World Tribunal on Iraq
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4698251.stm
didn't want to start ANOTHER thread on the sub group issues of this......so posting it here.
(Brit soldiers facing war crime charges.......
...... meanwhile the US and its illegal/unethical conduct remains uncontested. Interesting ethics/legal/moral system from the US side. )
didn't want to start ANOTHER thread on the sub group issues of this......so posting it here.
(Brit soldiers facing war crime charges.......
...... meanwhile the US and its illegal/unethical conduct remains uncontested. Interesting ethics/legal/moral system from the US side. )
http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/archives/content/issue19/features/paxamericana.php
K - That link had these words, which I have clipped for quick reading:
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In the end, all war is about economics
the war in Iraq is the first salvo of a trade war
a series of wars whose purpose is to establish the security necessary for the United States to dominate the agenda and process of globalization ..... mutually assured dependence
it is not voting that has been of importance, but the emergence of a non-governmental elite whose interests gave it a vested interest in how the government was run.
the rule of law is in place to protect the interests - and property - of the elite, the capitalist elite - those who own the means of production.
to hell with making the world safer for democracy – what we seek is to make the world safer for capitalism.
We make the world safe for democracy by first making it exploitable by capitalists, and to make it exploitable by capitalists we must first impose order.
The trouble is, in this effort the “value” of democracy is for sale, as it is US prosperity that is sought, not the prosperity of the world at large. In fact, what is sought is prosperity for the US multinational corporations, who, according to this perspective, are the engine of economic prosperity.
Using the war on terror as a device, the US now has reason to intervene, unilaterally if it sees fit, into any society it deems as a haven for terrorists.
....the history of US foreign policy demonstrates a rather clear bias toward dictatorship as it has viewed that as the fastest path to "stability" which can be functionally defined as access to the economic assets of the country.
a rational view of "cross-border capitalization" is that it is generally better for the multinational than it is for countries and their populations in the “Gap.” ; In effect, what we have in American foreign policy is a rationale for moving forward with a process that has limited demonstrable benefit for the local economy and in fact has a marked tendency to destabilize it, deprive the local government of the regulatory capacity to protect itself, and leave the local people subject to forces originating in other countries or, more to the point, within the operations of US multinational corporations.
The “war on terror” is the perfect storm. Having established an international policy based on corporate imperialism, the United States has instituted a military response to the resulting pan-nationalistic guerilla war that is guaranteed to engender more terror, enhancing both the status and market share of the “military-industrial complex”, the US multinational corporations and legions of “contractors” who feed off of the continuous need for administration of and reconstruction following military intervention
The engine driving this new war is the same as the old – pressing the message of capitalism and “prosperity” forward in the name of democracy ;
Their goal:
“stable governments, rising standards of living, and more deaths by suicide than murder.”
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K - War is about Economics, the evidence is the War on Iraq...
Corporate interests have taken too much of our world allready - global warming for eg. - and its time we started regulations and ended the drive for privatisations and globalisation-the-american-way.
K - That link had these words, which I have clipped for quick reading:
--------------------------------------quoted:
In the end, all war is about economics
the war in Iraq is the first salvo of a trade war
a series of wars whose purpose is to establish the security necessary for the United States to dominate the agenda and process of globalization ..... mutually assured dependence
it is not voting that has been of importance, but the emergence of a non-governmental elite whose interests gave it a vested interest in how the government was run.
the rule of law is in place to protect the interests - and property - of the elite, the capitalist elite - those who own the means of production.
to hell with making the world safer for democracy – what we seek is to make the world safer for capitalism.
We make the world safe for democracy by first making it exploitable by capitalists, and to make it exploitable by capitalists we must first impose order.
The trouble is, in this effort the “value” of democracy is for sale, as it is US prosperity that is sought, not the prosperity of the world at large. In fact, what is sought is prosperity for the US multinational corporations, who, according to this perspective, are the engine of economic prosperity.
Using the war on terror as a device, the US now has reason to intervene, unilaterally if it sees fit, into any society it deems as a haven for terrorists.
....the history of US foreign policy demonstrates a rather clear bias toward dictatorship as it has viewed that as the fastest path to "stability" which can be functionally defined as access to the economic assets of the country.
a rational view of "cross-border capitalization" is that it is generally better for the multinational than it is for countries and their populations in the “Gap.” ; In effect, what we have in American foreign policy is a rationale for moving forward with a process that has limited demonstrable benefit for the local economy and in fact has a marked tendency to destabilize it, deprive the local government of the regulatory capacity to protect itself, and leave the local people subject to forces originating in other countries or, more to the point, within the operations of US multinational corporations.
The “war on terror” is the perfect storm. Having established an international policy based on corporate imperialism, the United States has instituted a military response to the resulting pan-nationalistic guerilla war that is guaranteed to engender more terror, enhancing both the status and market share of the “military-industrial complex”, the US multinational corporations and legions of “contractors” who feed off of the continuous need for administration of and reconstruction following military intervention
The engine driving this new war is the same as the old – pressing the message of capitalism and “prosperity” forward in the name of democracy ;
Their goal:
“stable governments, rising standards of living, and more deaths by suicide than murder.”
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K - War is about Economics, the evidence is the War on Iraq...
Corporate interests have taken too much of our world allready - global warming for eg. - and its time we started regulations and ended the drive for privatisations and globalisation-the-american-way.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/leopold6.html
the silencing of opposition....
(all these factors go into : "prosecuting" this invasion. ...albeit verbally so far)
the silencing of opposition....
(all these factors go into : "prosecuting" this invasion. ...albeit verbally so far)