A beautiful
song, being sung by a beautiful girl, the combination of both should make us
feel anything but angry. Yet this song makes me angrier than hell. It's because
she sings the truth. This is NOT America. We live in a
nation that is no longer what it once was. From time to time in this country,
we have committed our share of atrocities and made our share of mistakes.
The
genocidal wars against the Native Americans, the overthrow of legitimate
governments by our military and the CIA, the wars of Imperialism against
nations like Spain and Mexico, the list goes on. Yet today I am proclaiming
that we no longer live in America.
Of course we
live in America! How could we not be living in America?
Physically
we still live in America, the landscape is still America. The people are still
Americans. Still, this is not the America I was taught to respect and love.
Since the end of World War II, and especially
after the end of "The Cold War", America has morphed into something else, something
a bit more sinister, more self-involved, and something more imperialistic. This
nation now strives for global hegemony, for control of this planet, all
powerful and led by the wealthiest elites.
Libya was a
tremendous tragedy, not only for the Libyan people themselves, but for the
entire world. President Obama used a Security Council vote to take America into
a war that was not sanctioned by Congress. We supplied militias with modern
heavy weapons and anti-aircraft guns and missiles while our jets bombed a good
majority of that nation back to the stone-age. Now that nation is basically a
lawless State with no effective central government.
"But the
government in Tripoli doesn't control most of the country. The central
government is still being established amid tribal violence and bedlam caused by
what analysts call the West's reckless disregard of Libyan "social and cultural
nuances" during the invasion. The effect
is a problem of armed autonomous groups not aligned with the central government
and who refuse to lay their weapons down. "Militias that are roaming the
countryside and the other cities have very directly and clearly asserted that
they are not accountable to the government," Ms. Bennis told The Final
Call ."
The nation is in a shambles. There is
no real central government anymore. Lawless militias roam across the country
and disagreements are settled by gun-barrels. "The future remains uncertain and
the new Libya appears to be worse than what the old Libya was only accused of
being by its foes. After betrayal, regime change and assassination, what are
left are confusion, chaos, mayhem, and unfettered access to the natural wealth".( The
Final Call )
Bahrain had a genuine Arab-Spring
democratic uprising that was stopped by force by the Bahraini monarchy, the
al-Khalifa Family and an incursion by the Gulf Cooperation Council (the GCC),
made up of Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE, all of these nations
monarchies themselves. The democratic protestors have had many of their kind
killed by government and GCC member-states, including many doctors and medics
that have treated the wounded. The US turns a blind eye to the stomping out of
dissent in that nation, home to the US Fifth Fleet.
Syria, which has a sectarian
government, is fighting a war with the Syrian Free Army. Don't let the name of
the FSA fool you, most of the fighters it contains are not even Syrian. The
militia is made up of Sunni fundamentalist mercenaries. They come from Libya,
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other member state of the GCC. They are funded by the
CIA, UK's MI-6, Israel's Mossed and Turkey. The war is spilling over into Lebanon
and other border areas including the Kurdish border lands.
During an
interview I had with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts yesterday, I asked him what the
future of America looked like considering the path we have undertaken (Global Hegemony).
His answer was "nuclear war". I was not taken aback by his answer as this is my
opinion also.
The United States spends 53% of its discretionary
budget on the military and for weapons of war. The percentage of military spending
vs. the GDP is the most since 1945. You never hear a word about the continuous
wars and about the huge sums we spend on our military when mainstream media lackey's
ask the Presidential candidate's questions.
I watch Scott Pelly on CBS just to
hear the government's "spin" on events. I actually get nauseous when he "report's"
on Syria. He always uses the same words. "Today in Syria the dictator Bashir
al-Assad used the full power of its military to strafe its own cities and to
fight back against the "freedom fighters" of the Free Syrian Army. Could this
be anymore Orwellian? First of all, the majority of fighters aren't even Syrian
and secondly, they are mostly made up of Sunni fundamentalists that desire a
Sunni Caliphate. Democracy isn't even in their vocabulary, except when they are
talking to the western news media.
Could you imagine how the U.S.
Government would respond if we were attacked in our own cities by foreign militias
funded by other nations? Maybe the media will someday get its head out of its
ass and actually report real news. That "someday" can't come fast enough. The
world won't last too long after the US goes to war against China and Russia.
That is unfortunately where we are headed to.
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