and the Dollar.
What is at stake is the rivalry between two competing global currencies:
the Euro and the U.S. dollar, The process of European monetary integration
has encroached upon the hegemony of the US dollar.
The process of dollarisation, which is ultimately an instrument of economic
conquest is undermined by the Euro.
Wall Street is clashing with competing Franco-German financial interests.
The war in Iraq pertains not only to control over reserves of petroleum,
the control over money creation and credit is an integral part of the
process of economic conquest. .
The Anglo-American Military Axis
The 1999 war in Yugoslavia contributed to reinforcing strategic, military
and intelligence ties between Washington and London. After the war in
Yugoslavia, U.S. Defence Secretary William Cohen and his British
counterpart, Geoff Hoon, signed a "Declaration of Principles for Defence
Equipment and Industrial Cooperation" so as to "improve cooperation in
procuring arms and protecting technology secrets" while at the same time
"easing the way for more joint military ventures and possible defence
industry mergers." 25
Washington�s objective was to encourage the formation of a "trans-Atlantic
bridge across which DoD [U.S. Department of Defence] can take its
globalisation policy to Europe. �Our aim is to improve interoperability and
war fighting effectiveness via closer industrial linkages between U.S. and
allied companies." 26
In the words of President Clinton�s Defence Secretary William Cohen:
[The agreement] will facilitate interaction between our [British and
American] respective industries so that we can have a harmonized approach
to sharing technology, working cooperatively in partnership arrangements
and, potentially, mergers as well.27
The agreement was signed in 1999 shortly after the creation of British
Aerospace Systems (BAES) resulting from the merger of British Aerospace
(BAe) with GEC Marconi. British Aerospace Systems was already firmly allied
to America�s largest defence contractors Lockheed Martin and Boeing. 28
The hidden agenda behind the Anglo-American "trans-Atlantic bridge" is to
eventually displace the Franco-German military conglomerates and ensure the
dominance of the U.S. military industrial complex (in alliance with
Britain�s major defence contractors).
Moreover, this integration in the area of defence production has also been
matched by increased cooperation between the CIA and Britain�s MI5 in the
sphere of intelligence and covert operations, not to mention the joint
operations of British and U.S. Special Forces.
The United States and Germany
The British military-industrial complex has become increasingly integrated
into that of the U.S. In turn, significant rifts had emerged between
Washington and Berlin. Franco-German integration in aerospace and defence
production is ultimately directed against U.S. dominance in the weapons
market. The latter hinges upon the partnership between America�s Big Five
and Britain�s defence industry under the trans-Atlantic bridge agreement.
Since the early �90s, the Bonn government had encouraged the consolidation
of Germany�s military industrial complex dominated by Daimler, Siemens,
Krupp. Several important mergers in Germany�s defence industry took place
in response to the mega-mergers between America�s aerospace and weapons
producers.29
Already in 1996, Paris and Bonn had set up a joint armaments agency with
the mandate "to manage common programs [and] award contracts on behalf of
both governments." 30 Both countries had stated that they "did not want
Britain to join the agency."
In turn, France and Germany now control Airbus industries which is
competing against America�s Lockheed-Martin. (Britain�s BAES owns the
remaining 20 per cent). The Germans are also collaborating in the Ariane
Space satellite-launching program in which Deutsche Aerospace (DASA) is a
major shareholder.
In late 1999, in response to the �alliance� of British Aerospace with
Lockheed Martin, France�s Aerospace-Matra merged with Daimler�s DASA
forming the largest European defence conglomerate. And the following year,
the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS) was formed integrating
DASA, Matra and Spain�s Construcciones Aeronauticas, SA. EADS and its
Anglo-American rivals are competing for the procurement of weapons to
NATO�s new Eastern European members. (Europe�s third largest defence
contractor is T��h
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