Imperialism, capitalism, and empire are essentially one. There are some people who try to split up the unholy triumvirate, but it should not be done. I suppose it can be done as an academic exercise, but in real life it is impossible to split. Some have isolated one from the other as a finely honed deception, as if capitalism can be kept pure from atrocities - but they are just fooling others or are self-deceived.
It does not serve any purpose for progressive elements to make jokes about how "stupid" this administration is supposed to be. Whether you are talking about this administration, or the entire length of them since the founding of this nation - there is a design taking place. It is vicious, and tears at the fabric of the world, causing death and destruction in it's wake. Imperialism is an intelligent, rational, but morally corrupt form of the accumulation of wealth for the few, no matter what the cost to humanity.
The history of US policy, even before WW2, is a history of violent and bloody intervention. It has not been a force for good, virtue, and democracy in the world! You have been propagandized - you have been fooled - you have been taken for the proverbial ride, there is not a more brainwashed and disconnected people in history than the American public.
Our leaders say they are dedicated to democracy, they vainly spew it from their mouths on a regular basis, but it is a lie. The US national security state has been the key force of (the last 50 years for example) overthrowing reformist democratic governments in Guatemala, Guiana, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Syria, Indonesia, Greece, Argentina, Haiti, Bolivia, and that does not even scratch the surface of all the places violated! These democratic governments have been replaced with pro-capitalist military regimes, that open up their resources, markets and cheap labor (unorganized and underpaid, intimidated by death squads), and have been forced open to US corporate investors on terms that are totally agreeable to them!
The US government has been involved in covert actions, in proxy mercenary wars (run by proteges of the School Of The America's in some instances) - training, equipping, paying, advising, via the Pentagon, the CIA, and the US National Security State against popular revolutionary governments in Cuba, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Portugal, South Yemen, Nicaragua, Cambodia, East Timor, Western Sahara, Egypt, Lebanon, Peru, Iran, Zaire, Figi Islands, Afghanistan ( which is another woefully lacking list). Us forces with direct aggression and invasion have attacked in recent years Viet Nam, the Dominican Republic, North Korea, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Libya, Iraq, Somalia, with invasion or aerial assault - once again a short list. Millions of people killed by both direct and indirect aggressive actions!
The US government has been involved in covert actions, in proxy mercenary wars (run by proteges of the School Of The America's in some instances) - training, equipping, paying, advising, via the Pentagon, the CIA, and the US National Security State against popular revolutionary governments in Cuba, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Portugal, South Yemen, Nicaragua, Cambodia, East Timor, Western Sahara, Egypt, Lebanon, Peru, Iran, Zaire, Figi Islands, Afghanistan ( which is another woefully lacking list). Us forces with direct aggression and invasion have attacked in recent years Viet Nam, the Dominican Republic, North Korea, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Libya, Iraq, Somalia, with invasion or aerial assault - once again a short list. Millions of people killed by both direct and indirect aggressive actions!
Of course, you never hear a word about this from the US corporate media, the whores and liars for the state. They become mute when they are told, and are infested by psyop's military spokespersons - even their ranks are filled with ex-CIA and FBI cronies.
All through the Middle East, popular movements, workers movements, unions, student movements, farmer collectives - all of them destroyed and shattered by US aggression in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon. In Saudi Arabia that filthy rich, corrupt family would not be able to survive if they did not have US support.
All through the Middle East, popular movements, workers movements, unions, student movements, farmer collectives - all of them destroyed and shattered by US aggression in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon. In Saudi Arabia that filthy rich, corrupt family would not be able to survive if they did not have US support.
Twenty one countries in Africa have had enormous amounts of US arms, and bribes, to put in the most oppressive, retrograde, and corrupt rulers in to destroy every popular and democratic movement. Those in Africa are perfectly capable (contrary to racist propaganda, taught in US schools and spread by corporate media) of democracy, viable production, and have the ability to organize their own markets and labor - they are not allowed to do it!! Because of the destruction of the economic infrastructure, the impoverishment of the people, and the destruction of their future - they have killed the future of these nations. Drowning them in debt, tying their viability to foreign capital, and spiriting the wealth away from the people.
Anyone who dares to question these atrocious actions is called a rogue state. There is no rogue state, no terrorist movement, no communist threat, that has this kind of record! This record of murder, destruction and violation of international law solely belongs to the US leadership. This is a matter of public record, it's just that it does not get voiced in the corrupt media in the US.
It is not good enough to just say that this is happening, we have to ask WHY is this happening. People have to know why these atrocities are going on - as long as they believe the lies that they are being protected nothing will happen. They do not care what their leaders are doing as long as they think they are protecting them. The leadership drums it into their heads that people are out to get them, the communists - someone in south/central America - someone from the moon - the terrorists, etc. I mean every year it is something else, it is really sickening. They do it because they want it all, they want to do whatever is necessary to fill the pockets of the few, the elite. They get rich while the people pay the price. The so-called war on terrorism is the elites ticket to carte blanch destruction of other countries without end - because it is a "new war," and it is one that will "never end."
The US government has given hundreds of billions of dollars away for foreign military aid - imagine what that could have done at home, enough to solve all the budgetary concerns in the states right now. It was aid given away to subsidize millions of foreign troops and internal security forces in more than eighty countries. Not to defend those nations from outside invasion - but to protect ruling oligarchs and corporate investors from the dangers of domestic anti-capitalistic insurgency! There has been no evidence that they have been threatened by neighboring countries, so why build up the military forces? IT IS TO MAKE WAR ON THEIR OWN PEOPLE, THEIR OWN WORKING PEOPLE. TO PROTECT THOSE COUNTRIES AND MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR THE FORTUNE 500!! THESE COUNTRIES ARE OPENED ON A GLOBAL SCALE FOR EXPLOITATION FROM TRANS-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND INVESTORS. THESE FORCES THAT WE SUPPORT HAVE ALWAYS BEEN USED TO OPPRESS PEOPLE WHO JUST WANT SOME FORM OF EGALITARIAN FAIR PLAY.
The struggle has always been between those who think the land, the labor, the resources, the markets, the technology, and the capital of the world are there for the capital accumulation and enrichment process of the few, as opposed to those who think those things are there for the needs and the social betterment of the many. That is the struggle that goes on to this day.
If you think what I am talking about is a recent development you are sadly mistaken, in 1907 listen to what Woodrow Wilson said: "Since trade ignores national boundaries, and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market - the flag of the nation must follow him, and the doors which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions gained by finance must be safeguarded by ministers of state. Even if the sovereignty of the nations are outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained and planted in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or unused." THAT IS WHAT WE ARE FACING, WE EITHER DEAL WITH IT OR DIE WITH IT - WHEN THE PEOPLE ARE READY TO DO SOMETHING THINGS WILL CHANGE.
HOW CAPITALISTS WORSHIP
DIE FOR YOUR GOVERNMENT
A NEW GHOST DANCE
CONDI THE MATERIAL GIRL
NO WAY
CORPORATE SLAVE
DIE FOR YOUR GOVERNMENT
A NEW GHOST DANCE
CONDI THE MATERIAL GIRL
NO WAY
CORPORATE SLAVE