Rogue State America

Rogue State America

By Stephen Lendman

Oxford Dictionaries call rogue states "nation(s) or state(s) regarded as breaking international law and posing a threat to the security of other nations." They're authoritarian or despotic and ruthless. They stop at nothing to achieve aims. They spurn human and civil rights. They possess weapons of mass destruction. They sponsor state terrorism. William Blum's done some of the best research. His books include "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower." He documented how from 1945 through 2005, America tried or succeeded in toppling over 40 governments. It crushed dozens of popular movements. It slaughtered millions of people doing so. It condemned countless others to immiseration, agony and despair. According to Blum, US policies are "worse than you imagine." "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy (throughout) the past century, this is what crawls out:" "invasions, bombings, (subversion), overthrowing governments, suppressing (popular) movements for social change, assassinating political leaders, perverting elections, manipulating labor unions, manufacturing 'news,' death squads, torture, (chemical), biological (and nuclear) warfare, (radiological contamination), drug trafficking, mercenaries," police state repression, and war on humanity writ large. "It’s not a pretty picture," said Blum. "It is enough to give imperialism a bad name." Bullies make more enemies than friends. America's the unchallenged world champion. It intimidates, threatens, and otherwise pressures other nations to comply with its will. Obey or else is policy. It's waging longstanding war on humanity. It risks mass annihilation. It doesn't matter. Unchallenged global dominance alone counts. Rogue states operate that way. America's by far the worst. It targets independent governments. It wants pro-Western puppet regimes replacing them. It wants control of the world's resources. It wants ordinary people exploited as serfs. It mocks democratic values. It spurns rule of law principles. It enforces its will through the barrel of a gun. It does so in other nefarious ways. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was en route to China. He was forced to fly an alternative route. Obama denied him permission to overfly Puerto Rican airspace. The island state's a longtime US colony. Puerto Ricans are denied independence. Since 1898, America controlled their lives. In 1981, Puerto Rican Independentistas convicted of "seditious conspiracy" said the following: "Our position remains clear: Puerto Rico is a nation intervened, militarily conquered and colonized by the United States." We are prisoners of war captured by the enemy. Our actions have always been and continue to be in the nature of fighting a war of independence, a war of national liberation." "The US interventionist government has absolutely no right, no say so whatsoever in regards to Puerto Rico, ourselves, or any Puerto Rican prisoner of war." "The US interventionist government has only one choice....and that is to GET OUT!" "It is our right to regain and secure our national sovereignty. Nothing will stand in the way of achieving our goal." Their struggle continues. Even foreign leaders are affected. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua denounced what he called "an act of aggression." "We have received information from American officials that we have been denied travel over its airspace," he said. “We denounce this as yet another aggression on the part of North American imperialism against the government of the Bolivarian Republic." "No one can deny airspace to a plane carrying a president on an international state visit." "(N)o valid argument" permits preventing legitimate travel through American airspace. Rogue states make their own rules. Maduro scheduled weekend talks in Beijing. On April 14, Venezuelans elected him president. He won fair and square. Jimmy Carter calls Venezuela's electoral process the world's best. Obama hasn't recognized Maduro's legitimacy. It doesn't surprise. He treats real democratic leaders with derision. He targets them for removal. Destabilizing Venezuela is longstanding US policy. Hugo Chavez experienced the worst of it. Throughout his tenure, he was America's main hemispheric bete noire. He represented the threat of a good example. He's gone. Chavismo lives. Washington's war on Venezuela continues. It's the oil, stupid. Venezuela has the world's largest reserves. It's also for unchallenged global dominance. No holds barred tactics persist to achieve it. America's Caracas embassy is a hotbed of anti-Chavismo subversion. CIA operatives infest it. Neither country has ambassadorial-level relations. Denying Maduro Puerto Rican air space rights won't help things. It followed earlier hostile US acts. In July, Maduro called Obama's UN envoy nominee Samantha Power's comments "despicable." During Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony, she discussed what she called a "crackdown on civil society being carried out in countries like Cuba, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela." "Power says she'll fight repression in Venezuela," asked Maduro? "What repression?" "There is repression in the United States, where they kill African-Americans with impunity, and where they hunt the youngster Edward Snowden just for telling the truth." "And the US government says they want to have good relations? What tremendous relations do they want?" Maduro demanded an apology. It didn't follow. Obama answered his way. Rogue state bullying is longstanding US policy. Obama exceeds the worst of his predecessors. He governs by diktat. He heads America's Murder, Inc. agenda. He prioritizes targeted assassinations worldwide. He authorized killing US citizens abroad. He pronounces guilt by accusation. He deployed special forces death squads globally. They operate covertly in 120 or more countries. He runs the world's largest gulag. It operates at home and abroad. Thousands of political prisoners languish inside. Guantanamo's the tip of the iceberg. Supermax prisons are its domestic equivalent. Brutalizing longterm isolation turns ordinary inmates into zombies.  Obama claims a divine right to detain anyone indefinitely. He does so uncharged and untried. He does it for any reason or none at all. Rogue leaders operate that way. Obama's by far the worst. Laws are made to be obeyed. Obama spurns them. He does so with impunity. He targets anyone challenging US imperial power. In July, he got France, Spain and Portugal to deny Evo Morales air space rights. Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca said doing so "put at risk the life of the president." Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia said Morales was "kidnapped by imperialism." He blamed EU complicity with Washington. Defense Minister Ruben Saavedra added: "This is a hostile act by the United States State Department which has used various European governments." Morales was returning home from Moscow. He attended a Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF). Washington suspected he had Edward Snowden aboard. Morales said he's "ready to give political asylum to people who expose spying activities. If we receive a request, we are willing to consider it." He hasn't changed his mind. On September 20, Press TV headlined "Bolivia plans legal action against Obama over 'crimes against humanity.' " He's doing so after denying Maduro air space rights. At a Santa Cruz press conference, he said: "I would like to announce that we are preparing a lawsuit against Barack Obama to condemn him for crimes against humanity." "The US cannot be allowed to continue with its policy of intimidation and blockading presidential flights." In solidarity with Venezuela, he's suing in the International Criminal Court (ICC). He called an emergency Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) meeting. Discussion will focus on what Venezuela calls "an act of intimidation by North American imperialism." Morales called on CELAC members to recall their Washington ambassadors. He urged Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas member states to boycott the upcoming UN meeting. Maduro raised another issue. Washington set conditions on granting Venezuelan General Wilmer Barrientos visa permission to attend next week's General Assembly session. "They want to put conditions, if we decide to go to New York. They don't want to give a visa to my minister," said Maduro. He told Foreign Minister Elias Jaua to "activate all mechanisms" regarding the visa dispute. "US, you are not the UN's owner. The UN will have to move out  of New York," Maduro added. He warned he's prepared to take "the most drastic measures necessary" to ensure Venezuelan sovereignty. "Do we want to go as tourists? We're going to the United Nations. You're obligated to give visas to all the delegation," he stressed. Note: Late word suggests Washington rescinded its Puerto Rican air space denial. According to State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf, Venezuela improperly requested permission. Saying so doesn't wash. She claimed Caracas gave one day's notice. Three are required, she said. "Additionally, the plane in question was not a state aircraft, which is required for a diplomatic clearance," she added. "Although the request was not properly submitted, US authorities worked with Venezuelan officials at the Venezuelan Embassy to resolve the issue." "US authorities made an extraordinary effort to work with relevant authorities to grant overflight approval in a matter of hours." These type 11th hour comments ring hollow. Denying a head of state air passage rights lacks legitimacy. It does so under virtually all circumstances. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has her own bone to pick. Documents Snowden revealed show NSA spies on her lawlessly. It monitors her phone calls, emails, and cell phone messages relating to key advisors. In response, she denounced what she called "impermissible and unacceptable." She cancelled a planned state visit. State owned Petrobras (PBR) is also targeted. At stake is giving big US oil giants a competitive advantage. According to the Financial Times, PBR intends spending $9.5 billion in the next five years for improved security. President Maria das Gracas Foster announced it, saying: "This is a policy that is so important it has been personally approved by the board of directors." "The management of our goods, people, information and the wealth we create is of crucial importance." At stake is much more than security. Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo said Brazil intends requiring all data exchanges based in Brazil to include locally produced equipment. Doing so will adversely impact major US suppliers. Online companies Google, Yahoo, Facebook and others are affected. New mandates require internal servers for all data involving Brazilians. Its privacy laws will have to be obeyed. In mid-September, Brazil and Argentina approved a broader military cooperation agreement. It calls for improved cyber defense capabilities. It does so after Snowden's revelations. Under Obama, America more than ever is a global menace. Imperial madness threatens world peace. Out-of-control US policy is arrogant, misguided, and destructive. It combines state terror with war on humanity. It does so despite no enemies. It invents them out of whole cloth. It pursues unchallenged global dominance. It bears repeating. It risks WW III. It risks mass annihilation. It risks what no responsible leader should dare. Rogue states operate that way. America's by far the worst. Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity." http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanII.html Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network. It airs Fridays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening. http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour http://www.dailycensored.com/rogue-state-america/

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Obama and the age of permanent war

Obama and the age of permanent war

Welcome to World-Wide War

By John Pilger

The US military is operating in a theatre extending from Pakistan to the Horn of Africa Here is news of the Third World War. The United States has invaded Africa. US troops have entered Somalia, extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and now the Horn of Africa. In preparation for an attack on Iran, “bunker-buster” bombs are said to be arriving at the US base on the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. In Gaza, the sick and abandoned population, mostly children, is being entombed behind underground American-supplied walls to reinforce a criminal siege. In Latin America, the Obama administration has secured seven bases in Colombia from which to wage a war of attrition against the popular democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay. Meanwhile, the secretary of “defence”, Robert Gates, complains that “the general [European] public and the political class” are so opposed to war, they are an “impediment” to peace. Remember, this is the month of the March Hare. According to an American general, the invasion of Afghanistan is not so much a real war as a “war of perception”. Thus, the recent “liberation of the city of Marjah” from the Taliban’s “command-and-control structure” was pure Hollywood. Marjah is not a city; there was no Taliban command and control. The heroic liberators killed the usual civilians, the poorest of the poor. Otherwise, it was fake.  A war of perception is meant to provide fake news for the folks back home, to make a failed colonial adventure seem worthwhile and patriotic, as if The Hurt Locker were real and the parades of flag-wrapped coffins through Wootton Bassett were not a cynical propaganda exercise. Silent witness “War is fun”, the helmets in Vietnam used to say with bleakest irony, meaning that if a war is shown to have no purpose other than to justify voracious power in the cause of lucrative fanaticisms such as the weapons industry, the danger of truth beckons. This danger can be illustrated by comparing the liberal perception of Tony Blair in 1997 as one “who wants to create a world [where] ideology has surrendered entirely to ‘values’” (Hugo Young, the Guardian) to the public reckoning today of a liar and war criminal. Western war-states such as the US and Britain are threatened not by the Taliban or any other introverted tribesmen in faraway places, but by the anti-war instincts of their own citizens. Consider the draconian sentences handed down in London to scores of young people who protested against Israel’s assault on Gaza in January last year.  Following demonstrations in which paramilitary police “kettled” thousands, first offenders have received two and a half years in prison for minor offences that would not normally carry a custodial sentence. On both sides of the Atlantic, serious dissent exposing illegal war has become a serious crime. Silence in other high places allows this moral travesty. Across the arts, literature, journalism and the law, liberal elites, having hurried away from the debris of Blair and now Obama, continue to fudge their indifference to the barbarism and aims of Western state crimes by promoting retrospectively the evils of their convenient demons, such as Saddam Hussein. With Harold Pinter gone, try compiling a list of well-known writers, artists and advocates whose principles are not consumed by the “market” or neutered by their celebrity. Who among them has spoken out about the holocaust in Iraq during almost 20 years of lethal blockade and assault? And all of it has been deliberate. On 22 January 1991, the US Defence Intelligence Agency predicted in impressive detail how a blockade would systematically destroy Iraq’s clean water system and lead to “increased incidences, if not epidemics, of disease”. So the US set about eliminating clean water for the Iraqi population: one of the causes, UNICEF noted, of the deaths of half a million Iraqi infants under the age of five. But this extremism apparently has no name.   Partners in crime Norman Mailer once said he believed the US, in its endless pursuit of war and domination, had entered a “pre-fascist era”. Mailer seemed tentative, as if trying to warn about something even he could not quite define. “Fascism” is not right, for it invokes lazy historical precedents, conjuring yet again the iconography of German and Italian repression. On the other hand, American authoritarianism, as the American cultural critic Henry Giroux pointed out recently, is “more nuance, less theatrical, more cunning, less concerned with repressive modes of control than with manipulative modes of consent”. This is Americanism, the only predatory ideology to deny that it is an ideology. The rise of tentacular corporations that are dictatorships in their own right and of a military that is now a state within the state, set behind the façade of the best democracy 35,000 Washington lobbyists can buy, and a popular culture programmed to divert and stultify, is without precedent. More nuanced, perhaps, but the results are unambiguous. Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck, the senior UN officials in Iraq during the US- and British-led blockade, are in no doubt they witnessed genocide. They saw no gas chambers. Insidious, undeclared, even presented wittily as enlightenment on the march, the Third World War and its genocide proceeded, human being by human being. In the coming election campaign in Britain, the candidates will refer to this war only to laud “our boys”. The candidates are almost identical political mummies, shrouded in the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes. As Blair demonstrated a mite too eagerly, the British elite love America because America allows them to barrack and bomb the natives and call themselves “partners”. We should interrupt their fun. 30 March 2010 - This article first appeared in New Statesman

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