Friday, October 06, 2006

By Reason Wafawarova

THE United States empire, emerging after the collapse of the British Empire which demised with the tumbling of colonial empires in the late 1940s, has been built on the Anglo-Saxon racial hegemony philosophy but the days of America are now clearly numbered on the wall.

From 1945 to 1990, the US empire existed alongside the bipolar superpower structure where the US political and economic power was always checked by the might and influence of the Soviet Union.

After the peaceful and almost miraculous collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1989, the US basked in ideological victory as capitalism triumphed over communism and socialism.

The Soviet Union’s demise came with a new crusade of liberal democracy, an ideology Francis Fukuyama prematurely celebrated as the end of history.

The American liberalist writer, a victim of the post-USSR euphoria, declared that there was not going to be any other ideology after the free market-based liberal democracy, which, God forbid, is founded on Western values and perceptions.

This is the type of market freedom which brought us the lethal structural adjustment programmes, forced down the throats of developing nations by the two 58-year-old Bretton Woods draconian institutions: the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

It needs no reminding that the World Bank/IMF policies brought untold suffering to Third World countries, not excluding our own Zimbabwe which was coerced into privatising everything State-owned in less than five years. The move left tens of thousands jobless, destroyed our university system and gave birth to the current economic crisis.

The US, in a parallel move to the economic structural adjustment programmes, embarked on a liberal democracy campaign, a smokescreen strategy where the US preaches an unrealistic package of limitless freedoms and liberties as a way of either setting up compliant puppet regimes across the world, or creating an excuse for military interventions in countries where such regimes cannot be set up.

Now, it is 16 years after the US assumed unipolar hegemony and the road is clearly coming to an end, thanks to the witless George W. Bush whom Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez describes as a "devil smelling of sulphur".

The US empire is obviously built on US foreign policy, which itself stands on the devilish interests of a 100 or so transnational companies, the amoral aspirations and perceptions of a powerful media driven by the forces of racial supremacy, and the evil desire to sustain a defence industry surviving on the shedding of the blood of "ethnic people" as the Anglo-Saxons describe the rest of the world.

That quartet partnership between the US government, the transnational companies, Murdoch-owned media houses and the arms dealers is the evil coalition which needs to create tyrants, despots, terrorists, dictators, rogue states and outposts of evil to survive.

It is a system which operates on manipulating public opinion through the media and through the machinations of the evil world of intelligence operatives, the secret service underworld.

Well, it is time we came to the point: 16 years after the US assumed unipolar supremacy, 46 percent of its citizens do not believe the official story behind the September 11 2001 bombing of the Pentagon and the World Trade Centre.

There are fundamental scientific questions about the "plane attacks" which the US government has simply failed to either answer or disprove. There are too many inconsistencies in the official story; for example, the uncontested argument that the whole left in the building was too small to have been caused by a Boeing 707 as well as that there hasn’t been any plane debris found at the scene of bombing to date.

The major point here is that only 54 percent of Americans have not shown their public distrust of the system that governs them.

With the Iraq invasion that trust has fallen to 29 percent of the population not showing their public distrust of the American system of governance.

Just like the Roman Empire which started to collapse from within as public opinion slumped due to corruption, and just like the Russian Empire which also was destroyed from within as machinations of the ruling elite failed to sway public opinion, the US empire is fast losing the control of its internal public opinion despite the machinations of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Internationally, Bush has no friends other than partners of convenience and the coerced group of political partners made up of arm-twisted weaker nations whose silence was bought by the power of aid funds. International opinion about the Iraq war is loud and clear; it’s a tremendous shame to be viewed as supporting the war unless one works for the British, Australian or US foreign ministries. I have not heard anyone outside Bush, Tony Blair, John Howard and their immediate subordinates ever suggesting at any forum that there is minimum justification for the invasion of Iraq.

These three individuals have been tasked by their other three partners in crime to get their political act together and find something to gain control of both their local people and the international community and what a way they have found. In the absence of the threat of communists, they need to create terrorists. And in case this does fail to stick due to conspiracy theories and possibilities, they need something to fall back on. And what a better way than to create a replacement for the Soviet Union, better still coming from outside Europe. So why not create the dragon out of Iran? Why not create the monster out of North Korea?

However, the recent resolve at the recent Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Havana, Cuba, clearly showed that the Southern community of this world is happier with both North Korea and Iran than it is with the US empire and its cronies. The resolve was loud and clear: America must be stopped from bullying everyone else and the United Nations must be freed from American manipulation.

The mood from Pakistan, Venezuela’s Chavez, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe at the 2006 UN General Assembly clearly shows that the international political temperatures against the US hegemony have reached boiling point.

Now the US empire cannot survive its own internal strife, strained international relations, the rising influence of the emerging power (China), a strained military fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq and having to prepare for possible conflicts in Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. At this point, even little Zimbabwe could afford to tell the Americans to come if they want and this just shows how depleted the power of the empire has become.

The biggest error Bush made was to make that stupid and uneducated declaration that countries and regions were either with the Americans or with terrorists in his war against terror. Now the regions and countries are clearly neither with the Americans nor with the terrorists. If anything, many countries are against both, which makes the interesting observation that the end of the American empire could come with the end of the terror campaign.

After all, is it not a fact the greatest motivation of terrorism is the presence of the US as a superpower in general and Americans’ presence in Iraq and Afghanistan in particular?