USA Inc. is a term I use to prevent over-generalization. I know that unless a society is run with perfect consensus democracy, then what is done in the name and with the resources of the people of that society is not the same as the actual will of each individual. The discrepancy between in whose name and with whose money on one hand and according to whose will and desire on the other becomes even greater with majority rule democracy and even more so in a flawed democracy when it is not even the majority of the voting and paying population that is reflected in the acts of the national "whole".
I want to avoid coming off as if I blamed all and everything usually incorporated into the terms "America","Americans", "USA" etc and instead better target the actual puppet masters and interests behind certain actions and decisions.
It is my belief and educated theory that the power generated by having in possession something many others want badly(money, information,opportunities etc), gives those holding such resources and such power a direct and indirect influence over the decision making of our political representatives that goes beyond that given by the "one-person-one-vote". I believe mainly it is monetary interests that shapes the main agenda of what is being done with the money and in the name of the population of most nations. USA is far from the only example, but it is undoubtfully the most powerful puppet to play among the nation-states. The people are the resource-providing "shareholders" of a corporate-like institution which is used to generate ever-increasing profit.
However, as it is not a corporation per se there are no laws and no real demand for the proper distribution of the generated profits. The "shareholders" are not given pay-offs in proportion to what is generated or to the risks they are taking with their "investments". Nor are they given insight or influence as to the decisions and plans of the "board of directors" - in fact, they have no idea of either the total number or the identity of those ultimately pulling the strings at the very top. It is much like Enron - the majority of those investing in without having much insight and control when it came to what their investments was being used for, will find themselves being betrayed, robbed blind and gradually understanding that the major winners won because they had never intended the company to last but instead sought out to suck out all they could before leaving the ship to go down.
Dissemination of guilt and sacrifice, concentration of revenue and power.
Thus, USA Inc refers to the actual puppet masters: inter- and transnational actors using their influence and resources to alternately steer and dictate the movements of the big actors on the international arena such as transnational NGOs, IGOs, PGOs, nation state governments, unions and blocks of nations, central banks etc. For a better description and identification of these Puppet Masters, see my other article(6).
USA Inc has been more active in creating the same Somali crisis/war/turbulence/disaster(terminology becomes tricky when all words seem worn and washed out and/or incorrect-not to mention that the spin masters of the official puppets steal and alter the meanings of terms on a continuous basis) that it is now a mixture of covert and overt actions participating in.
"A U.S. air attack on a Somali village (7)occupied by Islamists believed to be sheltering an Al Qaeda suspect has left "many dead bodies", a Somali government source said on Tuesday.."
U.S. FORCES HIT FOUR LOCATIONS IN SOMALIA AIR STRIKES ON WEDNESDAY(8)
This direct involvement of USA is just the present top of an iceberg of "From USA with love"-inscribed aid and support to various elements in the past that helped bringing the present situation about.
Reports have also emerged that suggest paramilitary presence of special forces of U.S Military and CIA officers now directly embedded with Ethiopian forces in Somalia. Earlier this year, the CIA began quietly making cash payments to a group of Somali warlords who pledged to help hunt down members of Al Qaeda. Publicly the U.S. claims it does not back Somali warlords.
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Jendayi Frazer, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa: "We do not want to return to warlordism in Somalia. We don't support it, we don't want it, the people don't want it and their neighbors don't want it. So those individuals who are characterized as warlords should join the process of national inclusive dialog and join the process of having a peaceful Somalia. They should turn in their weapons. They should have their militias go away or join the legitimate institutions of the government." http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/09/1454242
However, believing that requires a direct ignorance of (quite recent) history of just such warlord support:
For several years Somalia's three major anti-Islamist warlords have received U.S. cash and some equipment to help with intelligence operations, according to several unofficial sources, including John Prendergast of the International Crisis Group. .....much of the money is funneled through the 1,800-man Joint Combined Task Force, based in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa. Other reports point to the CIA. .... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13008291/site/newsweek/page/2/
The CIA was found in April to have paid despised Mogadishu warlords to help fight the Islamists on counter-terrorism grounds, only for them to lose the city to disciplined Islamist fighters in June. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L092788.htm
Although ,still unconfirmed but nonetheless substantiated enough to require a firm planting of the head in the sand not to take serious (and certainly we are told to believe much less substaintial claims , for example of Al-Quaida presence in Somalia), is the presence of U.S signed aid and support to the warlords that has kept Somalia in a state of violent anarchy. Although several warlords were U.S friendly - that is, willing to allow for U.S interest to be incorporated into their own agenda - some were less so. One warlord - Muhammed Farrah Aydiid - was named as directly involved in the aggression that led to attacks on U.S Marines that led to the disaster of U.S deaths and humiliation broadcasted in media and later captured in the movie Black Hawk Down.
