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Worldwide militarization is also part of a global economic agenda, namely the application of the neoliberal economic policy model which has led to the impoverishment of large sectors of the World population.
The world is at the crossroads of the most serious crisis in modern history. The US has embarked on a military adventure, “a long war”, which threatens the future of humanity.
This “war without borders” is being carried out at the crossroads of the most serious economic crisis in World history, which has been conducive to the impoverishment of large sectors of the World population.
The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. 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. Worldwide militarization is part of a global economic agenda.
Video of Michel Chossudovsky’s presentation to The Rosa Luxemburg conference.
The event was organized by the German daily “junge Welt”. This year, the Rosa Luxemburg Conference marked the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the First World War.
for the full text including detailed analysis: Imperial Conquest: America’s “Long War” against Humanity, Global Research, January 2014
76 Comments on "Imperial Conquest: America’s Long War Against Humanity"
Makati1 on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 2:39 pm
If you could erase the US since WW2, there would have been almost no wars or terrorists since then. 95+% of the problems in the world today are US caused. It is becoming so obvious that they can no longer hide it. That is why the US is trying so hard to control the internet.
Northwest Resident on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 4:21 pm
The entire history of homo sapiens is written in the blood and suffering that were the inevitable result of conflicts over control of precious resources. In early history, those precious resources were hunting and foraging grounds. These days, those precious resources are oil, or more simply, fossil fuel energy. Throughout human history, the survival and continuance of different tribes/nations has always depended on their ability to fight and win those conflicts — the losers simply disappeared from history. It is all about survival. And so here we are in modern times, and the conflicts are much larger, with a lot more firepower lined up, and with many millions and perhaps billions of lives on the brink of suffering and death. But nations and civilizations are still playing that same old game of survival. America and “the West” appear to be top dog in that long and ongoing war. It isn’t a war against humanity, it is exactly what it has always been — a battle to the death for control of vital resources, for supremacy, for survival. If America and “the West” wasn’t winning this conflict, then some other nation/coalition would be and we would be WISHING that we were winning instead of losing. Life in the real world. God’s creation.
Davy, Hermann, MO on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 4:31 pm
@ Makati said and I modified his blatant exaggeration to read – If you could erase the China, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Vietnam, Sudan, most of Europe, and the Us since WW2, there would have been almost no wars or terrorists since then. 95+% of the problems in the world today are caused by the above. It is becoming so obvious that they can no longer hide it. That is why the above is trying so hard to control the internet.
noobtube on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 4:45 pm
When it comes to blaming everyone else, Americans are first in line (corruption, criminal, oppressive, brutal, dictator, starvation, civil war, rigged elections, etc.)
When it comes to taking credit Americans are first in line and go back for second helpings (freedom, democracy, liberty, developed/civilized/advanced, and on and on).
When it comes time to take responsibility, the first thing Americans try to do is blame someone else and then take credit for not being as bad (well, everyone does it, it’s human nature, Americans are no different, you’re exaggerating, we’re exceptional, it would be worse without the US, the world NEEDS America).
Americans are the biggest scumbags on the planet (only nation to drop nuclear weapons on women and children). And, that is saying something when they are competing with Europe and Australia.
Northwest Resident on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 4:57 pm
noobtube — “biggest scumbags on the planet”
Brilliant analysis, noobtube. I can see that you put a lot of intellect and historical perspective into that phrase. It isn’t as if you yourself are a moron, an irrational hater driven by your own personal demons and anger over past wrongs — nothing like that. No, you are an objective observer. Forget about the fact that North Korea is running concentration camps where their own people are murdered and tortured — Americans are much bigger scumbags than that. Forget about China and Germany and Russia that in just recent history murdered millions of innocents — Americans are much bigger scumbags than that. Forget about all those jihadic hotheads who’ve known nothing but hate and anger their whole lives and blow themselves up along with as many innocent people as they can, all to get a bunch of underage virgins — they are pure gold next to scumbag Americans.
noobtube, I’ll never consider you a serious or intelligent person ever again after reading your post. You just proved to me that YOU are scum of the earth.
Davy, Hermann, MO on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 5:26 pm
Noobtube it is not even worth discussing your characterizations. It is a pity because you could have made a good point about Human nature in general and about most politicians throughout the world currently. Instead you chose to be excessively subjective and blatantly exaggerated to demonstrate your displeasure with America. You are just like a few other on this site that show intellectual adolescence. You all are capable of decent ideas but your hormones get in the way.
action on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 6:36 pm
@NWR
USA! USA! lol
Northwest Resident on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 7:04 pm
action — Not so much USA! USA! as:
This is a website devoted to peak oil and related issues — it isn’t a site where people who despise America and Americans should be posting their lunatic rage and loathsome name-calling crap. There are probably other, more on-topic websites dedicated to that purpose, and I’m sure that Noobtube’s brilliant observations and opinions of Americans will be most welcome on those sites. If Noobtube wants to stay on topic and discuss facts or opinions related to America’s supposed “long war against humanity”, then let’s hear it, but leave the cheap-shot tasteless name-calling and overly broad characterizations of “Americans” out of it.
FarQ3 on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 8:13 pm
I’m Australian and I like Americans, most of my experience tells me they are lovely people. I have a few American friends including some on this site. I’m not always in favour of what their government does, there is a substancial undertow of corruption that the people are indoctrinated to follow. Same here in Australia.
The people of western nations are being hoodwinked and ripped off by huge organisations and their elected officials have been bought by the 1% that also own the media.
‘War For Profit’
noobtube on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 8:36 pm
Typical….
what do Americans do?
Blame everyone else, deflect, deny, and accuse.
Why are Americans so cowardly when it comes to taking responsibility to all the damage they have done to this Earth?
This is precisely why the world is in the predicament it is today, with peak oil, wars everywhere, ecological destruction, nuclear waste, invasions, terror, pollution… it will never end as long as Americans and their worthless dollars are clogging up the planet.
The Earth needs a break from Americans. Because they are suffocating every and anything with their undeserved sense of entitlement and their ungrateful attitudes.
No matter how much you give an American (food, oil, land, energy), they are NEVER thankful.
When was the last time an American ever thanked anyone for the comfortable lifestlyles they enjoy? They don’t thank Africa. They don’t thank the Middle East. They don’t thank China.
Nope. The American attitude is I “earned” it. I “deserve” it. I don’t care about you. ME ME ME!
Look no further than Americans to understand why the world is dysfunctional.
ghung on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 8:40 pm
Jeez, Noob, since Americans are all the same, the Devil incarnate, what would your solution be?
Davey on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 8:45 pm
Awe G, let him alone he surely has mental issues. Probably Uncle Sam nightmares. Might have ate a bad apple pie or nearly overdosed on coke a cola. Maybe his ex American girlfriend dumped him
Northwest Resident on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 9:01 pm
noobtube — “Why are Americans so cowardly when it comes to taking responsibility to all the damage they have done to this Earth?”
Which Americans are you talking about, noobtube? Not me, that is for sure, as I regularly express regrets about the damage being done and advocate radical solutions to save the natural world we inhabit from further destruction. There are millions of other Americans including quite a few on this site who believe very similar to what I believe in regards to the environment, but you insult us all by lumping all Americans together as if we are all cloned offspring of the same devil.
If you want to hate an entire nation for destroying the environment, why not focus your absurdly illogical rage on China instead? Or at least include them in your spite-filled rants? And what about those capitalists down in South America who are mowing down the rain forests to enrich themselves further — surely they deserve some of your intense hatred and verbal spite?
You make a sad spectacle out of yourself by focusing all your hate on Americans, as if we are all individually to blame for the evils you perceive in the world, when that is so clearly not the case. It is easier to pity you for your repressed rage and total ignorance than it is to respect you or your opinions — much easier.
action on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 9:14 pm
Noob,
Focus your anger on stupid people, they transcend nationality and there’s about 6 billion too many of them.
Steve on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 9:42 pm
300,000,000+ of us. There’s bound to be a few good men. I’m happy to hear, anecdotally, that a few have been identified. The trouble here is our MIC, leaders, and their corporate controllers. A good read: http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780525950158
noobtube on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 9:59 pm
A few good people is not going to stop the collective stupidity and cowardice of hundreds of millions of useful idiots in the United States.
They just refuse to take any responsibility for their behavior.
That is the American way. Blame the Native tribes. Blame the immigrants. Blame the Africans. Blame the Communists. Blame the drug dealers. Blame the terrorists.
Americans HATE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY but Americans LOVE TO BLAME OTHERS.
That is a coward and the United States is a nation of cowards.
Why else do you have this fascination with guns? Why else do you have all this violence?
Until the world can free itself of the American curse, nothing is safe.
rollin on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 10:15 pm
NobbyTubby lost all credibility today. Tough to get back once it’s gone.
Probably from one of those countries that the US pulled out of the fire twice last century at great cost to itself. They forget so quickly.
noobtube on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 10:58 pm
The American Way of Life is not negotiable. – President George W. Bush, 1992.
Deficits don’t matter. – Vice-President Dick Cheney, 2002.
These are the kinds of leaders Americans want. Americans don’t want reality. Americans want a Disneyland, with lots of free stuff, and everyone talking about how great they are.
Americans want and live in a fantasy world, where only they are the good guys in a world full of evil.
That makes Americans a danger and threat, not only to themselves, but to every living thing on this planet.
ghung on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 11:04 pm
“Until the world can free itself of the American curse, nothing is safe.”
Again, noob, what’s the plan? Continue whining? And where can I move to be among a perfect population?
Northwest Resident on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 11:16 pm
noobtube — It must suck to live in your world. You obviously don’t relate well to facts, so I give up. Please, continue ranting until you get it all out — whatever it takes to make you feel better, noob. Someday, please visit the real world and America, you’ll see that we aren’t all clones of each other and hold diverse views and cover all spectrums of the good-to-evil scale — just like everywhere else on planet earth.
noobtube on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 11:24 pm
Isn’t this whole website nothing but whining with very few willing to actually do anything.
I like this website because it gives good information.
Most of the commenters here just do what Americans love to do… talk talk talk… while blaming everyone and everything but themselves, patting themselves on the back, as they drive in 2-ton rolling garbage cans, 2 miles to get 10 pounds of food, and doing nothing to change their ridiculous lifestyles to which they feel entitled (or “earned”)..
Instead of asking what the plan is, what are you actually DOING to make the world a better place (or at least not as bad a place as Americans normally do)?
You know the problem, so what are you doing?
A few have made major life decisions and are walking the walk, so they can talk the talk. But the rest are just typical American finger-pointers.
Nony on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 11:38 pm
“God protects fools, drunks, and the United States of America”
-Otto van Bismark, 28 January 1886
IOW, are GOD’S COUNTRY, Noob! Now do you understand?
MSN fanboy on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 12:22 am
You say “it all Americas fault” yet there are Empires throughout history that act the same (imperially speaking)
Point is, if not America, Who else?
Noobtube, if America ceased to exist (somehow 1900) how can you prove another nation wouldn’t act in such a belligerent way?????
“Americans love to do… talk talk talk…”
As opposed to kill kill kill ? Wait isn’t this oxymoronic to your straw man fallacy…
“drive in 2-ton rolling garbage cans, 2 miles to get 10 pounds of food, and doing nothing to change their ridiculous lifestyles to which they feel entitled (or “earned”)..”
So, noobtube, given the same culture, you honestly wouldn’t do the same???
Listen to Depeche mode ‘in my shoes’ song and youll get the idea.
“But the rest are just typical American finger-pointers. So you characterise all Americans under one banner…
In your judgement you betray your true self, you believe you are superior to Americans to judge “them” compared to “you”, the Americans aren’t good etc…
“LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE”
Noobtube… were all equal, with different life chances and culture, but we are equal and thus shouldn’t judge.
That is a self-evident fact.
In the end I guess you should keep your objective assumptions to your yourself, as you placate Agrippa’s Trilemma.
You have no objective basis. You are the same. (Even though from the hate im guessing considerably materially poorer who ironically points the finger and blames American… another fallacy in your logic.)
ghung on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 12:24 am
Yeah, noob, I got my wife to stop watching The Bachelor and Real Houswives…. That has to count for something. I’ve also led a local Don’t Feed The Beast drive. Next week’s lesson is how not to feed trolls, but I tend to make exceptions. If you pay attention you’ll find many here who have made non-mainstream choices in their lives and are nothing like the people in your mythological view of all Americans. They also have the character to not paint whole populations with a very broad brush, as you have.
Personally, my only recurring support of corporate America is this DSL line, insurance, and a credit union account; no stocks, no credit cards or debt, no mortgage, no power company, no water/sewer company, no cell phone, no club memberships, no facebook or twitter, no vacations, no political affiliations or party, no church. Never voted for any of the people you mentioned.
We do have four dogs and a cat. I used to drive 110 miles a day commute; now driving about 25 miles a week (don’t blame me for the US not using the metric system; we tried). Looking for a PV-charged electric – have the panels. We’re quite rural, so a car is a must until they make horses legal on the highway. Where we live, bikes aren’t a full-time option. No mass transit. Producing a lot of our own food and living on a very moderate income. Oh, I have a library card and go to Walmart for staples a few time a year. I do call my fellow Americans on their bullshit whenever I think it’ll do any good. That hasn’t made me particularly popular, but it’s a good filter of who I prefer to be associated with.
Any suggestions you have would be taken under consideration. Ideas that involve shooting at people or getting shot at will be rejected.
Davey on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 12:46 am
Hey noob, buck up and tell us where you are from so we can trash your country and entire population and culture.
Btw I practice relative sacrifice. I am helping anyone with interest in being more resilient, sustainable, and efficient. I constantly am aware of my consumptions. I treat nature with respect, I am egalitarian, and look for balance in politics. I have my weaknesses but who doesn’t. It is easy to complain much harder to live what you complain about!
Nony on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 12:53 am
I think either:
1. We kicked his ass too hard.
2. He is in a Euro time zone, sleeping like a baby.
3. one and two
🙂
Davey on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 12:57 am
Or nony he might be nursing his local brand of swill.
Nony on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 1:36 am
I would never do that (lie lie) 😉
Makati1 on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 1:48 am
@noobtube, you smashed some delicate toes with your comments. Good for you. You proved your point. I am a 14th generation American, and I agree with you. America bashing is not in fashion with the flag waving sheeple of the 50 states. Sometimes the obvious is rigorously denied to protect their rosy picture of the world. Reality is not part of it.
I said that the West is to blame, and I am correct. Maybe I should have gone back a few hundred years and included the European colonization of most of the world as they too caused most of the problems over the centuries. American, being of that lineage, continued the idea of colonization. Plunder is a western idea that Japan caught in the early 1900s. No other country maintains hundreds of military bases in most countries of the world. The last country that did that was Rome.
If you look at the map, even today many countries are ‘colonies’ of the West. The excuse is ‘democracy’, but true democracy does not exist anywhere on this planet and least of all in the USA. That is the excuse, not the reason for war. Force a country to it’s knees in the name of democracy. Depose a democratically elected leader because he/she does not side with you, is the the current Western method of empire.
We reap what we sew…
Nony on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 1:51 am
Sow, not sew. Read your Bible.
Davy, Hermann, MO on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 1:59 am
Blame and complain Makati our official USA bad mouth has awaken to spew his usual American misinformation
DC on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 3:37 am
What is so hard to understand, amerika *is* waging war, against humanity, the earth itself, even its own people. That much is plain to see. Why do we have a peak oil problem now? Because the bulk of the Earths endowment of oil went up and out the tailpipes of amerikas primitive 5000 pound grocery fetchers AND its brutual corporate military. That too, is a fact. However, in the interests of ‘balance’, most of the anglo-sphere countries did their part to help bleed the earth dry too, and often provided tacit support for amerikas resource wars and theft. So, there is *some* blame to spread around, true enough. But again, those are proximate causes, not ultimate one. The ultimate cause, is spelled out quite clearly enough in the GR article.
If I want to know where all this oil has\is\and will go, all I have to do is look outside the window and see all the amerikan made trash cans in the parking lot. See people take them on 30 mile drives to buy items that weigh 12oz. Watch.Watch them fillerup at amerikan controlled gas stations. Or look around at all energy sucking amerikan style ‘detached’ houses, that have filled this valley I live in(and the rest of the country) to almost over-flowing, or look at all my fellow citizens buying plastic garbage from Wall-Mart, Target and Costco. Or listen to my parents parrot uS propaganda talking points from watching idiotic ‘news’ like CNN. Or a ‘gov’t’ that works solely for amerikan oil corporations stripe-mining my country.
I know some of you(amerikans),dont like to hear any of this, sorry. But its a tangible everyday reality. Not some abstract, ephemeral notion I or others around me have. Now, as we speak, amerikas corporate war-machine is trying to ignite the next war(and world war) in Europe over its clumsy and transparent regime change in Ukraine. If they succeed, and if they dont, it wont be lack of trying, peak oil will be least of worries.
Can we can agree on that much at least?
ghung on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 4:07 am
Noob, Makati, DC – I ask again; what’s your point? You come to a site where most Americans here already understand these things better than you do and you never say what you want. Nothing constructive at all. Perhaps you’ll get more satisfaction beating your dog or something.
I, for one, won’t sell everything I have and send the proceeds to the country of your choice as restitution or go hang myself in shame. One thing’s for sure; you’re stuck with your anger and resentment. It’s a helluva way to waste a life, and won’t change a thing. Maybe you’re just using America as an excuse to not make positive changes in your own little part of the world.
Northwest Resident on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 4:21 am
I don’t understand how somebody who grew up and spent their life in America could hate America so much. It must have been a bitter experience for those individuals. As for me, I recognize the numerous faults in American government and deeply embedded in so many of my fellow citizens, but I don’t have hatred for them. I guess I’ve had a pretty good life in America, full of fond memories, lots of ups and downs, victimized at time by the laws and my ass saved at other times by the laws. I look in non-Western countries and what I understand about most of them and their cultures is that due to their culture and their own inherent evils, they never stood a chance of growing into anything more than a bigger mess than they already are. Major evils are perpetrated all around the world. America has its faults, but it has always promoted the best ideals that humanity has recognized, and has spent billion/trillions of its wealth and many thousands of its young lives to uphold those ideals. People who waste their time hating America or anything are just plain miserable, warped by their own bitter experiences, never able to overcome the past that has led them to such an anger and hate filled life. America and the West grew bigger, stronger and more powerful than other nations/civilizations, like superior bacteria in a petri dish they consumed the energy faster and more efficiently, they dominated. It has been the human experience. Hate America and Americans if you want, but stop for a minute to look around at all the evil being perpetrated in the world, and you’ll see that Americans are involved in very little of that evil, and instead are spending their lives and their wealth to try and make things better — even if they have to squash a few bugs in the process who might otherwise have not necessarily deserved it. Se la vi.
Northwest Resident on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 5:15 am
“…even if they have to squash a few bugs in the process who might otherwise have not necessarily deserved it. Se la vi.”
The problem with writing things quickly, in between other tasks, is that sometimes things don’t come out right. That is the case with that above statement, which was meant to be in a joking vein, but comes across as a little on the cold side now that I read it again. What I should have said and what I really meant is, “even if there is the unfortunate occurrence of collateral damage in all too many cases. Se la vi.”
Makati1 on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 5:20 am
NWR, you cannot say what may have been the future of the many countries plundered as colonies of the West over the centuries. Certainly they never had a chance to advance under the heavy boot of oppression and plunder. Give China the oil wealth the US enjoyed last century and, who knows, you might be speaking Mandarin now and loving it. After all, there are many cultures older then Europe by millenia. Only the US has the culture of war as their basis. It was founded on death and has existed since 1776 on the back of death.
And, yes, I grew up in the US and enjoyed it’s ‘fruits’. I had a very good life. I was also kept in ignorance by my masters so I would not realize that my ‘fruit’ was grown in the blood of the 3rd world. Now I can see it and I am sorry to be an American. It is no longer something to be proud of. We have been the plague on the world for a long time. The banquet of consequence is going to be terrible for America and it will be deserved. We have become a fat, lazy, greedy people.
The evil in the world is mostly caused by the CIA/military of the US and it’s world domination goals. Nothing more. Nothing less. The Middle East is not, and never was, a threat to mainland America, yet we have invaded and killed millions in the name of greed. Nigeria is not a threat but we are there too, and Syria, and Libya, and on and on…
Northwest Resident on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 5:51 am
Makati, please allow me to disagree with a couple of your statements.
“Give China the oil wealth the US enjoyed last century and, who knows, you might be speaking Mandarin now and loving it.”
China had a chance to be the first to harness fossil fuel energy and to convert it to industry. But they didn’t. And no other civilization harnessed fossil fuel energy first. The West did. Nothing will change that reality. It is pointless to speculate about what China or any other country might have done if they had been the first — there is no way to know. Let’s just stick to reality and leave “the way it might have been” to daydreams.
“Only the US has the culture of war as their basis. It was founded on death and has existed since 1776 on the back of death.”
Makati, there have been so many “cultures of war” in human history that they can’t possibly be counted. You must be forgetting about Attila the Hun, Alexander the Great, Hitler, Stalin, all those Chinese emperors, all the Roman rulers, the Egyptians, etc… The list of “cultures of war” in human history is endless, and very colorful. All human civilizations of any note have always fought wars and perpetrated violence to gain control over valuable resources — all of them, otherwise they quickly disappeared and we never heard about them because they were inconsequential, they were the losers. It is all about survival. And still is.
I find your hatred of America and your obvious wish to see America consumed by violent retribution to be kind of sick, to be honest. Its pretty obvious that you dwell on it. Your hatred of America and anger toward Americans just seems a little unhealthy. But I’ll agree with you that there are certainly a lot of really messed up Americans these days — though I’m sure that goes for everywhere else in the world too. Definitely that is the case in the Philippines where you live, don’t try to deny it.
GregT on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 6:53 am
I find it quite interesting that almost every forum that I visit, sooner or later erupts into an ‘Americans are the greatest vs Americans are the worst ‘discussion’, and those forums that don’t, seem to always erupt into the same old Republican vs Democrat idiocy.
I wonder why that is?
The world isn’t black and white, and it is definitely far more than 256 shades of grey. Why are people so unable to figure that out?
DC on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 7:02 am
I am glad you amended ‘squash’ to ‘collateral damage’ there NWR. That sounds so much better than millions, tens of millions?
But you know what, your right. We shouldnt give amerika such a hard time. See no evil-hear no evil is the best way! ‘Collateral damage’ IS a small price to pay for mega-malls and the amerikan dream. Who are we,after all, to comment on such a self-evident truth?…..
Arthur on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 1:19 pm
Michel Chossudovsky, the voice of the fossilized North-American left, is attacking the US on a Rosa Luxembourg meeting. For ethnic reasons, crypto communist Chossudovsky leaves essential little facts out about present day America and it’s power structure and suggests that ‘evil Americans’ are responsible, where in reality Americans are extremely passive and are all the misdeeds planned in shady backrooms in Washington and London. My loyal but not necessarily sympathetic to me readers will get my point. In fact the only difference between Chossudovsky and the neocon’s ruling Washington today, is in the methods they want to apply to achieve global empire, the latter not necessarily run by ‘Americans’ (whatever being an ‘American’ may mean in 2014), but by somebody else, hint, hint. Here Chossudovsky and the neocons would wholeheartedly agree. Their common ideologue is Leon Trotzky, the towering ideological figure of the present day Rothschildt-Goldman-Sachs empire, a.k.a. the West.
I am not going to chime in into America-bashing, because I already know they lost the fight. They have made nothing but mistakes ever since 2003, a clear sign that the US is on the descending trajectory. Instead I prefer to think of what is coming after the fall of the $-empire: regime change in both the US and Europe. If the US and their EU satraps are really going to push for conflict, this will backfire enormously. But I am not so sure if this is going to happen. Not even the British want sanctions, simply because they are too dependent on Russian fuel. Putin holds all the cards and he knows it. He already announced that he will dump the dollar (very likely in close cooperation with China) and stop servicing his (modest) debt. No doubt the Chinese will support Russia by absorbing the Russian fossil fuel supply, previously intended for Europe, at the expense of US Arabian ‘allies’. In the upcoming referendum the Crimeans will vote overwhelmingly for Russia, that’s a done deal. If a war in Ukraine proper can be avoided, it is difficult so see what the West can do, basically nothing. And than there is SCO ally Iran, that could sabotage any export of fuel from the Gulf. Regardless of how much the US would bomb Iran, Iranians can always launch missiles from mobile trucks to sink 2-3 tankers, enough.
The prototypical 1968-hippie hag with nukes Hillary Clinton, surprise, surprise, compared Putin with Hitler, and she is entirely correct, but she forgets to mention that 2014-America is playing exactly the same role as in 1939. Putin IS the new Hitler (because of his opposition to the projected kosher global empire, NWO), albeit with much, much better geopolitical cards. Where Hitler walked into the trap of WW2, prepared for him by Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill, when he tried to get his Danzig back, today the West tries to get Putin embroiled in WW3 over the Ukraine/Crimea. But where 1939-Germany merely had useless allies from hell (Italy and Japan), Russia has China (and Iran, European nationalists and American constitutionalists).That’s a winning hand of cards.
Davey on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 2:17 pm
Arthur read the financial news China and Russia are definitely facing serious economic issues. I don’t mind balanced negative American news but I will not buy into the group here who promote negative American news as propaganda for an agenda. You are insulting some of us here. You bring good points to the table but then soil them with exaggeration and often misinformation. The same is true for DC and Makati, and a few less regular visitors
Arthur on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 2:55 pm
Davey, could you please point out where I am (unintended I assure you) ‘insulting’ or wrong?
Davey on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 3:13 pm
Arthur your post are well supported and seldom wrong. The point is a little balance and moderation would make the points more pallatable. For example bash the other guys on occasion. There are many Americans here who understand our failing and sins that are a product of being a powerful country but there is much more to America. A steady diet of being told we are jerks gets old
jimmy on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 3:34 pm
This whole conversation is just stupid. Nootube DC and Makati should just be ignored. They remind me of my crazy uncle who is always trying to argue nonsense and would never give up and never shut up. He was an illiterate know it all and so are these guys.
Northwest Resident on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 3:57 pm
DC — “That sounds so much better than millions, tens of millions?”
Hey, DC, tell me how where and when America has been responsible for “millions, tens of millions” of collateral damage deaths. Prove you point with some facts or just admit you make sh*t up.
If you want “millions, tens of millions” of deaths due to government atrocities, you’ll have to look at other countries in the world. But I know that is difficult for you to do because it doesn’t resonate with your hate America persona. Facts suck sometimes, don’t they DC?
Arthur on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 4:26 pm
A steady diet of being told we are jerks gets old
Where do I say that Americans are jerks?
How often do I need to repeat that I want to see the Trans-Atlantic relationship continued into the future, after the coming crash of the globalist West? My enemy is the ‘Straussian elite’ running Washington and their European lapdogs, not ordinary Americans. Since more than a decade Putin is the politician I most admire, Ron Paul comes as a good second. The last European politicians I admired were de Gaulle, Adenauer, Kohl and Schmidt. The bunch that runs the EU today is too painful to look at.
noobtube on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 5:27 pm
The American empire: denial, delusion & deception
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh-D5LJzrX8
The title is quite appropriate, given some of the responses.
Northwest Resident on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 5:45 pm
noobtube — After checking out the video…
So, if it is just 40% or so of the American people that are deluded, why are you directing your hate at all Americans? They guy giving the lecture is an American. Do you hate him too?
Americans on the whole aren’t as much deluded as they are totally misinformed by the powerful media that they are subjected to. They are victimized by the corporate and other powerful forces that pump the lies and propaganda into their puny little brains. Why waste time hating all the American people when it is so clearly certain powerful vested interests that are so much more deserving of your hate and spite?
Arthur on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 8:21 pm
Dennis Kucinich saying the right things to Bill O’Reilly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKqPwGTjDlY
GregT on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 10:27 pm
Kucinich speaks the truth, unfortunately most people in the US, AND Canada, are already too brainwashed to listen.