Now that the CIA’s proxy army has murdered Gadhafi, what next for Libya?
If Washington’s plans succeed, Libya will become another American puppet state. Most of the cities, towns, and infrastructure have been destroyed by air strikes by the air forces of the US and Washington’s NATO puppets. US and European firms will now get juicy contracts, financed by US taxpayers, to rebuild Libya. The new real estate will be carefully allocated to lubricate a new ruling class picked by Washington. This will put Libya firmly under Washington’s thumb.
With Libya conquered, AFRICOM will start on the other African countries where China has energy and mineral investments. Obama has already sent US troops to Central Africa under the guise of defeating the Lord’s Resistance Army, a small insurgency against the ruling dictator-for-life. The Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner, welcomed the prospect of yet another war by declaring that sending US troops into Central Africa “furthers US national security interests and foreign policy.” Republican Senator James Inhofe added a gallon of moral verbiage about saving “Ugandan children,” a concern the senator did not have for Libya’s children or Palestine’s, Iraq’s, Afghanistan’s and Pakistan’s.
Washington has revived the Great Power Game and is vying with China. Whereas China brings Africa investment and gifts of infrastructure, Washington sends troops, bombs and military bases. Sooner or later Washington’s aggressiveness toward China and Russia is going to explode in our faces.
Where is the money going to come from to finance Washington’s African Empire? Not from Libya’s oil. Big chunks of that have been promised to the French and British for providing cover for Washington’s latest war of naked aggression. Not from tax revenues from a collapsing US economy where unemployment, if measured correctly, is 23 percent.
With Washington’s annual budget deficit as huge as it is, the money can only come from the printing press.
Washington has already run the printing press enough to raise the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) to 3.9% for the year (as of the end of September), the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) to 4.4% for the year, and the producer price index (PPI) to 6.9% for the year.
As statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) has shown, the official inflation measures are rigged in order to hold down cost of living adjustments to Social Security recipients, thus saving money for Washington’s wars. When measured correctly, the current rate of inflation in the US is 11.5%.
What interest rate can savers get without taking massive risks on Greek bonds? US banks pay less than one-half of one percent on FDIC insured savings deposits. Short-term US government bond funds pay essentially zero.
Thus, according to official US government statistics, American savers are losing between 3.9% and 4.4% of their capital yearly. According to John Williams’ estimate of the real rate of inflation, US savers are losing 11.5% of their accumulated savings.
As retired Americans receive no interest on their savings, they are having to spend down their capital. The ability of even the most prudent retirees to survive the negative rate of interest they are receiving and the erosion by inflation of any pensions that they receive will come to an end once their accumulated assets are exhausted.
Except for Washington’s favored mega-rich, the one percent that has captured all of the income gains of recent years, the rest of America has been assigned to the trash can. Nothing whatsoever has been done for them since the financial crisis hit in December 2007. Bush and Obama, Republican and Democrat, have focused on saving the 1 percent while giving the finger to the 99 percent.
Finally, some Americans, though not enough, have caught on to the flag-waving rah-rah “patriotism” that has consigned them to the trash bin of history. They are not going down without a fight and are in the streets. Occupy Wall Street has spread. What will be the fate of this movement?
Will the snow and ice of cold weather end the protests, or send them into public buildings? How long will the local authorities, subservient to Washington as they are, tolerate the obvious signal that the population lacks any confidence whatsoever in the government?
If the protests last, especially if they grow and don’t decline, the authorities will infiltrate the protestors with police provocateurs who will fire on the police. This will be the excuse to shoot down the protestors and to arrest the survivors as “terrorists” or “domestic extremists” and to send them to the $385 million dollar camps built under US government contract by Cheney’s Halliburton.
The Amerikan Police State will have taken its next step into the Amerikan Concentration Camp State.
Meanwhile, lost in their oblivion, conservatives will continue to bemoan the ruination of the country by homosexual marriage, abortion, and “the liberal media.” Liberal organizations committed to civil liberty, such as the ACLU, will continue to rank a woman’s right to an abortion with defense of the US Constitution. Amnesty International will assist Washington in demonizing its next target for military attack while turning a blind eye to the war crimes of President Obama.
When we consider what Israel has got away with, being as it is under Washington’s bought protection—the war crimes, the murders of children, the eviction in total disregard of international law of Palestinians from their ancestral homes, the bulldozing of their houses and uprooting of their olive groves in order to move in fanatical “settlers,” the murderous invasions of Lebanon and Gaza, the wholesale slaughter of civilians—we can only conclude that Washington, Israel’s enabler, can get away with far more.
In the few opening years of the 21st century, Washington has destroyed the US Constitution, the separation of powers, international law, the accountability of government, and has sacrificed every moral principle to achieving hegemony over the world. This ambitious agenda is being attempted while simultaneously Washington removed all regulation over Wall Street, the home of massive greed, permitting Wall Street’s short-term horizon to wreck the US economy, thus destroying the economic basis for Washington’s assault on the world.
Will the US collapse in economic chaos before it rules the world?
Please read, Passenger to Frankfurt, by Agatha Christy, for a fictional account of what is happening NOW, published in 1970.
one can only hope , the US a country out of control a UN that may as well shut it doors puppets as they are to the FUKUS GROUP OF TERRORISTS
Thousands of years have passed and the people now are just the same as they were then.
US hegemony, even a the hypothetical situation, is something truly terrifying to me. I’m not anti-US, and I’m not a ‘terrorist’, but I can’t help but feel that the US always acts in its own interests every time it interferes in international politics.
Using the veto against the formation of a State of Palestine was the most obvious example of the US flexing its international muscles. After years of death and destruction in Iraq, NO weapons of mass destruction were found. The war against terror has spread to rooting out supposed terrorists in Afghanistan, where the war is under the guise of a fight for democracy. I fear Pakistan might be next…
And the more I look at it, the more reasonable it seems that the US intervention in Libya was as much to protect its people as it was to kill Gaddafi, a powerful and agressive ruler, AND a long-standing opponent of Israel!
We must wait to see what the future holds for us.
The pattern of empire building is always the same. Get rid of the moral code. Create chaos. Abolish the absolute basic human rights to the truth, life and ownership of property. Concentrate wealth through repression and propaganda. Enter a state of permanent war. No alternative but to keep going until destitution and defeat. A new leap forward in human development rises from the ashes. We have seen this in the British empire which began with the reformation.
We now see it in America and Europe where any semblance of a moral code is completely absent. But for this empire the end-game is approaching more rapidly than I thought possible.
The US is using war & conquest to shore up its battered economy, the very strategy that contributed to the collapse of its economy in the first place.
US debt is far too large. Its economy cannot grow fast enough for it to be able to pay off debt. It is in a terrible debt spiral. The US is too big to be bailed out. The US should accept that it is destined to be second to China & prepare to soft land & minimize damage but no US president can do that. To continue to apply war & conquest policy is just about the only option any sitting president has. But it won’t work, given the size of its debt.
Simply put, the US is in a debt death trap.
Prapa
Bangkok, Thailand
The US is behaving like a headless monster who is bent upon destroying anything comes on its way. With the rise of US as the only super power, it was hoped that the world will now be a better place to live and the great moral and humanitarian values of American people will now be practiced universally. It was also hoped that justice will prevail and US will use its power and influence to resolve various international disputes. But on the contrary the US interventions in various countries has made the world the worst place to live. The people of America should know that the neocons sitting in their congress and senate have time and again pushed the country into uncalled for and unwarranted wars. Very soon the American people will come to know that their Government in their name has been committing crimes against humanity and has been spilling innocent blood all over the world.