The multiple martial expressions of America's might in the world of late also illustrate this contention about conjunction. Thus, the imperial domains of Southwest Asia suddenly become hideous threats to American people--which is bogus idiocy at best, instead of showing up as they really are, plums that financiers and industrialists and other plutocrats have for at least a century or two desired to pluck for their own purposes.
And again, an understanding of the world's financial edifices inherently contributes to a richer comprehension of these matters, as Walter Ratterman ought to have recognized when he installed WB-backed solar panels in Afghanistan rather than minding his own garden near Seattle. If a courageous female freedom-fighter from these highlands-beset-by-war-and-plunder can recognize this, then privileged pupils from the cushy imperial center should be able to come to terms with Malalai Joya presents for them in A Woman Among the Warlords.
In these, and many other obvious manifestations of money, markets, and empire--which lurk behind the surface rationale for such conflicts and contrariety as surely as beams lie behind the lace-like facade of a 'delicate' skyscraper--citizens can hearken back to Wilson, Bukharin, and many other past interlocutors of the workings of the world. If the student gets nothing else from such investigations, he or she ought to gain, uniformly and without exception, a critical wariness against ploys to divide and conquer.
Berch Berberoglu is merely one of the more recent, and one of the most intelligent and impassioned chroniclers of this latter day expression of imperial venality. In his Turmoil in the Middle East, he interweaves class factors, the exigencies of empire, and the fiscal and resource impetuses at work, forming the lattice-work behind a facade of free trade and free markets and free enterprise that, to this day, remain the superficial foundation on which Bretton Woods institutions continue to seek hegemony hither and yon.
"(S)ort(ing) out the class forces that underlie political conflicts that have led to civil strife... .this book seeks to map out the dynamics of social change and social transformation." Sustainable business and renewable energy are merely one pair of reputedly 'progressive' tropes that are impossible either to develop or to explain without this sort of analytical practice.
Professor Berberoglu then suggests what this humble correspondent is saying today, that the citizen must work to carry out such an examination "within the framework of a class analysis approach that takes into account the central role of imperialism and neo-colonial reaction as the twin pillars of the contemporary world political economy." Comparing bailouts to abandonment and showing the disparity between ten thousand dead soldiers and several million slaughtered civilians,represent two of the many specific ways that preparing such analysis can fit within the necessary 'framework.'
Franklin Delano Roosevelt summed up the underpinning social wisdom that necessitates an accurate comprehension of money and its multifarious methods of dominion. "We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. 'Necessitous men are not free men.' People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
As is his occasional wont, THC will close this pair of introductory interludes by way of referencing a favorite bit of verse .
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