Imperialism as we know it
Duppy conqueror | 22.02.2003 21:46
Imperialism as we know it: the power of a nation state that has mobilized all the resources which new technolgies of production, communication, and death, have endowed it
Imperialism as we know it
What do we do with the United States? The power which stands at the headwater where all the powers of the new technologies of power, communication, energy, are now converging? We are in a sense back in the nineteenth century: read Churchill's account of brave men (Dervishes) dying out on the plain at Omdurman while the handful of the British force and their allies just kept on feeding the machine guns. In a day or so, back in 1898, 11,000 dreams of life and the future were turned into corpses rotting in the heat of the Sudan sun, as against a few dozen on the other side. What do we do with this monster? There are many within it who share our recognition of the carnival of misery which is about to be unleashed. At least 100,000 died in the first gulf war. How many are planned to die now, burnt in their apartments in Baghdad and Basra, others left to starve, their fathers' bodies melting in the heat of thermonuclear charges? I have lived less than forty years on this earth, and in that time I have never felt before this apprehension of such evil about to be done. All my energies each day are seized by the hope that somehow I can stop this holocaust unfolding. I burn, I burn, careless of the eyes in the machine which watch this witness. I burn, I burn, hopeful that the living hearts and minds in that machine might turn against the evil and find in themselves directions towards which they might guide some human end. How do you confront the spector of another Hamburg or Dresden, another Hiroshima? How many bodies must burning on the roads of war before you learn to betray the old lies which have enslaved you? Learn to rebel, my friend, and you know who I am talking to, and you will achieve that greatness of being which when you were younger you hoped would be your aim.
Duppy conqueror
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One World?
22.02.2003 23:39
Iran, Syria and North Korea are next…
But while America dictates who can and cannot possess or even seek WMD’s, they themselves are deploying new ‘bunker-buster’ nukes and violating international treaties on the development of more deadly strains of biological and chemical weapons.
This unfair advantage and imbalance of power will give the US war machine the ability to conquer the known World and impose a military dictatorship under the auspices of the UN. People appear to be dispensable in this grand scheme, as earth, land and sea will become contaminated by the fallout from lethal weapons.
However, the consequences of WWIII will be universal trauma among the displaced and dispossessed survivors. Prepared to accept peace, at any price, the war weary Nations will embrace a system of World Government, bound to enslave them.
If you were wicked beyond measure and ruled the Earth by brute force, what would you do? Reduce populations to a more manageable level by devious methods, ridding yourself of useless, surplus mouths to feed? The remainder could easily be coerced into subservient serfdom and denied basic human rights.
Think about it….
Soul Rebel