This is an excellent educational or re-learning opportunity offered in this material below. The only problem is there is little to no mention of the banksters, the Rothschilds and their agents, nothing of Communism, Zionism, precious little of Fascism. I can only believe that this is simply because the authors here deal with the results as well as the moving forces behind these "-isms" and their supporters.
Perhaps they just feel, no matter what the motives, the actions still have the same dire results for humanity.
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December 2011
In the face of blatant media disinformation, a "Re-Learning Process" must be launched.
It is our hope that the Interactive Reader Series will become a useful tool for high school, college and university students.
The
military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the
world simultaneously.
The
concept of the “Long War” has characterized US military doctrine since the end
of World War II. The broader objective of global military dominance in support
of an imperial project was first formulated under the Truman administration in
the late 1940s at the outset of the Cold War.
In September 1990, some
five weeks after Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Kuwait, US President and
Commander in Chief George Herbert Walker Bush delivered a historical address to a
joint session of the US Congress and the Senate in which he proclaimed a
New World Order emerging from the rubble of the Berlin Wall and the demise of
the Soviet Union.
Bush Senior had envisaged
a world of "peaceful international co-operation", one which was no
longer locked into the confrontation between competing super powers, under the
shadow of the doctrine of ”Mutually Assured Destruction" (MAD) which
had characterized the Cold War era.
George H Walker Bush
addressed a Joint Session
of the US Congress and the
Senate, September 1990
Bush declared emphatically at the outset of what became known as "the post-Cold War era" that:
“a new partnership of nations has begun, and we stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times... a new world order can emerge: A new era freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, east and west, north and south, can prosper and live in harmony.”
Of course, speeches by
American presidents are often occasions for cynical platitudes and
contradictions that should not be taken at face value. After all, President Bush
was holding forth on international law and justice only months after his
country had invaded Panama in December 1989 causing the deaths of several
thousand citizens ~ committing crimes comparable to what Saddam Hussein would
be accused of and supposedly held to account for. Also in 1991, the US and its
NATO allies went on to unleash, under a “humanitarian” mantle, a protracted war
against Yugoslavia, leading to the destruction, fragmentation and
impoverishment of an entire country.
Nevertheless, it is instructive
to use Bush Senior’s slanted vision of a “New World Order” as a reference point
for how dramatically the world has changed in the intervening 20 years of the
so-called post-Cold War era, and in particular how unilaterally degenerate the
contemporary international conduct of the US has become under the Clinton, G.
W. Bush Junior and Obama administrations.
Bush Senior's
"promise" of world peace has opened up, in the wake of the Cold War,
an age of continuous warfare accompanied by a process of economic dislocation,
social devastation and environmental degradation.
In a bitter irony, this
concept of peaceful international co-operation and partnership was used as a
pretext to unleash The Gulf War, which consisted in "defending the
sovereignty" of Kuwait and “upholding international law” following the
Iraqi 1990 invasion.
GLOBAL
WARFARE
We are dealing with a global military agenda, namely “Global Warfare”. Far from a world of peaceful cooperation, we are living in a dystopian world of permanent wars ~ wars that are being waged in flagrant contravention of international law and against public opinion and interest.
Far from a “new era more
secure in the quest for peace” we may see a world more akin to George Orwell’s
1984, dominated by perpetual conflict, insecurity, authoritarian surveillance,
doublethink and public mind control.
A problem for many citizens is that “doublethink and mind control” have become so deeply embedded and disseminated by the mass media, including the so-called quality free press, such as The New York Times and The Guardian.
THE
POST 9/11 ERA:
AMERICA'S DOCTRINE
OF PRE-EMPTIVE WARFARE
AMERICA'S DOCTRINE
OF PRE-EMPTIVE WARFARE
Allegedly sponsored by Al
Qaeda, the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon played a central
role in molding public opinion. One of the main objectives of war
propaganda is to "fabricate an enemy". The "outside enemy"
personified by Osama bin Laden is "threatening America".
Pre-emptive war directed
against "Islamic terrorists" is required to defend the Homeland.
Realities are turned upside down: America is under attack.
In the wake of 9/11, the
creation of this "outside enemy" served to obfuscate the real
economic and strategic objectives behind the American-led wars in the Middle
East and Central Asia. Waged on the grounds of self-defense, the pre-emptive
war is upheld as a "just war" with a humanitarian mandate.
"The
Outside Enemy" Osama bin Laden,
portrayed by the mainstream
media
From the outset of the Soviet-Afghan war in the early 1980s, the US intelligence apparatus has supported the formation of the "Islamic brigades". Propaganda purports to erase the history of Al Qaeda, drown the truth and "kill the evidence" on how this "outside enemy" was fabricated and transformed into "Enemy Number One".
The US intelligence apparatus
has created its own terrorist organizations. And at the same time, it creates
its own terrorist warnings concerning the terrorist organizations which it has
itself created. Meanwhile, a cohesive multibillion dollar counterterrorism
program "to go after" these terrorist organizations has been put in
place.
Instead of “war” or
“state terrorism”, we are told of “humanitarian intervention” directed against
"terrorists".
Instead of “offence”, we
are told of “defense” or “protection”.
Instead of “mass murder” we are told of “collateral damage”.
Instead of “mass murder” we are told of “collateral damage”.
A good versus evil
dichotomy prevails. The perpetrators of war are presented as the victims.
Public opinion is misled: “We must fight against evil in all its forms as a
means to preserving the Western way of life.”
Breaking the "Big
Lie" which presents war as a humanitarian undertaking, means breaking a
criminal project of global destruction, in which the quest for profit is the
overriding force. This profit-driven military agenda destroys human values and
transforms people into unconscious zombies.
SPAWNING
MILITARISM:
"WAR IS NORMAL"
"WAR IS NORMAL"
In
truth, as this new Interactive Reader from Global Research will demonstrate, we
are living in an era hallmarked by “The Globalization of War” conducted by the
very states that proclaim to be defenders of democratic rights and
international law.
The chief protagonist of
this globalized war is the United States of America. The US, along with its
allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Britain, France,
Canada and Germany among others, as well as an array of proxies ~ such as the
Persian Gulf Arab states ~ is now emboldened to strike militarily in any region
of the world.
It should be noted that
on a tour of the Asia-Pacific region in November 2011, US President Barack
Obama’s rhetoric was laden with bellicose statements towards China, citing the
latter as a military threat to the hemisphere that the United States was ready
to confront.
Obama’s aggressive
rhetoric towards Beijing should have been widely seen as unprecedented and
unacceptable. But from a reading of the Western mainstream media, the
warmongering by the US president was somehow made into normal, reasonable
discourse.
This spawning militarism
is rationalized with a variety of seemingly palatable pretexts: securing the
world against "Islamic terrorism", as in Afghanistan; securing the
world against "weapons of mass destruction", as in Saddam’s Iraq and
currently Iran; defending human rights, as in Libya; humanitarian intervention,
as in Somalia; and protecting small nations, as in confronting China on behalf
of Southeast Asian states, or constructing a Ballistic Missile Defense system
along the Eastern European borders of Russia.
And again, the Western
mainstream media plays a huge role in rationalizing the irrational, normalizing
the abnormal, justifying the unjustifiable ~ akin to the Ministry of Truth in
Orwell’s 1984.
We may accept these
pretexts at face value and attempt to “normalize” a world of seemingly chaotic
conflicts, as the Western mainstream media would have us. Or we can choose to
see the world as it really is, that is, one where such wars and war-making are
correctly understood as abominations of international law and human relations.
It is our objective in
this Interactive Reader to help citizens free themselves from the indoctrinated
doublethink of “wars as normal”. In a global survey, we will show that the US
and its allies are fulfilling an agenda of “full spectrum dominance” in which
no nation deemed to be obstructing that agenda for domination by the US and its
allies is tolerated, and is in fact made a target for war.
The dynamic for
globalized war has deep historical roots in the imperialism of capitalist
governments. Rivalry for the raw materials of capitalist economies and
geopolitical control were at the root of World Wars I and II ~ See the essays
by Jacques Pauwels on the role of corporate America in supporting both Britain and Nazi
Germany. The same impetus lay behind countless invasions and proxy wars in
Latin America, Asia and Africa by the US since World War II under the guise of
“defending the free world from the Evil Soviet Empire”.
But with the collapse of
the Soviet Union as a countervailing power, the US and its allies have become
uninhibited over the past two decades to “go it alone” to assert imperial
dominance. This dynamic has only been reinforced by the economic exhaustion of
the capitalist powers since the onset of the financial crisis of 2008.
Indeed, the rise of
militarism can be seen as a compensatory corollary of their economic demise ~ a
demise that is structural and deeply protracted beyond anything that may be
deemed as the usual “end of business cycle”.
We are perhaps witnessing
an historic collapse in the capitalist system far greater in scope than the
Great Depression. And with that, disturbingly, the rise of militarism takes on
a much greater significance.
Crucial to the global
control of resources are the raw materials of energy: oil and gas.
Whether it is wars in
Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya, or confrontation with Iran, China, Russia and
Venezuela, the fundamental point of contention is control over this lifeblood
of the capitalist economy.
All other espoused
pretexts are mere window dressing, regardless of what the mainstream media
would have us believe.
WORLD
WAR III SCENARIO
The launching of an
outright war using nuclear warheads against Iran ~ which has the world’s third
largest known reserves of oil behind Saudi Arabia and Iraq ~ has been on the
drawing board of the Pentagon since 2005.
If such a war were to be
launched, the entire Middle East/Central Asia region would be drawn into a
conflagration. Humanity would be precipitated into a World War III scenario.
Incredibly, the very real
danger of World War III is not front-page news. The mainstream media has
excluded in-depth analysis and debate on the implications of these war plans.
The onslaught of World
War III, were it to be carried out, would be casually described as a “no-fly
zone”, an operation under NATO’s “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) with minimal
“collateral damage” or as “surgical” punitive bombings against specific
military targets, all of which purport to support “global security” as well as
“democracy” and human rights in the targeted country.
NATO's
"Humanitarian Intervention" Mandate defined in an ICISS report
on R2P
Public opinion is largely unaware of the grave implications of these war plans, which contemplate the use of nuclear weapons, ironically in retaliation to Iran's non-existent nuclear weapons program.
Moreover, 21st Century
military technology combines an array of sophisticated weapons systems whose
destructive power would overshadow the nuclear holocausts of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Lest we forget, the United States is the only country to have used
nuclear weapons against civilians.
Militarization at the
global level is instrumented through the US military’s Unified Command
structure: the entire planet is divided up into geographic Combatant Commands
under the control of the Pentagon. According to former NATO Commander General
Wesley Clark, the Pentagon’s military road-map consists of a sequence of war
theaters:
“[The] five-year campaign plan [includes]... a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.” Like a cancer, the US war unleashed in 2003 on Iraq is mutating into a global disease.
While The New York Times and other
mainstream media outlets hailed 15 December 2011 as marking the “official” end
of the nearly nine-year US war in Iraq, in reality that devastated country will
remain an American war theater for the foreseeable future.
Pentagon military
advisers and contractors will continue to reside there and the people of Iraq
will for generations be left with a legacy of US-imposed conflict and
barbarity. The Pentagon’s “shock and awe” campaign in Iraq may have subsided,
but its repercussions and criminal precedents are still very much extant, not
only in Iraq but in the wider region and, increasingly, globally.
The 2000 Project for the
New American Century (PNAC), which was the backbone of the NeoCons' agenda, was
predicated on “waging a war without borders”. The PNAC's declared objectives
were to “fight and decisively win
multiple, simultaneous major theater wars” in different regions of the
world as well as perform the so-called military “constabulary” duties
“associated with shaping the security environment in critical regions”.
Global constabulary
implies a worldwide process of military policing and interventionism, including
covert operations and “regime change”.
This diabolical military
project formulated by the NeoCons was adopted and implemented from the very
outset of the Obama administration. With a new team of military and foreign
policy advisers, Obama has been far more effective in fostering military
escalation than his White House predecessor, George Bush Junior, who has
recently been condemned by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal for “Crimes
against the Peace”.
This continuum of military agenda testifies to the fact that the two governing parties in the US, Democrat and Republican, are but two sides of a centrally planned military-industrial complex that is impregnable to the opinions, desires and interests of the American electorate.
MILITARY
ESCALATION AND PREVIEW OF THIS BOOK
Contrary to the myth of
“the good war”, we show in this Interactive Reader that the US entry into World
War II was a deliberate strategy for self-serving imperialist gains.
While the men and women
who fought that war may have had moral convictions, the planners in Washington
were operating on calculations of geopolitical control that had little to do
with morals or legal principles ~ see the essays by Jacques Pauwels.
The dropping of atomic
bombs on Japan by the US in August 1945, obliterating hundreds of thousands of
civilians, was an act of heinous barbarity that reflected the callousness of
America's imperial design.
The nuclear holocaust
also set the nefarious parameters of the subsequent Cold War that gripped the
world for nearly five decades following World War II. Essays by Brian Willson,
Alfred McCoy and Michel Chossudovsky illustrate how the Pentagon’s genocidal
wars in Asia were a continuation of America’s imperialist design ~ albeit under
the cover of the Cold War against the Soviet Union.
Hiroshima mushroom cloud.
Hiroshima mushroom cloud.
By executive order of President Harry S. Truman,
the U.S.
dropped the nuclear bomb "Little Boy"
on Hiroshima, Monday,
August 6, 1945
Nagasaki, August 9, 1945
Nagasaki, August 9, 1945
Survivors: August 1945. In the wake of Hiroshima
The fall of the Soviet Union may have brought an end to the Cold War, but soon the US would find new pretexts for waging war on the world and asserting hegemony on behalf of its capitalist allies. These new pretexts included “upholding international law” as in the First Gulf War against Iraq that Bush Senior embarked on in 1990, presaging the Second Gulf War that Bush Junior would reprise in 2003.
And the US planners
innovated the “humanitarian” pretext for the invasion of Somalia in 1991 and
NATO’s war on Yugoslavia ~ see the essay by Sean Gervasi among others.
In many ways, the
“humanitarian war” in Yugoslavia served as the prototype for NATO’s 2011
military attack on Libya and what appears to be an imminent onslaught against
Syria ~ see essays by Rick Rozoff and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya.
To the Pentagon’s silo of
propaganda justifying “wars without borders” we have the additional pretexts of the
“global war on terrorism” and “pre-emptive strikes against weapons of mass
destruction”. Fittingly, as Washington’s wars multiply, so too it seems have
the phony pretexts for these wars, as
the essays on Iraq and Afghanistan by Felicity Arbuthnot and Jack Smith
reveal.
PERMANENT
BELLIGERENCE:
THE GLOBALIZATION OF WAR
THE GLOBALIZATION OF WAR
In Part VII, which also serves as the title of this Online Interactive E-Reader, The Globalization of War, we show how American-led imperialism has evolved from bloody bouts of episodic militarism over several decades to the present day state of permanent belligerence, with wars or war-making stretching from North and East Africa into the Middle East and Central Asia and beyond to Eurasia (Russia), the Far East (China) and Arctic (Russia again) ~ See the essays by James Petras, Rick Rozoff, Peter Dale Scott, F. William Engdahl, Finian Cunningham, the interview with Fidel Castro, Michel Chossudovsky and Jules Dufour.
Of most immediate concern are the ongoing American-led war plans
within the broader Middle East/Central Asian region involving coordinated
actions against Iran, Syria and Pakistan ~ see essays by Michel Chossudovsky,
Tom Burghardt, Rick Rozoff and Mahdi Nazemroaya.
Were these war plans to be carried out, this would lead to an extended regional war theater. The three existing and distinct war theaters (Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine) would merge into a broad regional war extending from the Lebanese-Syrian East Mediterranean coastline to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border with Western China. Israel, Lebanon and Turkey would be engulfed in a conflict that would herald World War III.
BUILDING
AN EFFECTIVE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT
Meanwhile, the antiwar
movement is in crisis: civil society organizations are misinformed, manipulated
or co-opted. A large segment of “progressive” opinion is supportive of NATO’s
R2P “humanitarian” mandate to the extent that these war plans are being carried
out with the “rubber stamp” of civil society.
There is an urgent need
to rebuild the antiwar
movement
on entirely new premises.
The holding of mass
demonstrations and antiwar protests is not enough.
What is required is the development of a broad and well-organized grassroots antiwar network, across the land, nationally and internationally, which challenges the structures of power and authority.
People must mobilize not only against the military agenda ~ the authority of the state and its officials must also be challenged..
Challenging and defeating the US/NATO global war agenda is profoundly predicated on the mass of people in Western countries asserting democratic governance and the genuine “rule of the people”.
It will involve the mass
of people breaking out of the two-party charade that hitherto passes for
“democracy” ~ not only in the US but also in other Western states ~ to form new
political organizations that truly represent the needs and interests of the
majority of people.
War-making, as with
servile abeyance to corporate and financial elites, is endemic to the dominant
political parties. It must be realized that voting for these same parties has
become futile as a means to effect democratic change.
One practical way forward
is for citizens to empower themselves legally. It should be understood that
whatever its justification, war is a “Crime against the Peace” under Nuremberg.
George Walker Bush and
former British Prime Minister Anthony L. Blair have been condemned by the Kuala
Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal for waging a criminal war of aggression against
Iraq. They are war criminals and citizens' initiatives that are growing across
the world for the arraignment of Bush and Blair are one practical step towards
mobilizing a popular challenge to the war system.
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War crimes, however, are not limited to the former US president and British prime minister. There are "New War Criminals on the Block".
They include the current
president of the United States, Barack Obama, among others. The acting heads of
state and heads of government who support US-NATO-Israel wars of aggression are
also war criminals under international law.
This proposition, which
consists in unseating the war criminals in high office, is central to the
waging of an effective antiwar movement.
It is also our intention
to show citizens that the root cause of war lies in the prevailing, but
failing, global capitalist economic system ~ the very system that is not only
destroying lives in foreign countries but which is destroying the material and
moral foundations of Western society.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I. THE HISTORY OF
WAR:
FROM WORLD WAR II TO THE COLD WAR ERA
By Jacques R. Pauwels ~- 2011-12-11
65 years ago, August 6 and 9, 1945: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
By Jacques R. Pauwels ~ 2010-08-06
The unspoken objective of the atomic bomb was US Hegemony in
Asia and the Pacific
By Brian S. Willson ~ 2006-10-12
“Over a period of three years or so we killed off ~ what ~
twenty percent of the population [of North Korea]" (General Curtis Lemay
By Prof. Alfred W. McCoy ~ 2010-04-18
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky ~ 2005-04-26
Vietnam never received war reparations payments from the U.S.
for the massive loss of life and destruction, yet an agreement reached in Paris
in 1993 required Hanoi to recognize the debts of the defunct Saigon regime.
This agreement is in many regards tantamount to obliging Vietnam to compensate
Washington for the costs of war.
PART II.
NATO'S WAR IN THE BALKANS
By Sean Gervasi ` 2010-09-12
The late Sean
Gervasi had tremendous foresight. He understood NATO enlargement several years
before it actually unfolded into a formidable military force
By Prof. Michel
Chossudovsky ~ 2008-02-25
State Terrorism in
Kosovo is an integral part of NATO's design
By James Bissett ~
2010-03-24
PART
III.
THE POST 9/11 ERA:
AMERICA'S "WAR ON TERRORISM"
By Michel
Chossudovsky ~ 2008-01-20
Ironically, Al
Qaeda ~ the "outside enemy of America" ~ is a creation of the CIA.
Revealing the
Lies" on 9/11 Perpetuates the "Big Lie"
By Michel
Chossudovsky ~ 2007-07-12
By Finian
Cunningham ~ 2011-09-11
PART IV.
IRAQ AND THE AF-PAK WARS
By Jack A. Smith ~
2011-10-25
The illusion of
military success...
By Rick Rozoff ~
2011-07-22
By Rick Rozoff ~
2011-03-01
Drone missile
attacks conducted by the CIA killed in the neighborhood of 1,000 people in
Pakistan last
By Felicity
Arbuthnot ~ 2010-08-06
Saddam Hussein
invaded Kuwait. He had walked into possibly the biggest trap in modern history
Year
By Prof. Michel
Chossudovsky ~ 2009-04-17
PART V.
THE
CONQUEST OF AFRICA
US Military
Confirms Washington’s Secret New War in Somalia Despite Official Denials
By Finian
Cunningham ~ 2011-10-29
By Finian
Cunningham ~ 2011-10-26
Introduction by
Cynthia McKinney
By Mahdi Darius
Nazemroaya ~ 2011-10-11
An attempt to
separate the merging point of an Arab and African identity is underway."
By Rick Rozoff ~
2011-05-19
PART VI.
US
NATO-ISRAELI THREATS:
PRE-EMPTIVE WAR AGAINST IRAN AND SYRIA
By Michel
Chossudovsky ~ 2011-12-04
World War III is
not front-page news. The mainstream media has excluded in-depth analysis and
debate on the implications of these war plans
By Rick Rozoff -
2011-11-15
By Rick Rozoff ~2011-11-18
By Tom Burghardt ~
2011-12-05
Amid conflicting
reports that a huge explosion at Iran's uranium conversion facility in Isfahan
occurred last week, speculation was rife that Israel and the US were
stepping-up covert attacks against defense and nuclear installations
By Michel
Chossudovsky - 2011-11-09
By Mahdi Darius
Nazemroaya ~ 2011-06
By Mahdi Darius
Nazemroaya ~ 2011-06-10
PART VII.
THE GLOBALIZATION OF WAR
By Prof. James
Petras ~ 2011-12-10
Obama has embraced
a policy of encirclement and provocations against China, the world’s second
largest economy and the US’s most important creditor, and Russia, the European
Union’s principle oil and gas provider and the world’s second most powerful
nuclear weapons power.
By Fidel Castro
Ruz, Michel Chossudovsky ~ 2010-11-13
If a war breaks out
in Iran, it will inevitably become a nuclear war and a global war
By Prof. Peter Dale
Scott ~ 2009-08-11
The provision of
private entrepreneurial violence and intelligence
By F. William
Engdahl ~ 2011-12-02
Most in the
civilized world are blissfully unaware that we are marching ineluctably towards
an increasingly likely pre-emptive nuclear war
By Rick Rozoff ~
2011-01-30
The U.S. and NATO
have over 150,000 troops planted directly south of three Central Asian nations
By Finian
Cunningham ~ 2011-11-17
China’s “military
advances” are prompting US concerns...Washington is the one beating the war
drums
By Prof. Michel
Chossudovsky ~ 2007-08-20
The Battle for the
Arctic is part of a global military agenda of conquest and territorial control,
a New Cold War between Russia and America.
Review Article: The Worldwide
Network of US Military Bases
The Global
Deployment of US Military Personnel
By Prof. Jules
Dufour ~ 2007-07-01
The Global
Deployment of US Military Personnel
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