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The Different Face of the Third World War

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This is the New World Order. The Neocons are sitting on the throne. Democracy is gone. Corporatism alone rules the world. Countries all over the planet are turning into police states where people are not expected to have any constitutional rights.

So what is the center-piece of this new war? It is getting rid of the poor to make room for the super rich. Reducing the world population by all possible means. By starving the masses, by spreading diseases, by killing and rendering homeless millions of innocent civilians. Sure, drones and missiles still have an important function to fill. Only the rich so-called elite is going to have any say at all in this paradise for the leaders of the world. The question they don't seem to pose is: Who is going to buy the products and who is going to make them, other than the Chinese and people in sweatshops in the third world?

Recolonizing Africa still looks like a possibility for Washington, even though they are in for a hard fight with China on that continent. Ruling over the oil rich Middle East and Central Asia still seems like a half-won goal for the U.S generals and politicians. Globalization is going to serve as a magic wand for Washington to extend its rule to countries via the multinational corporations. They can not possibly invade China, nor India, nor Russia, nor Brazil. But they plan on being the bosses in the running of the world corporations and that way they will still come out as the winners. The stealing of the national resources of countries all over the world will be reinforced and turned into the hands of the corporations. But the signature on the document will be Washington's. They make trade deals with the countries they can't conquer and the future is theirs.

The Colossus is bleeding

However, what is the real future going to be like? What the present rulers don't take into account is people's never-ending fight for their own freedom. For self-rule. For their dignity.

People are rising up all over the world. They don't want to be globalized, to become numbers in a world of increasing profit for the wealthy only. They don't like to lose their savings because of the zero-producing speculation of a tiny clique of callous gamblers. They don't like for the government to use their tax money to bail out banks who go bankrupt when their CEOs still get billions of $ in bonuses.

They don't like money for education and social budgets to be cut short and their children to be faced with up to $100,000 in loans for their college education to pay off after graduation - even though they can't get decent jobs. They don't like jobs to be outsourced to low-paying countries and business plants to be closed down in their home town, leaving them jobless. They don't like to have to pay higher taxes because the rich hide their profits in tax havens, such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands and hundreds of other nations.

One day they are bound to see that Europe, which they call socialist the horror! can afford free university education, good health care and decent social services, partly because European countries spend a fraction of the outrageous amounts of the people's money the U.S. spends on its military budgets.

Major Southeast Asian countries have formed their own free trade zone, AFTA ASEAN Free Trade Area. They simply don't need the West. And China alone is now the world's second largest economy, having passed by Japan in 2009. Several Latin American countries are equally leading a life increasingly independent of the U.S. Empire, forming their own free trade zone, MERCOSUR, passing on the profits from their national resources to their own people [3].

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Siv O'Neall was born and raised in Sweden where she graduated from Lund University. She has lived in Paris, France and New Rochelle, N.Y. and traveled extensively throughout the U.S, Europe, and other continents, including several trips to (more...)
 

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