US imperialism

Source: The Nation

Former US Secretary of State and foreign policy pundit Henry Kissinger has claimed in an interview that the US military is now considering plans to occupy seven Gulf states. These states include Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman and are home to one of the largest oil reserves in the world. Not only that, he stated that the US has plans to tighten the noose around China and Russia as well. So far as Iran was concerned, he stated that Israel would decimate it by its sheer military strength. From the ashes of the next great war, the US would form the new world order, he warned.

Indeed, as of now the US has more than 700 foreign military bases scattered all over the globe; it has several aircraft carrier fleets cruising the open seas bullying a number of countries. Until a few years ago, its military budget spiked greatly owing to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and stood larger than that of the rest of the world. Indeed, the American foreign policy for the past many decades has largely been influenced by Neocons that is represented on the academic side by Bernard Lewis, Leo Strauss, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfield, former President Bush and others of their kind in American power structure.

Though the Democrats are in power, Pentagon and Capitol Hill still remain under the thumb of such ideologues. That the main thrust of the American foreign policy under such influence is aggression against the world and is manifested by the ongoing war in Afghanistan, drone warfare in Pakistan and the threatening presence of troops in predominantly other Muslim states. Iran and Syria seem likely next targets. Likewise, one reason why it intends to squeeze China and Russia is because of their neutral stand towards Iran and resistance to US hegemony. Recently, Washington brazenly backed Israel in its intimidation of the neighbouring Muslim countries particularly in the 2006 war against Lebanon that resulted in a daylight massacre of innocent men, women and children. These are only some of the facts which chime in with Mr Kissinger's assessment.

Meanwhile, a report in this paper says that the CIA has chalked out a plan to get favourable coverage from Pakistan's media. Under such times when the US is on a crusade to conquer and decimate a number of Muslim countries and its allies like China, we can ill-afford to let our guard down. The CIA intends to counter the popular anger against the war that will further receive an impetus with recent deaths of nine British soldiers. Up until now the Pakistani media has been bravely exposing the US especially with respect to the excesses committed in the war on terror. It is hoped it would continue to watch national interest and would strongly repel CIA's propaganda offensive.

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Comment by Sweettina2 on April 7, 2012 at 6:43am: Right on Ken! I met a guy years ago that built a carburetor than got over 50 mph; He said he was bought out and told to shut up. He said it was preferable to getting bumped off as many have before. A friend on another site drove a water powered car across the states last year...but seemed to have vanished.

You are right, they maintain their monopoly through fear, etc.

Comment by Ken Troxel on April 7, 2012 at 6:26am: The combustion engine is over 100 years old technology. The idea we must create steam to push a crank is even older technology. Is'nt it about time we advanced beyond these archaic modes of kinetic energy? We would be in the jetson age and beyond, right now, had the profitability of old ideas didn't own our governments and energy policy. The present fact is, each year the world spends $14 trillion on carbon fuels, they in turn buy out governments to keep efficiencies and new technology from competing with their monopoly and control of the planet. They maintain this monopoly through fear, intimidation, threats, buyouts & shelving patients or out right murder. There is alternative energy ideas and patents that would making drilling for oil or gas a thing of the past. One such innovator was Stanley Meyers and his HHO or brown gas massive over unity device. He struck upon the idea of sending sound waves into a water electrolysis chamber at over 30,000 MHz that simulated the vibrational energy of water that allowed massive output compared to energy input. Meyers even created a car that could drive coast to coast on 23 gallons of water. He was killed for this invention in late 1980's.