Don’t Hold Your Breadth, Change is Not Around the Corner

With the looming defeat of the US in the war on terror, US Imperialism is itching for a new fight, this time with a resurrected Soviet Union. Huh? Some may say. What is he talking about? How can he say that we’re about to lose the war on terror when it looks, according to McCain, like we’re on the verge of success? Well, success in Iraq i.e. a relatively stable, nationalistic regime that requests the eventual withdrawal of US forces, is failure in the “war on terror” because the so-called war on terror is all about establishing a permanent beachhead in the Middle East by occupying Iraq in perpetuity. No matter, let's fold that hand and deal out a new one.

Then you might ask, US imperialism, isn’t that an old, anachronistic term that hearkens back to the discredited rhetoric of the Cold War? Aren’t our problems a result of the neocon led Bush coup d'état that overthrew our reasonable diplomacy, the peace and prosperity of the Clinton years? Horsefeathers. The neocon theory and practice is taken lock, stock and barrel from the tried and true bag of tricks, with a proven track record, used by US imperialism going back to the days of the Monroe Doctrine.

A resurrected Soviet Union, you say? Isn’t today’s Russia a flawed but functioning democracy? Yes, indeed. But, our exalted leaders of the Republocrat party need to reinvent the Cold War to replace the tarnished War on Terror if they are to continue their push for global hegemony, which until recently seemed as assured as a slam dunk.

Let’s not fool ourselves. The US monopolists could care less about human rights, freedom or democracy. They are useful ploys to pull over the eyes of the forever-gullible American electorate. All the feigned indignation over the Russian invasion of Georgia and the autocratic rule of Putin in Russia and all the hoopla over “Freedom for Tibet”, “Darfur Genocide”, “Internet Censorship” and the plight of “Chinese Dissidents” are comical if not laughable in light of the Bush regimes actions over the last decade. US imperialist front groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are having a field day running interference for their corporate sponsors. By highlighting so-called human rights abuses in our supposed adversaries they allow our propagandists to whitewash their own far more deadly sins. If we are to understand the world we live in we most remove the scales from our eyes.