Decades ago, I heard Winston Churchill lamenting after the Second World War that out of two beasts (fascism and communism) only one perished. If that was true, he conveniently forgot to mention the third beast: imperialism.
Why is this important? Because without it one can hardly understand what is going on today, history will repeat itself and generation after generation will suffer.
Imperialism evolved from colonialism and since the Second World War has transformed into entities where countries, nations or continents blend together for the benefit of new age kleptocrats and plutocrats.
Communism turned coats over 20 years ago. The West was presented with a unique choice of building a free and fair world. It chose conquest instead. While the Warsaw Pact was dissolved, NATO expanded (ironically, in view of Bush being papa to Gorbachev, NATO will not move even an inch east).
Bogeyman communism was replaced with the al-Qaida mantra (the former beloved freedom fighters of Reagan and Thatcher). NATO found itself in Afghanistan (bordering China) and Kazakhstan, most NATO countries invaded Iraq on a pack of lies, bomb-paved the road for al-Qaida terrorists from Benghazi to Tripoli, and aimed at war with Iran (a country that invaded nobody in the past 200 years).
While colonialism was looting countries on behalf of respective empires, today’s imperialism is looting the world on behalf of puppet masters without borders, who have no dignity, heart, soul, spine or sanity— of course, in the name of democracy, human rights or the responsibility to protect.
Many of those criminal misadventures escape an average western citizen’s attention as they are cloaked in Joseph Goebbels’ state of the art mainstream media propaganda machine. One of many examples in this short century alone is the bombing, invasion and soft occupation of Mali. Why were they fighting Islamic extremists after the military junta was in trouble with “rebels”? A quick Wikipedia search will uncover one of the reasons: Mali is the third largest exporter of gold in Africa. It also sits on strategic uranium. Another reason is more delicate: Germany asked the French and Americans to return their gold reserves. That seems like a minor issue till you realize that gold was looted already. Many of gold bricks in vaults of Paris, New York, Fort Knox and elsewhere in the West were replaced by tungsten coated with gold. Folks, this is the gold rush, gangster edition.
The U.S. Federal Reserve (in fact, it is private and there is no reserve) refused to be audited for many decades. A few months ago, it “audited” itself. Now it released its “report” — 14 pages altogether, 13 of them containing unrelated garbage. On the last page are its own claimed numbers, and the charade continues.
After bailouts (taxpayers swapping their money for worthless junk), re-colonization of countries sitting on anything worth looting (natural resources, cocoa, strategic location, unwillingness to kowtow) and direct theft (like that on Cyprus deposits), there will be nothing left even for westerners. If not us, then our children will become serfs of imperial barons, personal property will become thing of the past and freedom will be just an empty word in history books. The last thing before dictatorship is the looting of citizens by their own government.
Check any independent website like globalresearch.ca, and listen to Ron Paul, Webster Tarpley or Rodney Shakespeare. Ask your politicians pointed questions, and demand real answers and real solutions. We owe this much to our children, don’t we?
Vladimir Certik believes that thinking outside the box and engaging fellow citizens may bring simple solutions to complex problems. The West Creston resident can be reached at 250-402-0055.