Amerikansk udenrigspolitik

USAs Herrefolksmentalitet   John Foster Dulles   Det handler om at udplyndre   George Kennan   Cuba  Man kan ikke stole på USAs løfter   USA har brug for en uklart defineret fjende   Hvad ville der ske, hvis USA blev opfattet som en "exporter of terrorism".
 

se også CIA    By August 1948, with the onset of the Berlin Crisis, Forrestal called for an overall policy towards the Soviets. p. 148 i Aldrich. Det kan nok sættes som en officiel startdato for Den kolde krig.

Brookings Institution er det demokratiske partis tænketank.

Har USA en forkærlighed for militærkup på den 11. september ? 1973 Chile, 1980 Tyrkiet

USA foretrækker at samarbejde med quislinger, fremfor modstandsfolk - også når de garanteret ikke er kommunister: Pétains mand i Algeriet fremfor de Gaulle, Manuel Roxas y Acuna, japanernes mand på Philippinerne fremfor Sergio Osmena, hvilket svarer til den meget mere detaljerede beskrivelse, som Hans Habe giver vedrørende Tyskland i Off Limits.

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 ICH: [A look behind the philosophy and practice of Americas push for domination of the worlds economy and culture. First published From Parameters. Summer 1997, pp. 4-14: US Army War College] 

There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing... ..We are entering a new American century, in which we will become still wealthier, culturally more lethal, and increasingly powerful. We will excite hatreds without precedent ...The laid-off blue-collar worker in America and the Taliban militiaman in Afghanistan are brothers in suffering.... Contemporary American culture is the most powerful in history, and the most destructive of competitor cultures. [Her anvendes en bred sociologisk definition på kultur, som når man taler om Ærtebøllekulturen, OJ].... Our cultural empire has the addicted-men and women everywhere-clamoring for more. And they pay for the privilege of their disillusionment. ..If religion is the opium of the people, video is their crack cocaine... Developing countries will not be able to depend on physical production industries, because there will always be another country willing to work cheaper....The have-nots will hate and strive to attack the haves. And we in the United States will continue to be perceived as the ultimate haves. 

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 at amerikansk udenrigspolitik først og fremmest går ud på at sikre friheden til at udplyndre og udbytte. Chomsky. De indrømmelser, finansfolk opnår, må garanteres af statsmænd, om så sagesløse landes suverænitet skal krænkes derved.  Chomsky, p. 23. Det forstod Wild Bill Donovan - som jeg læser Aldrich's citat.

1947, Truman danner NSC og CIA. CIAs afdeling for beskidte kneb, OPC, under Frank Wisner skaber stay-behind hære i Vesteuropa, Ganser, p. 250.

"For globalism to work, America cannot be afraid to act like the almighty superpower that it is.... The hidden hand of the market will never work without the hidden fist - McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonald-Douglas, the designer of F-15. And the hidden fist, that keep the world safe for Silicon Valley technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps." (NY Times 280399)

VERDENSHERSKEREN TALER, læs Executive Order: Blocking Property of Persons Undermining the Sovereignty of Lebanon or Its Democratic Processes and Institutions. Tænk når du læser på, 1. hvem truer Libanons selvstændighed, ikke i Ws fantasi, men i virkeligheden ? Ja, svaret er Israel. 2. Hvad rager det USA ? 3. Hvordan kan angreb på Libanons selvstændighed true USA ? og så så det udgør en "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security", der kan begrunde en national nødretstilstand. Det er værre, end da Hitler følte sig provokeret af Tjekkoslovakiet. Derudover ser man i f.eks. det manglende varsel til de berørte nogen alvorlige mangler i retssikkerheden - ikke at det er nyt i USA. OJ.

De (til USA) indvandrede eksperter, Kissinger, Brzezinski, Mme Albright, Mme Rice, viser, at de er blevet gode amerikanere ved at presse på for udvidelse af USAs magt, general Gallois i Gama Michael: Rencontres au sommet, p. 49. Nationen fødtes i 1787 og allerede i 1804 havde man en flåde i Middelhavet for at sætte skik på Pashaen i Tripoli ! "C'est extraordinaire cette idée. La conquête de l'espace vide leur a donné des idées, de suppression de la frontière." (Det er en fantastisk ide. Erobringen afdet tomme land har givet dem ideer - fjernelsen af grænser. Og det fortsætter. Nu vil USA sætte sig på rummet, annektere Kosmos, som man annekterede Alaska ! Gallois, p. 51.

200707, ICH, Johan Galtung What Comes After The U.S. Empire? "You can go through the total amount of interventions, 243, since Thomas Jefferson started, and you will find that almost without exception the interventions are triggered by some political action that sounds like or might lead to redistribution of wealth and power somewhere in the world....The war of state terrorism against terrorism is an elitist warfare against peoples warfare."

Hovedfjenden er imidlertid altid den indfødte befolkning, der har en uheldig tendens til at falde for fremmedartede og uacceptable ideer om at bruge egne ressourcer til egne formål. ( Chomsky, p. 17).

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 I en større videnskabelig analyse af amerikansk sikkerhedspolitik, som til dels bygger på nylig offentligjorte kilder, påpeger Melvyn Leffler, at da anden verdenskng var forbi, indbefattede det amerikanske nationale sikkerhedsbegreb... en strategisk indflydelsessfære på den vestlige halvkugle (som andre, og det vil først og fremmest sige Europa, skulle udelukkes fra, og hvor »strategisk indflydelse« indbefatter økonomisk kontrol, N.C.), herredømmet over Atlanterhavet og Stillehavet, et udstrakt system af fjerntliggende baser til forlængelse af den strategiske front og udstrækning af Amerikas magt, et endnu mere udstrakt system af transitrettigheder som skulle lette civile flyvepladsers omdannelse til militære luftbaser, adgang til ressourcer og markeder i hovedparten af Eurasien, udelukkelse af en potentiel fjende fra disse ressourcer og opretholdelse af overlegenhed på atomvåbenområdet«. Dette strategiske sikkerhedsbegreb er med til at forklare »dynamikken i den kolde krig efter 1948«, tilføjer Leffler. Det var en ekspansiv vision, der passede til USA's respektindgydende styrke på daværende tidspunkt. ( Chomsky, p. 30 - 31)

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De (til USA) indvandrede eksperter, Kissinger, Brzezinski (polsk, jøde, f. 1928, dobbelt nationalitet (p. 92), Mme Albright, Mme Rice (ikke indvandret, men sort), viser, at de er blevet gode amerikanere ved at presse på for udvidelse af USAs magt, p. 50. (sidehenvisningerne er til Gama Michael: Rencontres au sommet). Brzezinski var i 1960erne fortaler for detente, senere kendes han jo mest som tilhænger af militære interventioner (p. 92). I Brzezinskis bog fra 1970 (Between Two Ages; America s Role in the Technotronic Era) forudser han en erstatning for FN, "som hæmmes af den kolde krig".

Hr.Bush' krig mod terrorismen kunne starte helt hjemme i Texas ! (WMD Plot Uncovered In East Texas: CBS 11 Investigates Poison Gas Plot, 261103) Det er en værre historie - og de fyre er mere direkte farlige end de mange muslimer, man jager.

USA er magtberuset, Mihail Gorbatjov, 020406. Det fører til en sort nat.

Fra 1981, Alexander Haig, er USA parat til at føre krig for råstoffer. Roth.

100207, Siger Putin det samme, mere udførligt og på en anden måde, på en Konference om Sikkerhedspolitik i München. Talen findes på webstedet, også i en engelsk oversættelse.

Når USA støtter national uafhængighed, kunne det så skyldes, at man derefter kan købe sig billige stemmer i FN. Hvem stemmer sammen med USA og Israel ? (Tonga, Marshalløerne, Vanuatu,  etc.)

300508, BBC, AI-Qaeda in retreat - CIA chief. [Michael Hayden]. Hvor han så har det fra !

301206, The Australian, World laughing at US: Mahathir. (Mahathir Mohammed, fhv. premierminister i Malaysia) "America has lost," he said yesterday. "It used to be a world power. It is no longer a world power" 

170606, ICH, Kurt Vonnegut, Custodians of chaos. "In case you haven't noticed, we are now as feared and hated all over the world as Nazis once were."

Den spansk-amerikanske krig. "Chefen for det amerikanske handelsministeriums udenrigshandelskontor havde i 1902 et lidt andet og noget mere realistisk syn på disse "humanitære grunde": 

Bag den folkestemning, som tiden måske ville have vejret bort, der tvang de Forenede Stater til at  gribe til våben mod det spanske herredømme på Cuba, lå vore økonomiske forbindelser med Vestindien og de sydamerikanske republikker. Så var stærkt var dette kommercielle instinkt, at havde der ingen emotionel anledning været, såsom det spanske styres påståede uhyrligheder eller sænkningen af Maine, ville vi uden tvivl alligevel være endt med at tage skridt til med stærk hånd at bringe det til ophør, som forekom at være en økonomisk gene... Den spansk-amerikanske krig var blot en episode i en almindelig ekspansionsudvikling, hvis rødder skal søges i ændrede baggrundsbetingelser, nemlig en industriel kapacitet langt ud over vor hjemlige forbrugsevne. Man så sådan på det, at det var nødvendigt for os ikke alene at finde udenlandske aftagere til vore varer, men at skaffe midler til at gøre adgangen til udenlandske markeder let, økonomisk og sikker." Chomsky, p. 106

George Kennans holdninger er kort og koncist udtrykt i Policy Planning Study (PPS) 23 fra februar 1948: ...vi har omkring 50% af verdensformuen, men kun 6,3% af verdens befolkning... I denne situation kan det ikke undgås, at man ser på os med misundelse og modvilje. Vor egentlige opgave i den kommende tid er at udforme et mønster af relationer, der vil gøre det muligt for os at opretholde denne forskelsstilling uden påviseligt at skade vor nationale sikkerhed. Vi må gøre det uden sentimentalitet og dagdrømmeri; og vor opmærksomhed må overalt være koncentreret om vore umiddelbare nationale mål. Vi skal ikke bilde os ind, at vi i dag kan tillade os den luksus, det er at være  altruistisk og optræde som hele verdens velgørere... Vi bør holde op med at tale om vage og - for det Fjerne Østen - urealistiske målsætninger som menneskerettigheder, højere levefod og demokratisering. Den dag er ikke fjern, hvor vi kommer til at tale magtens ligefremme sprog. Jo mindre vi til den tid hæmmes af idealistiske slagord, jo bedre. Så vidt DUEN George Kennan citeret efter  Chomsky, p. 26.

"Man i skal huske, at ifølge de Orwell'ske principper, som gælder for vestlig logik, er det et definitionsspørgsmål, ikke et spørgsmål om kendsgerninger, at USA aldrig driver undergravende virksomhed eller begår aggression; det følger derfor logisk, at hvis USA's fjender optræder på en måde, som mishager Vor Fælles Overherre, og kommer i konflikt med hans planer, så gør de sig dermed skyldige i aggression og undergravende virksomhed i deres eget land."  Chomsky, p. 136.

"Tag for eksempel situationen i 1950, da den første store efterkrigsudvidelse af det militære system indledtes med en tredobling af militærudgifterne. Den vedtagne forklaring er, at det var en reaktion på Korea-krigen, der blev tolket som et bevis på Moskvas planer om at erobre verden. Det kan næppe kaldes en troværdig forklaring. For det første blev forslaget om en massiv udbygning af det militære system som led i en »tilbagerulningsstrategi« mod Sovjetunionen fremsat i NSC-68 adskillige måneder før Korea-krigen," Chomsky, p.147.

271006, ICH newsletter: Exclusive: Hillary Clinton On Israel, Iraq And Terror: Clinton Says U.S. should Only Support Democratic Elections When Certin That The Outcome Favors U.S. / Israel.  http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/19734/ 

080606, CounterPunch, BILL CHRISTISON: "War, War and More War is What Bush Really Wants"  Sammenligner "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America" 2002 og 2006 udgaven. Der er lagt op til langvarig krig. "The single most urgent objective right now is preventing a war, possibly nuclear, from being started by the U.S. and/or Israel against Iran." 

- The retired generals' revolt only highlights the malaise in the US polity which has crept in, specially in recent decades. The disconnect between an arrogant, ill informed Administration and the military executors of its policies in Iraq has opened a Pandora's box which hopefully might become the tipping point for much needed changes in US polity.  - K Gajendra Singh, 230406.

USAs udenrigspolitik går i høj grad ud på at forhindre, at der opstår vellykkede alternativer til kapitalismen, William Blum kalder det: "Killing Hope"; selve ideen stammer vist nok fra Noam Chomsky. Den illustreres af Ted Rall, 090406, ICH: "The Danger of Hugo Chávez's Successful Socialism".

"The United States has lost its moral compass and fallen out of step with the rest of the world in the wake of September 11", the former United Nations human rights commissioner, Mary Robinson, warned tonight. (200306, The Times) The former Irish leader disputed the argument that the post 9/11 world meant that human rights could be curtailed in the name of security. This would lead to democracies "losing the moral high ground", she said. 

"The war in Iraq is the most important liberal, revolutionary US democracy-building project since the Marshall Plan. It is one of the noblest things this country has ever attempted abroad" og fra NY Times - begge udsagn fra et af de ledende tågehorn i det amerikanske establishment, Tom Friedman, her citeret fra CounterPunch, 130505.

William Blum, ICH, 220506 "Come Out of the White House with Your Hands Up!" har en mere nuanceret opfattelse af Marshall-planen.

Gary Younge skriver (The Guardian, 060206): "Second, there is little point in claiming you were tricked unless you address what made you so gullible in the first place. The basic idea that the US has a historic duty to bring progress, democracy and enlightenment at the barrel of a gun seems about as firmly ingrained in the Amencan mindset as its record of doing the opposite in Central and South America and south-east Asia is in American history. Nothing that has happened in Iraq seems to have shifted that perception in the US. A significant minority were against the war from the start. For the rest, the trouble with the war is not that they invaded a sovereign country on a false pretext and killed hundreds of thousands. It's that they're not winning.... With each exposé of torture, subjugation, blunder and plunder you keep hearing that Americans have lost their innocence. Somehow they always find it again just in time to buy into the next bad idea. "

221006, Harpers, Daniel Ellsberg: "TheNextWar" har et væsentligt point, som tilsyneladende bliver ved at gentage sig - ikke bare over there - "His colleagues, however, accepted White  House assurances that the president sought "no wider war" and had no intention of expanding hostilities without further consulting them.

011105, MSNBC. "US steps up planning for a Cuba without Castro". 

Every six months, the National Intelligence Council revises a secret watchlist of 25 countries in which instability could require US intervention. The reconstruction office, headed by Carlos Pascual - a Cuba-born former ambassador - was focused on Sudan, Haiti, Congo and Nepal. In a controversial move, Cuba was added to the list.

USA er bekymret for at Europa og Asien skulle finde sammen, Noam Chomsky.

Om nødvendigheden af en økonomisk boycot af USA: Johan Galtung: "Economic Boycott as Nonviolence"  "Økonomisk boykot som ikke-vold".

Labours fhv. forsvarsminister Peter Kilfoyle siger i anledning af Mirrors artikel, om at Bush ville bombe Al Jazira: ': "It's frightening to think that such a powerful man as Bush can propose such cavalier actions."

Since when are the internal affairs of other nations a legitimate concern for the USA? The painfully obvious answer to this is that the government of the United States will consider the domestic affairs of other nations to be its business up to and until the day the USA stops empire building. And why not? High-ranking government officials don't normally send their kids off to die in wars; high-ranking government officials are always in bed with arms and weapons manufacturers and always looking for a way to line their pockets. The governments start wars and the people pay the price. (Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers, LewRockwell, 211005).

1991, Howard Zinn: The Zinn Reader, "Machiavellian Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Means and Ends" En klog indføring. Rejser vigtige spørgsmål.

230306, William Blum, ICH,  US foreign policy does not "mean well". It's not that American leaders have miscalculated, or blundered, causing great suffering, as in Iraq, while having noble intentions. Rather, while pursuing their imperial goals they simply do not care about the welfare of the foreign peoples who are on the receiving end of the bombing and the torture, and we should not let them get away with claiming such intentions. .... The United States is not actually against terrorism per se, only those terrorists who are not allies of the empire.

150198, Le Nouvel Observateur, et interview med Zbigniew Brzezinski om hvordan man provokerede Sovjetunionen til at angribe Afghanistan. Fra 030779 leverede CIA hemmelig hjælp til regimemodstandere i Afghanistan.

291005, ICH, Scott Ritter: "Indicting America": "The deliberate and systematic manner in which the Bush administration, from the president on down, peddled misleading, distorted and fabricated information to Congress and the American people represents a frontal assault on the very system of government the United States of America proclaims to champion."

 200206, The Independent. Pentagon har lige proklameret en lang krig mod terrorismen, det betyder Orwells endeløse krig.

100506, Democracy Now, interview med James Carroll om hans nye bog: "House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power." Han har bl.a. flere begivenheder på en 11. september.

291005, ICH, Nolan K Anderson, "who was once a "conservative" until he found there was nothing left to conserve", skriver et åbent brev til Den ærede Cheney i anledning af vecepræsidentens indsats for at opretholde CIAs ret til tortur. Et rigtig godt brev.

210706, The Independent, Patrick Cockburn America's domestic policy vs America's foreign policy. Illustrerer udmærket dobbeltmoralen, f.eks. "This week, George Bush used his presidential veto to block a bill on stem cell research, saying he couldn't support the 'taking of innocent human life'. In Iraq, six civilians are killed by a US air strike, while casualties in Lebanon and Israel mount. George Bush (and Tony Blair) oppose UN calls for an immediate ceasefire."

En medvirkende årsag til, at Israel har kunnet skaffe sig sin fantastiske indflydelse over USAs udenrigspolitik, er den amerikanske opfattelse af at være noget særligt (American exceptionalism), af at have en særlig forpligtelse ("manifest destiny"), som var det ideologiske grundlag for at rydde Amerika for indianere og overtage landet. Israel har samme selvopfattelse, kun er "indianere" skiftet ud med "arabere".(Zinn, Boston Review, 241106 - Wampsuttas tale, Thanksgiving 1970, BlackCommentator 207). "American exceptionalism was never more clearly expressed than by Secretary of War Elihu Root, who in 1899 declared, "The American soldier is different from all other soldiers of all other countries since the world began. He is the advance guard of liberty and justice, of law and order, and of peace and happiness." At the time he was saying this, American soldiers in the Philippines were starting a bloodbath which would take the lives of 600,000 Filipinos...During the Cold War, many American "liberals" became caught up in a kind of hysteria about the Soviet expansion, which was certainly real in Eastern Europe but was greatly exaggerated as a threat to western Europe and the United States....After the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, terrorism replaced communism as the justification for expansion. ...Terrorism was real, but its threat was magnified to the point of hysteria... Preemptively and, if need be, unilaterally; and against "states that support" terrorists, not just terrorists themselves. Those are large steps in the direction of the Bush doctrine, though the editors do qualify their support for preemption by adding that the threat must be "substantial, immediate, and provable." But when intellectuals endorse abstract principles, even with qualifications, they need to keep in mind that the principles will be applied by the people who run the U.S. government. This is all the more important to keep in mind when the abstract principle is about the use of violence by the state - in fact, about preemptively initiating the use of violence. " (Zinn)

Lidt om Colin Powells tid i Vietnam findes hos Stan Goff: Perception Management

State Department, www.usinfo.state.gov
National Security council, www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/
CIA, www.cia.gov
Project for a New American Century, nykonservativ, www.newamericancentury.org
Center for Security Policy, nykonservativ, www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org

Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy
Federation of American Scientists, neutral, videnskabelig, www.fas.org
Atlanta Journal Constitution, www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/0902/29bookman.html

i'n'i Archive, William Bowles

Global Security, www.globalsecurity.org
The Sunshine Project, Tysk-amerikansk projekt om de amerikanske WMD/ABC våben, www.sunshine-project.org
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, www.ceip.org
Center for Strategic and International Studies, www.csis.org

Foreign Policy in Focus, www.fpif.org

Present Danger, http://www.presentdanger.org/index.html ligger hos Foreign Policy in Focus

International Crisis Group, en tænketank financieret af George Soros. Beskæftigede en tid Ahtisaari.

Gaffney, Frank, president of Centre for Security Policy, has made a list of what the neocons expect from their reelected president.

USA anvender 48 % af unionens skatteindtægter på militæret, War Resisters League, 2005 (tallene er fra budget 2006). Der er også tal for de 9 største leverandører til militæret.

American Center for International Law, executive director Evan Augustine Peterson III skriver, 240305: The USAs tragic withdrawal from the rule of law".

Chalmers Johnson: "Wake Up!: Washington's alarming Foreign Policy" 010405.

Theory of Perpetual War - alarmerende, men sammenhængende, og rimelig i sin logik. 230605, ingen forfatter angiven.

William Blum: "May I have the envelope, please", 220305. Bush er ikke enestående i sin udenrigspolitik, kun i sin måde at servere den på.

En liste over USAs vetoer i sikkerhedsrådet 1972 - 2002, findes hos Information Clearing House. Kopi heraf.

oct.2002, Harper's Magazine, 0017789X, Oct 2002, Vol. 305, Issue 1829, David Armstrong, Dick Cheney's Song of America. "The Plan was published in unclassified form most recently under the title of Defense Strategy for the 1990s, (pdf) as Cheney ended his term as secretary of defense. (1993)...The Plan is for the United States to rule the world..., the United States would increasingly base the size and structure of its forces on the need to respond to "regional contingencies" and maintain a peacetime military presence overseas....The Plan's debut was well timed. By a remarkable coincidence, Bush revealed it the very day Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait. The Gulf War temporarily reduced the pressure to cut military spending. [Det forklarer April Glaspie's udtalelse til Saddam, om at USA ikke ville blande sig i en indre arabisk strid. Havde Saddam holdt sig tilbage, ville dette pres være fortsat. OJ]...Rumsfeld's version adds a few new ideas, most impressively the concept of preemptive strikes with nuclear weapons...Rumsfeld spelled out these strategies in Foreign Affairs earlier this year, and it is there that he articulated the remaining elements of the Plan; unilateralism and global doninance...We also once denounced those who tried to rule the world. Our primary objection (at least officially) to the Soviet Union as its quest for global domination. Through the successful employment of the tools of containment, deterrence, collective security, and diplomacy - the very methods we now reject - we rid ourselves and the world of the Evil Empire. Having done so, we now pursue the very thing for which we opposed it. And now that the Soviet Union is gone, there appears to be no one left to stop us."

Liste over USAs forsøg (vellykkede og mislykkede) på fremmede politikere.

Oversigt over amerikanske baser, og amerikanske olieinteresser, fra Foreign Policy in Focus, via Asia Times, nov. 2003

190207, ICH, Chalmers Johnson, 737 U.S. Military Bases = Global Empire. "Once upon a time, you could trace the spread of imperialism by counting up colonies. America's version of the colony is the military base; and by following the changing politics of global basing, one can learn much about our ever more all-encompassing imperial "footprint" and the militarism that grows with it... During fiscal 2005, the military high command deployed to our overseas bases some 196,975 uniformed personnel as well as an equal number of dependents and Department of Defense civilian officials, and employed an additional 81,425 locally hired foreigners...The worldwide total of U.S. military personnel in 2005, including those based domestically, was 1,840,062 supported by an additional 473,306 Defense Department civil service employees and 203,328 local hires...our nuclear deployments, which, as William Arkin, an authority on the subject, writes, [have] violated its treaty obligations. The U.S. was lying to many of its closest allies, even in NATO, about its nuclear designs. Tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, hundreds of bases, and dozens of ships and submarines existed in a special secret world of their own with no rational military or even 'deterrence' justification...an exponential growth in new types of bases -- without dependents and the amenities they would require - in very remote areas where the U.S. military has never been before." 

Howard Zinn skriver i The Progressive, januar 2004 et forslag til nomineringstale for den demokratiske præsidentkandidat i 2004. Den handler også om en ny udenrigspolitik.

FOIA dokumenter om Kissingers indsats mod demokrati og menneskerettigheder i Sydamerika, frigivet 011004.

Chalmers Johnson: "No longer the "Lone" Superpower - Coming to terms with China", http://tomdispatch.com/indexprint.mhtml?pid=2259., Dansk oversættelse

William D Hartung: Military - Industrial Complex Revisited, 080699.

Project Camelot and Chile.

USAs hemmelige - og ikke-kongres-godkendte-krige - finansieres via narkotikahandel. Det gjaldt Iran - Contra, det gjaldt bin Laden islamisterne mod Sovjetunionen i Afghanistan og det gælder formentlig også fortsat i Sydamerika. Den samtidige "krig mod stoffer" hjælper med at holde prise oppe. Det giver somme tider selvmodsigende resultater, f.eks. som beskrevet af Spiegel, 270307, NATO to Legalize Afghanistan's Opium? ". The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found that the amount of raw opium produced in Afghanistan in 2006 had increased by 49 percent over the previous year to around 6,100 tons  Much of the proceeds - an estimated $3 billion - are pumped back into the Taliban, as the Islamists  continue to gain ground against NATO and US forces in the southern part of the country....Legalization, though, could pose its own risks. Critics of the plan warn that as long as some members of the state apparatus are in the pay of the drug barons, the legalized cultivation of poppies could just serve to increase their income. "

121201, AlterNet: Golden State Terrorists. Følgende nævnes: Cambodian Freedom Fighters, Government of Free Vietnam.

081003, Sam Gardiner, Colonel, USAF (Retired): "Truth from These Podia" Summary of a Study of Strategic Influence, Perception Management, Strategic Information Warfare and Strategic Psychological Operations in Gulf II. (findes på NSA, George Washington University). Gennemgår systemet i løgnene op til angrebet på Iraq. De har ikke læst Goebbels forgæves. (Dokumentet er kun et summary, nærmest som hans PowerPoint overskrifter til et foredrag).

191005, Gav fhv. løjtnant Lawrence Wilkerson, stabschef i udenrigsministeriet, 2002 - 2005 en forelæsning om Bush administrationens eneståenhed, hvad angår måden, hvorpå sikkerhedspolitiske beslutninger træffes. Han beskriver, at udenrigspolitikken blev shanghaiet af en bande omkring Cheney og Rumsfeld, og at Rice havde for travlt med at komme tæt på Bush, til at følge selvstændigt med. Meget væsentlig læsning.

Richard Heinberg: The US and Eurasia: End game for the Industrial Era ?, MuseLetter, 132, febr. 2003. Velskrevent essay om geopolitik set som en kamp om resourcer - en darwinistisk kamp mod økologiske begrænsninger - om at øge jordens bærekapacitet for mennesker. [Huntington får en over snuden som havende enten misforstået geopolitikken eller være bevidst vildledende]. Når de opkommende magter Tyskland og Japan mislykkedes skyldes det, at de hverken havde eller hurtigt lykkedes at skaff sig tilstrækkelige letanvendelige energiresourcer. Heinberg når igennem til nutiden og USAs betaling af olie med papir. Utilfredsheden med USAs verdensherredømme gar spredt sig fra venstrefløjs- og antiglobaliseringsdemonstranter til geostrateger i Rusland, Kina, Japan of Vesteuropa. Dertil kommer at specielt Latinamerika bevidst søger at komme ud af sin afhængighed af USA. USA vil ikke søge en stabil løsning, ustabilitet er en forudsætning/begrundelse for amerikansk militær indsats overalt i verden. [Heinberg kalder det TeaterMilitarisme, man viser sin militære styrke]. USAs sårbarhed er, at det hele falder sammen, hvis olien skal betales med andet end USD. Heinberg understreger her, at den offensive militærpolitik er motiveret af denne svaghed. Det værste der kunne ske for amerikanerne var en strategisk, økonomisk alliance mellem Europa, Rusland, Kina og OPEC. Næste århundrede vil se slutningen på geopolitikken, enten er verden ødelagt af atomkrig eller forhåbentlig består den af beskedne, regionalt organiserede samfund, som lever på den energi, som solen leverer.

Colin Powell citeres i Channelnewsasia, 170604, for følgende fornuftige udsagn om demokratisering af Mellemøsten: "Lad hvert land reformere sig efter sin egen vej, modernisere i forhold til sin egen historie, sin egen tradition, sin kultur....Lad os ikke lade bomber være kilden til reform og modernisering." - Nu mangler vi kun, at handling følger disse smukke ord.

I talen på West Point 010602 sagde Bush, at der var 60 lande der var potentielle mål for "regime change" Chalmers Johnson: "12 questions for President Bush meant to help strengthen his remaining speeches about Iraq", 310504, 

Den amerikanske regerings prioritering af hvordan man bedst opnår politisk indflydelse fremgår af at regeringen har bedt om 87 milliarder USD i 2004 som extraomkostninger i forbindelse med krigen i Iraq. USAs budget for U-landshjælp var i 2002 på 10 milliarder USD, George Soros, i The Guardian, 260104.

021205, NTI. U.S. strategic Command annoncerer at de nu kan slå til overalt på jorden med konventionelle eller kernevåben. (CONPLAN 8022).

Der kommer ikke til at ske nogen væsentlig ændring af USAs udenrigspolitik efter præsidentvalget i november 2004. Kerry har stemt for alle væsentlige Bush initiativer. Gabriel Kolko, argumenterer i Sydney Morning Herald for, at et genvalg af Bush er det mindre onde. Dette simpelthen fordi Bush har skabt sig uvenner internationalt, så verden omkring vil være på vagt. Jeg er ganske enig, dels fordi Clinton og Albright førte en meget lignende politik, dels fordi Kerry kommer fra eksakt samme kredse som Bush. De gik på universitetet samtidigt og var begge medlem af studenterforeningen "Skulls and Bones", der angiveligt er knyttet til CIA.

Tænk at man skulle opnå at blive enig med Patrick Buchanan om noget. Men 120504 skriver han fakstisk meget fornuftigt: "Den neokonservative tid er forbi. Alt pladderet om "imperium", vores "unipolære tid", "Pax Americana" og "godhjertet global hegemoni" vil ligeså stille blive sat på hylden og glemt som barnlig pludren....

Med et underskud på 500 milliarder USD har vi ikke penge til nye krige. Med en hær på 480000 mand spredt for meget ud har vi ikke tropperne. Med april - maj der kostede os en battalion døde og sårede vil vi ikke betale prisen. Med de beskidte billeder fra Abu Ghraib har vi ikke længere moralsk autoritet til at påtvinge Iraq vore "værdier"....

Hvorfor er vi så hadede i Mellemøsten: 

1. Vores invasion af Iraq ses som en overlagt og uretfærdig krig for at knuse en svag arabisk nation, som ikke havde truet eller angrebet os, for at snuppe deres olie.

2. Vi ses som en arrogant imperialistisk stormagt som dikterer arabiske folk [hvad de skal] og opretholder regimer, der undertrykker dem.

3. Vi ses som dem der finansierer og bevæbner et Israel som undertrykker og fratager palæstinenserne deres land og nægter dem rettigheder som vi hyklerisk prædiker for verden....

Præsidenten skulle også tilbyde at trække amerikanske tropper hjem fra ethvert arabisk land, som ønsker det.... Vort militære nærvær i disse arabiske og islamiske lande, ser det ud til, gør mindre for at forebygge terrorangreb end for at fremkalde dem....

En præsidentvalgkamp er den lejlighed, hvor den store udenrigspolitiske debat skulle ske om vi skal bevare amerikanske tropper ud over hele verden eller om vi skulle trække dem hjem og lade andre nationer selv bestemme deres egen skæbne. Desværre har vi 2 kandidater og 2 partier, som enes om vores nuværende udenrigspolitik, som har slået så synligt fejl."

Miami TV Channel 41 bragte, 110604, interviews med Rodolfo Frometa med flere som reklamerede for terroristaktiner mod Cuba & Venezuela.

Stephen Gowans, 220604, "The predatory policies of the world's de facto government" giver en god beskrivelse naf USAs udenringspolitik. Se f.eks. afssbittet om Bechtel og kloaksystemet i Iraq. Og afsnittet om den metode, hvor man først diaboliserer en statsleder og siden bomber hans land. Hans beskrivelse af Human Rights Watch var gyldig, det bliver spændende at se om kritikken i anlednig af Iraq, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo forbliver på overfladen, eller om HRW faktisk kan agere uafhængigt af USAs udenrigsministerium.

juli/august 2004, Zmag. Edward Herman anmelder Michael Mandels bog: "How America gets away with murder: Illegal wars, Collateral Damage, and Crimes against Humanity., Pluto Press, 2004. Mandel beskriver den forvridning af den internationale ret, som er sket med krigene i Jugoslavien, Afghanistan og Iraq. Specielt har de mange særdomstole, oprettet for at dømme USAs selvvalgte fjender, medført, at man ser bort fra det, der fremstod efter Nürnbergdommene, som den overordnede forbrydelse, det at føre angrebskrig. En anden type af krigsforbrydelse, der får mindre opmærksomhed, ja næsten er afkriminaliseret, er manglende beskyttelse af civile, det der nu skjules under betegnelsen "collateral damage".

Time, 130904, refererer en konference på Capitol Hill, hvor William Luti, (Pentagon medarbejder) taler om 5 - 6lande, de udviser sådanne træk, som ingen ansvarlig leder kan acceptere, hvilket indikerer en udvidelse af den hidtidige ondskabens akse.

080904, Brendan O'Neill skriver i Spiked-politics, at de humanitære interventioner under Clinton nedbrød den opbyggede respekt for den suveræne nation og princippet om ikke-indblanding i den suveræne nations indre anliggender. Dette skabte baggrund for at ikke-stats-aktører kunne skaffe sig større plads i den internationale politik. - Min vurdering er snarere, at Clintons administration anvendte ikke-statslige aktører til at nedbryde stater, som man ikke brød sig om, - det strider i øvrigt ikke mod det O'Neill skriver. Den slags grupper er lettere at forvirre - eller splitte - så de foretager de vanvittige handlinger, som ingen regeringsansat kunne gøre.

Et af USAs midler til beherskelse af resten af verden er det Nationale Forsvar mod Raketter, (NMD), som Bush har besluttet at opbygge. Scott Ritter afslører 030105, i Christian Science  Monitor, at selvom det er bygget på oplysninger om den russiske raket SS-25 - hentet af våbenkontrollører, bl.a. Ritter, så klarede det ikke engang Iraqs raketter i 1. Iraqkrig. Og nu har Rusland udviklet en ny og "bedre" raket, SS-27. Derfor anbefaler Ritter diplomati i stedet for oprustning.

170105, The New Yorker. Seymour Hersh: "The coming wars".

220105, Los Angeles Times. Condoleeza Rices liste over tyrannier: Cuba, Burma, Nordkorea, Iran, Hvide Rusland og Zimbabwe. [Selvfølgelig er Karimovs Uzbekistan ikke noget tyranni, han koger jo kun USAs fjender.]

030305, F William Engdahl i Asia Times: The oil factor in Bush's "war on tyranny": USAs deltagelse i 1. verdenskrig var "for at gøre verde sikker for demokratiet"; deltagelsen i 2. verdenskrig var "for at bringe en ende på alle krige". Nu er parolen krig "for at bringe en ende på tyranni i vor verden". Hermed er dersket et markant skift i amerikansk udenrigspolitik. De to første handler om at reagere på at andre har sat en krig igang. Tyranni er et internt forhold mellem et folk og dets regering. Der er ikke deri nogen trussel, hverken direkte eller indirekte mod USA.

USA/Bush/Washington betyder en gruppe af private foretagender, der leverer udstyr til militæret o.l. og udøver en betragtelig kontrol over regeringen, som det militær-industrielle kompleks, som præsident Dwight Eisenhower advarede mod ved sin fratræden i 1961.

Washington har ikke haft problemer med at alliere sig med tyranner: Musharraf i Pakistan, Ilham Aliyev i Azerbaidian, Islam Karimov i Uzbekistan, al Sabah familien i Kuwait og Oman, Alvaro Uribe i Colombia.

Rice's liste over tyrannier: Cuba, Burma, Nordkorea, Iran, Hviderusland og Zimbabwe. (+ en antydning om Venezuela).

Seymour Hersh skrev i januar, at der var givet ordre om Special Forces indsats i 10 lande.

State of the Union Address nævner: Iran, 

I.h.t. Vince Cannistraro omfatter Rumsfelds liste: Iran, Syrien, Sudan. Algeriet, Yemen og Malaysia, hvortil kommer trusler i udvikling: Somalia, Indonesien, Philipinerne, Georgien.

Uanset de små forskelle i listerne er det markant, at de nævnte lande ligger strategisk for en kontrol med energitransporten - det fremhæver Engdahl som Bushregimets focus. Når man tager med i betragtning installeringen af 2000 US marines i Aceh - formelt som redningsindsats i forbindelse med tsunamien - så er der tale om en omringning af Kina med mulighed for blokering af olieforsyningen via Malaccastrædet

090305, CBS. Der er ingen ende på, hvad de amerikanere vil blande sig i. Nu siger den amerikanske ambassadør til Irland, Mitchell Reiss, at IRA skal opløse sig.

140305, The American Conservative. Patrick Buchannan: "Stillborn Empire". "It would seem multipolarism is making quite a comeback".

170305, Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, Canada: Pentagon har udarbejdet et nyt strategidokument for global militær dominans. Det indbefatter militære aktioner mod lande, der ikke er fjendtlige mod USA, men som er strategisk vigtige. Strategien skal være aktive, fokuseret på at forandre verden. Der skal især satses på at udsende mindre styrker, der skal optræne lokalt militær til kamp mod modstandsbevægelser. Det meste skal ske gennem indsats af private lejesoldatstyrker. Og derudover skal der satses på at afholde fremvoksende konkurrenter (læs Kina, Indien OG EU - som ikke nævnes direkte) fra i sætte spørgsmålstegn ved USAs dominans. Der kan derfor forudses et våbenkapløb mellem EU og USA - og en splittelse i EU mellem europæere og angelsaksere. De øgede bevillinger til militær vil gå ud over den civile økonomi. Strategipapiret plalægges forelagt Kongressen til orientering i 2006. [Sverige gjorde klogt i at se USAs ønske om adgang til at træne i Nordsverige i det lys !!].

Indstillingen af Wolfowitz til direktør for Verdensbanken ligger i klar forlængelse af dette strategipapir. Det er en hån mod "det internationale samfund". 180305, Deutsche Welle, 170305, CounterPunch.

230305, Jim Lobe, Asia Times. Quadrennial Defense Review skriver under "sårbarheder": "Vor styrke som nationalstat vil fortsat blive udfordret af dem, som anvender en "de svages strategi" med at bruge internationale fora, juridiske processer og terrorisme". [en ganske apparte sammenstilling]. Det slås yderligere fast, at Washington vil forlange ændring i enhver international restbestemmelse, der måtte indskrænke Washingtons handlefrihed. Bushs strategi med forebyggende angreb er opretholdt i dokumentet. Og USA vil indsætte sine tropper i stater, der ikke "udøver deres suverænitet ansvarligt".

280305, Financial Times. USAs efterretningstjenster arbejder med en hemmelig liste over 25 lande i hvilke ustabilitet kan føre til amerikansk intervention.

300305, International Herald Tribune. State Department bekræfter at embedsmænd har holdt møde med eksilsyrere. Mødet blev ledet af vicepræsidents Cheney datter Elizabeth Cheney. USA dannede efter 911 Syrian Reform Party.

300305, Ramtanu Maitra, Asia Times. USA spreder basre for at kontrollere Eurasien. USA bygger 9 nye baser i Afghanistan. Vist er Afghanistan langt fra stabilt - trods 4 års amerikanske tilstedeværelse. Derfor mener iagttagere, at det handler mere om en global ameikansk plan for flere små fleksible baser, der kan bruges som springbrædt for aktioner udenfor Afghanistan. Man forsøger at opbygge en afghansk hær på 70000 mand i 2006. Der er nu 20000, plus 17000 amerikanere og 5000 fra NATO. En talsmand for Karzai citeres for, at nye baser skal godkendes af det endnu ikke valgte afghanske parlament. 

Opiumproduktionen er steget fra 4200 ton i 2003 til 4950 ton i 2004 [hvordan man så får statistik på en ulovlig afgrøde]. Pentagon nægter at beskæftige sig med det problem - det vil nemlig irritere de krigsherrer, som amerikanernes krigsførelse hviler på.

Besættelsen af Afghanistan - kan man mene - handlede om at få baser i nærheden af 2 olierige områder og der hvor de 3 voksende magter - Rusland, Kina og Indien  mødes. 230205 skrev Kabul Journal, at USA vil dominere Iran, Uzbekistan og Kina ved at bruge Afghanistan som mlitærbase. Sindand Aer Base i Heratprovinsen er kun 100 km fra Iran.

Basen i Manas udenfor Kyrgyzstans hovedstad Bishkek kan ses i samme lys. Og basen i Qarshi Hanabad i Uzbekistan.

230405. The Guardian. USAs rapport "Patterns of Global terrorism" viste en stigning fra 172 væsentlige angreb i 2003 til 655 i 2004. Så Condoleezza Rice trak rapporten tilbage.

230405, Asia Times, Pepe Escobar. Fru Rice har haft er møde med Putin i Moskva. Hun fortalte ham, at der kunne forventes flere orange revolutioner i Ruslands baggård og at han ikke skal stille op til genvalg.

020505, The Nation, Naomi Klein, "The Rise of Disaster Capitalism". I august 2004 oprettedes "Kontoret for koordinatoren for genopbygning og stabilisering". Det lyder jo smukt. Men koordinatorens opgave er et udarbejde planer for en efterkonflikt-situation for 25 lande - og ingen af de lande er i konflikt - endnu. Planerne udarbejdes komplet med aftalte kontrakter med private entreprenører. Og de skal ikke genopbygge den gamle stat men skabe "demokratiske og markedsorienterede" nye stater. Se også Hvorfor er nogle lande fattige.

020505, Independent Institute, Ivan Eland fortæller, at Condoleezza Rice har afbrudt udgivelsen af udenrigsministeriets rapport: "Patterns of Global Terrorism" fordi embedsmændene i Det nationale Center mod terrorisme ikke ville skifte metode i opgørelsen, så tallene blev lavere. Eland opgiver 175 angreb i 2003 og 625 i 2004.

090505, The Australian. Det var USA, der sænkede Kursk med en torpedo i august 2000. Historien blev hemmeligholdt i et samarbejde mellem Clinton og Putin.

090505, The Hindu. Siddhardt Varadarajan analyserer Bush's tale i Riga om Jalta-aftalen. Han opfatter den som en opsigelse af sikkerhedssamarbejdet og en tilbagevenden til USAs politik før Hitlers invasion af Sovjetunionen i 1941 (Riga-gruppens (Kennan, brd. Dulles, Loy Henderson, Forrestal og Bullitt) totale afvisning af ethvert samarbejde med Sovjet. Sikkerhedssamarbejdet er grundlaget for FN, [så opsigelsen er i overensstemmelse med USAs nedbrydning af denne organisation, OJ].

090505, Information Clearing House, Sheila Samples. Abu Faraj al - Libbi - Al Qaeda's nr 3 mand - er ukendt for europæisk efterretningstjeneste, han fandtes ikke på FBIs liste over eftersøgte, eller på udenrigsministeriets liste over dem man ville betale for.

General Richard B Myers pralede for nylig af, at man var lige ved at få fat på al Zarqawi, men han sprang fra en pickup i farten og forsvandt til fods. Det er godt skuldret af en mand med kun et ben - og så med en flok special forces i hælene.

070605, Dave Lindorff, CounterPunch beretter at 9 franske militære jetfly, som deltog i en øvelse med den canadiske flåde i Atlanten ud for New Jersey, blev nægtet landingstilladelse på en amerikansk militærbase, da de på grund af storm havde opbrugt deres brændsel i utide. Ved udenrigsministeriets og Forbundsluftfartsmyndigheden hjælp fik de så tilladelse til at lande på Atlantic Citys civile lufthavn - til gene for den almindelige trafik !!

200705, Reuters. Det amerikanske senat har besluttet, at lande, der ikke udleverer personer, der er anklaget for forbrydelser i USA, ikke kan få ulandshjælp.

020805, Siddharth Varadarajan. [En almindelig påstand i det amerikanske udenrigspolitiske establishment er, at demokratier ikke fører krig mod hinanden] Thomas Friedman udtrykker samme sag sådan: 2 lande der er med i samme forsyningskæde (f.eks. Dell) vil aldrig kriges. Varadarajan argumenterer overbevisende på historisk basis for at synspunktet er ren propaganda.

040805, The Guardian. Simon Tisdall beretter at Richard Haass, tidligere højtstående embedsmand i Clinton og Bush [I ?] administrationerne har skrevet en bog: "The opportunity: America's moment to alter history's course". Heri foreslår han, at man afstår fra at udvikle nye atomvåben, skrotter Bushs doktrin om forebyggende krig og regimeskifte, bryder afhængigheden af olie og genforpligter sig til regelskabende internationale organisationer som FN. USAs interesser varetages bedst, hvis man giver afkald på hybris ideer om amerikansk exceptionalisme o.s.v. og modererer sig med et mere pragmatiskt, gensidig fordelagtigt samarbejde med opstigende magter son Europa [det står der !, OJ] og Kina. Det vigtigt at man opgiver evangeliet om at sprede demokrati, det er hverken ønskeligt eller praktisk.

Tidligere vicegeneralsekretær i FN, Brian Urquhart, har anmeldt bogen og understreger de formidable indenrigspolitiske hindringer, der består i USA, for at virkeliggøre kursskiftet. Specielt er virksomhedernes magt gennem lobbyvirksomhed et problem. Han sætter også spørgsmålstegn ved den bestående amerikanske ledelse. Og så funderer han over om virkelig en verden i hurtig udvikling vil være ligeså parat til at acceptere et amerikansk lederskab, som man hidtil har været.

110805. Canada.com afslører et eksempel på USAs hykleri. Her i handelspolitikken. Man har pålagt Canadas tømmereksport en antidumpingtold. Den er kendt ulovlig af NAFTA (den nordatlantiske frihandelsorganisation). Herefter skal USA tilbagebetale 5 milliarder ulovligt opkrævet told. Det vil man ikke. [Så meget for den frie handel, OJ]. Samme problemer findes mellem USA og EU, hhv. Japan - med andre varer, 010805, al Jazira.

160805, Mosnews.com. USAs lyst til at lege verdenspolitimand røber sig i et nyt eksempel. Tidligere russisk atomminister Jevgenij Adamov (1998 - 2001) er tilbageholdt i Schweitz på amerikansk anmodning. Han beskyldes for pengevask og skattesvindel. Adamov afviser beskyldningerne og siger, at anklagerne opstod i 1998, da han besøgte Kina, Indien og Iran for at sælge russisk kerneteknologi. Gore besøgte ham derefter i Moskva for at tale han til at droppe kontrakterne.

160905, Foreign Policy in Focus. "Giving Democracy a Bad Name". USA formodes at have skabt nye "demokratier" i Afghanistan og Iraq, men disse bestræbelser giver demokratiet et dårligt ry.

190905, Mickey Z på Information Clearing House: Den amerikanske våbenindustri ligger som nummer 2 efter landbruget m.h.t. direkte statsstøtte; 80 % af USAs våbeneksport til udviklingslande går til ikke-demokratiske regimer; den amerikanske regering træner soldater fra 70 lande; USA eksporterer våben for 18.5 milliarder USD, Rusland for 4.6 og Frankrig for 4.4.

190905, International Herald Tribune. Bush ser forvirret til, mens nye strategiske alliancer udenom USA dannes. Kina, Rusland, Indien f.eks. Indien og Pakistan enes om at modsætte sig straf af Iran.

311005, The New Yorker, Jeffrey Goldberg interviewer Brent Scowcroft (national sikkerhedsrådgiver for George H W Bush; 1ste Bush) "BREAKING RANKS". Denne artikel illustrerer fremragende, både hvad man er enige om, og hvor vandene skiller i den amerikanske udenrigspolitik. 231005, Steve Clemons, foromtale af dette interview.

041205, World Peace Herald. Thomas Donnelly, American Enterprise Institute, taler om en ny "de 4 store" begyndelse til en alliance, mellem USA, UK, Japan og Indien.

051205, Lew Rockwell. USA har nu tropper i 142 lande (der er 191 medlemmer i FN). Næsten 70.000 i Tyskland, 35.000 i Japan, 32000 i Korea, 12000 i Italien, 11000 i UK ! Og nogen i Iran ?!

Efteråret 2005. The American Interest. Zbigniew Brzezinski: "The Dilemma Of The Last Sovereign". Nu er ikke engang denne gamle imperialist tilfreds med Bush-regeringen (måske er det bare opvarmning til valgene i 2007). Han markerer modstand til Iraqkrigen, som afledte opmærksomheden fra Afghanistan og bin Laden. Han nævner terrorvarslernes betydning for Bush' opinionstal; er bekymret over det øgede USA-fjendskab overalt i den muslimske verden; de regionale samarbejdssystemer med slet skjulte antiamerikanske undertoner; pan-europæiske og pan-asiatiske alliancer i stedet for transatlantiske. Den kortsynede politik efter 9/11 øger USAs sårbarhed og underminerer legitimiteten i dets internationale førrerstilling. Der sker en global politisk opvågning, som er socialt massiv og politisk radikal [var det bare så vel]. Han sammenligner med 1789, 1848, 1917 - og Italien 1922 og Tyskland 1933. Han nævner antal døde pr år, globalt:

USA må genskabe sin internationale legitimitet. Indsatsen for demokrati må knyttes til betsræbelser på at fjerne den ekstreme fattigdom og en gradvis udligning af den globale ulighed. Til det kræves et selvsikkert Amerika som føler sig virkelig forpligtet af en ny vision om global solidaritet. Brzezinski vil have de nye internationalistiske bestræbelser ved siden af de eksisterende FNorganer, men åbner - på sigt - for accept af ICC. Det nye: Global Security Summit, skal være et G14, med 3 europæiske lande (GB, F, D), 5 asiatiske (USAvennerne Indien, Pakistan, Indonesien, Japan og så Kina), 2 afrikanske (Nigeria og Sydafrika), 2 latinamerikanske (vennerne Brazilien og Mexico). Her er sandelig ikke lagt op til demokrati eller bare medbestemmelse. Der skal ikke løbes nogen risiko.

Der er grund til at ønske Brzezinski og G14 er snarlig og fredelig død.

180106, Noam Chomsky giver Amnesty Internationals Annual Lecture. Om den generklærede krig mod terroren. Det understreges, at Bushemændene er gengangere fra tidligere administrationer, at der ikke er tale om en fundamentalt ny politik. Nürnbergdommen blev omhyggeligt udformet, så allierede forbrydelser (terrorbombing af civile befolkninger) kunne holdes udenfor. Det samme gælder terroren. Terror er planlagt anvendelse af vold eller trussel om vold for st opnå politiske, religiøse eller ideologiske mål. Men anvender man denne rimelige definition, så bliver USA den største og hyppigste anvender af terrorisme. Derfor holdes statsterrorismen udenfor den amerikanske definition.

060206,Salt Lake Tribune, Patrick Shea. Så er USA tilbage med mord på udenlandske ledere. Shea arbejdede for Church' komite, 1975 - 76. Komiteen endte med et enstemmigt lovforslag om at forbyde politiske mord. Kongressen vedtog ikke dette forslag !! Men Carter udstedte ved sin tiltræden i 1977 en Executive Order med samme indhold. (Vicepræsident Mondale havde været medlem af Church' komite). Denne bestemmelse er ophævet af Bush2. Shea gør op med propagandasnak a la "hvis vi havde kunne snigmyrde Hitler". Problemet er fejltagelserne og de mange tilfældige, der ryger med i købet. Det skaber så mange nye fjender, at det ikke kan betale sig. Shea henviser til den amerikanske forfatnings 5. tilføjelse, der giver enhver ret til en ordentlig proces, inden der fældes nogen dom. Det samme er nødvendigt i de internationale forhold.

060206, The Australian. Pentagon har lavet en ny 20 års plan, der indeholder stationering - ofte hemmeligt - af amerikanske soldater i dusiner af lande for at bekæmpe terror og andre utraditionelle trusler. Special Operations Forces øges med 15 %. Ubemandede fly bliver næsten fordoblet. Rumsfeld forlanger at de allierede skal øge deres militær tilsvarende. "De planlægger at genetabler et Kalifat, som de håber en dag vil omfatte alle kontinenter", citeres Rumsfeld for.

070206, The Guardian. Beskriver Pentagons 4 årlige forsvarsanalyse til Kongressen, der handler om en konflikt uden afgrænsning i tid og rum, som man vil rekruttere internationale allierede til. Det vil give politiske, økonomiske og militære problemer for amnge europæiske NATO medlemmer inklusive England og for regeringer i Mellemøsten. Analysen forudser storstilede langvarige, irregulære krige med operationer indenfor understrykkelse af oprør, sikkerhed, stabilisering, overgang og genopbygning. Budgettet (det amerikanske) er på 550 milliarder USD. Udover det, der nævnes ovenstående fra The Australian, nævnes psykologiske operationer og enheder for civile affærer og konventionelt bevæbnede ICBMer. De europæiske landes sikkerhedsorganer skal koordineres tættere med de amerikanske, siger Mark Kimmitt, vicedirektør for USAs Central Command, der dækker Mellemøsten.

100206, International Herald Tribune. William Pfaff. Nu har krigen mod terror skiftet navn til Den lange Krig. I State of the Union talen fik Bush sagt, at det handler om at slå den radikale islam. [Så vi er tilbage til korstoget, ikke underligt, at nogen reagerer på JyllandsPestens tegninger.] Men, selvom man regner 9/11 ofrene med, så er antallet af amerikanere dræbt ved international terrorisme siden man begyndte opgørelsen heraf i 1960erne på samme niveau som antallet der er dræbt af lynnedslag, eller vildtulykker eller alvorlige allergiske reaktioner mod peanuts. I næsten alle år er det totale antal mennesker i verden dræbt af internationale terrorister lavere end det antal, der drukner i badekar i USA. [Den slags tal forklarer jo hvorfor man må skifte navn på krigen].

130206, Common Dreams. Thom Hartmann forklarer at frygten i forbindelse med krigen mod terror bare er en gentagelse af et nummer som Rumsfeld og Cheney gav allerede i 1970erne. Den gang gjaldt det en kraftig overvurdering af Sovjetunionen. Det handlede om at sabotere Kissingers detente. Også dengang talte de imod CIAs vurderinger. "The Conimittee on the Present Danger" var et af deres redskaber. Den gennem frygten foranledigede oprustning gjorde dem rige. Tom Ridge har indrømmet at mange af "terror alerts" i 2004 byggede på et ringe grundlag og faktisk gennemførtes mod hans protest.

Da muslimerne sidder på 80 % af Verdens olie skal de lægges for had så det kan retfærdiggøres at bekrige og besætte deres lande. Projektet fremmes, hvis der kan sås ufred muslimer imellem eller mellem muslimer og ikke muslimer i samme land, Michel Chossudovsky.

080306, The Guardian, Democracy For Breakfast. Gorbatjovs udtalelser i anledning af 75-årsdagen. ""The United States has not found its role after it became the only superpower. Until it gets rid of the victor's complex, it will make more mistakes. The younger Bush made a big error in Iraq...He defended his cold war legacy and remained intensely suspicious of the west. He claimed British intelligence helped falsify data over weapons of mass destruction and that the invasion of Iraq was "a blow against the Security Council and international law and now we have a terrible degradation of the situation in the Middle East".He said the biggest threat to Russia's political stability in the next two years, as a successor is sought to replace Vladimir Putin iti 2008, would come from outside the country because the west wanted to keep Russia weak..."There are those - not only the US but also our closest western friends - who like to keep Russia in a semi-strangulated state. Sometimes they are... afraid of competitors. As Russia becomes stronger suddenly our friends in the west begin to get excited... He heavily criticised the Bush administration's new security doctrine as "in complete contradiction to what we agreed with Reagan". The pair historically agreed there could not be victors in nuclear war. "But now they [the US] are saying again that nuclear arms can be used as a first-strike weapon," he added....He said Mr Yeltsin left Russia to the peril of the free market, allowing a sell-off of state assets that was "simply theft. We'll deal with the consequences... for a long time in the future."...Indeed, his most overt criticism of Mr Putin was for being too soft on four British diplomats accused in January of using a hi-tech transmitter hidden in a rock to spy on Russia. "Putin decided to do nothing. I would act differently. You know we had a war with Margaret Thatcher - who could expel more spies? I let her know that I'd take it to the end.""

080306, ICH, Mike Whitney, Shock And Awe; The sequel. "...the US insists that Iran be deprived of the same right that is afforded to every other signatory of the NPT.What gives Washington the right to rescind an internationally-recognized treaty? ...White House press secretary Scott McClellan [said] It cannot be allowed to pursue enrichment in any capacity on any scale that would allow the regime to to develop technologies needed to develop nuclear weapons....The media smokescreen has obscured Iran's attempts at "confidence-building" by agreeing to forgo all "industrial scale" enrichment for two years even though it is allowed under the terms of the NPT...These are the same conditions that were placed on Saddam. Iran knows that the US will use these "transparency measures" to ferret through every inch of the country; rummaging through armories military bases, palaces, barracks, private residences; anywhere that might annoy, provoke, humiliate or harass the current regime."  

090306, CounterPunch, JOHN WALSH, Neocon Advocates Civil War in Iraq as "Strategic" Policy. Daniel Pipes Finds Comfort in Muslims Killing Muslims. "The only real question is whether the civil war emerged spontaneously as Wurmser, Perle and Feith predicted or whether the Iraqis had to be goaded into it by the U.S. Given all the intrigues and mysteries in Iraq, inclucling the bombinq of the Askariya shrine in Samarra and the shadowy death squads and torture chambers which the U.S. claims to know nothing  about, the latter seems more likely as of now." Og det ser ud som om, det er en politik, der nu føres ikke bare i Iraq, men også i Somalia, Sudan og hvem ved hvor. OJ

090306, Cyprus Mail, Gwynne, Dyer Logic out the window at the White House. "The biggest pitfall in predicting the behavior of radical groups like the inner circle of the Bush administration is that you keep telling yourself that they would never actually do whatever it is they're talking about. Surely they must realize that acting like that would cause a disaster. Then they go right ahead and do it...John Bolton told a group of visiting British politicians last week. "We can hit different points along the line. You only have to take out one part of their nuclear operation to take the whole thing down." In other words, he was calmly proposing an illegal attack on a sovereign state, possibly involving nuclear weapons."

100306, VoltaireNet. Salim Lamrani "Venezuela in Washington's Sights". Chávez følger Cubas eksempel ved at bevæbne 1 million frivillige. (''Why did the gringos invade half of the world except  Cuba ?")

150306, ZMag, Edward S. Herman: Uncle Chutzpah and His Willing Executioners on the Dire Iran Threat: With Twelve Principles of War Propaganda in Ongoing Service.

170306, LRB/ICH. Professorerne John Mearsheimer og Stephen Walt skriver en indgående analyse af Israel lobbyens indflydelse på den amerikanske udenrigspolitik, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy".

190306, The Washington Note, Steven Clemons. Opstiller en teori om en Realistisk linie i amerikansk udenrigspolitik, Kissinger, Scowcroft, Rice, der som aktuel intellektuel ordfører har Robert Kaplan, der lige har haft en længere samtale med Bush.

220306, Paul Craig Roberts på Lew Rockwell. Et væsentligt indlæg om, hvad der er amerikansk. "What's become of Americans ". Citat: "If this story is true, under Donald Rumsfeld and George Bush's leadership, proud and honorable U.S. Marines have degenerated into the Waffen SS. Those of us raised on John Wayne war movies find this very hard to take."

250306, Spiegel har et interview med Francis Fukuyama, en af de neokonservative teoretikere. Indledningsspørgsmålet er: Hvorfor tager du nu afstand fra dem ? Svaret er krigen i Iraq, som han allerede i 2002 konstaterede ikke var nogen god ide. Det bliver der 3 A4 sider ud af, uden at man egentlig kan se, hvad der var udslaggivende, bl.a. fordi han siger meget, som han må vide ikke er sandt. Et problem, som kan uddrages, var, at man ikke forberedte amerikanerne på 10 års besættelse, som han mener er nødvendigt for at opnå et demokrati. Et par citater:

"America, they thought, was more moral than other countries and other people would recoghize that our hegemony is much more benevolent than other empires of the past. That is something they were wrong about. ... It was almost as though the Bush Administration went out of its way to annoy the rest of the world. The Kyoto Protocol was a good example.  ...Now, when we talk about democracy, people think about Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo."

280306, ICH, Congressman Ron Paul, Before the US House of Representatives, March 28,2006, Making the World Safe for Christianity "The Muslim world is not fooled by our talk about spreading democracy and values. The evidence is too ovenvhelming that we do not hesitate to support dictators and install puppet governments when it serves our interests. When democratic elections result in the elevation of a leader or party not to our liking, we do not  hesitate for a minute to undermine that government. This hypocrisy is rarely recognized by the American people. It's much more comfortable to believe in slogans, to believe that we're defending our goodness and spreading true liberty. We accept this and believe strongly in the cause, strongly enough to sacrifice many of our sons and daughters, and stupendous amounts of money, to spread our ideals through force. Pointing out the lack of success is taboo. It seems of little concern to many members of Congress that we lack both the moral right and constitutional authority to impose our will on other nations. The toughest task is analyzing what we do from their perspective. We should try harder to place ourselves in the shoes of those who live in the Arab countries where our efforts currently are concentrated. We are outraged by a Muslim country that would even consider the death penalty for a Christian convert. But many Muslims see all that we do as a reflection of Western Christianity, which to them includes Europe and America. They see everything in terms of religion. When our bombs and sanctions kill hundreds of thousands of their citizens, they see it as an attack on their religion by Christians. To them our actions represent a crusade to change their culture and their political systems. They do not see us as having noble intentions. Cynicism and realism tell them we're involved in the Middle East to secure the oil we need. Our occupation and influence in the holy lands of the Middle East will always be suspect. This includes all the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Naively believing otherwise will guarantee continuing hostilities in Iraq. Our meddling will remain an incitement for radicals to strike us here at home in future terrorist attacks. All the intelligence gathering in the world will serve little purpose if we don't come to understand exactly why they hate us - despite the good intentions that many Americans hold dear."

310306, Democracy Now. Noam Chomsky on Failed States "The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy"

100406, The Guardian. Bringer et eksempel på forberedelserne til "Den lange Krig" - den, der skal tage over efter "Krigen mod Terrorismen". Den lange Krig skal vare i 20 år og en del af forberedelsen sker i en trailerpark i Fort MacDill, ved Tampa i Florida, hvor en stor koalition er repræsenteret.

280406, Reuters. US says world safer, despite 11,000 attacks in '05. Artiklen er en omtale af USAs udenrigsministeriums årlige landerapport om terrorisme. The report said, "This data cannot be meaningfully compared to previous years since it suggests that attacks on civilians may have been occurring at a substantially higher rate than was reflected in previous years' reporting and accounting." 

030506, ICH, Chalmers Johnson Exporting the American Model. Rice og Rumsfeld fløj til Baghdad straks man havde fået valgt en premierminister, de kunne acceptere, for at fortælle ham, hvad han skulle gøre for demokratiet. Så ved alle hvis dukke han er. Ellers indeholder artiklen C.J.s minimumsdefinition af demokrati (First, the acceptance within a society of the principle that public opinion matters. There must be some internal balance of power or separation of powers, so that it is impossible for an individual leader to become a dictator. In particular, I look for the existence and practice of administrative law - in other words, an independent, constitutional court with powers to declare null and void laws that contravene democratic safeguards. Third, there must be some agreed-upon procedure for getting rid of unsatisfactory leaders.)

Federation of American Scientists har en liste på 201 USA militære operationer fra 2. Verdenskrig til 9/11. Listen findes i Gore Vidal in Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace; How We Got To Be So Hated, pp.22-41.). I intet af disse tilfælde blev en demokratisk regering det direkte resultat.

030506, FP/ICH. Fhv. Gen. William E. Odom Cut and Run? You Bet. The United States now garners as much international esteem as Russia. 

060506, Socialist Worker, "There is a terrorist organisation operating in Britain today with the full knowledge and support of Tony Blair and the New Labour government.

This organisation has tortured and murdered people throughout the world, overthrown democratically elected governments and helped sustain brutal dictatorships in power. 

It has sponsored wars in Africa and Central America that have cost hundreds of thousands of lives. And it is still engaged in all these activities today. Despite this it has facilities in Britain and its agents mix freely with members of the British security services. 

The organisation in question is the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)."

170506, Pravda, Dr. Bulent Gokay: "Iraq, Iran and the end of petrodollar: The waning influence of the USA in the Asian century". I 1945 havde USA 80 % af verdens guld og stod for 40 % af verdens produktion. I 1965 forlangte de Gaulle guld for 300 millioner USD, som USA skyldte Frankrig. 150871 måtte USA opgive USDs konvertibilitet til guld. [I 1973 skaffede USA sig yderligere godt 30 års respit ved at få Saudiarabien og andre OPEClande til at love at købe US Treasury bonds - amerikanske stataobligationer - for deres olieoverskud, så kunne de til gengæld forhøje prisen uden amerikanske protester - pengene ville jo ende i USA.  Nu skylder USA et antal tusinde milliarder USD, OJ]. Det betyder at den økonomiske dominans er forsvundet, med Sovjetunionen forsvandt meget af den vestlige verdens automatiske lydighed. Man kan derfor se USAs stigende anvendelse af militærmagt, som den sidste mulighed for indflydelse, USA stadig har. 2/3 af verdens valutareserver ligger dog sradig i USD.

220506 ?, Deutsche Welle. Dennis Stute interviewer Zbigniew Brzezinski. Military Option not a Profitable Course of Action. Den iranske præsident er ikke som den amerikanske en politisk hovedperson. Han har meget begrænsede beføjelser. Brzezinski (og Kissinger) anbefaler mere aktive direkte forhandlinger. En bombning af de iranske atomanlæg vil have en større krise i Den persiske Golf til resultat, og måske en fordobling af olieprisen, hvad der vil føre til en international økonomisk krise. Iran har storre muligheder for indirekte at skabe problemer for USA, via Afghanistan, Iraq og med Hezbollahs hjælp via Libanon. Det er ikke usandsynligt, at Itan vil stille sig tilfreds med at vise sin evne til at producere kernevåben, uden faktisk at fremstille dem, som Japan. Brzezinski vil helst være fri for et atomart Iran, men er Pakistan mere stabilt og forudsigeligt ?

USA bør med den iraqiske regering aftale en dato for troppetilbagetrækning, den bør offentliggøres. Iraq skal derefter indkalde til en konference for naboerne, som vil være interesserede i at hjælpe den irakiske regering med at skabe og opretholde stabilitet, f.eks. gennem en fredsbevarende styrke. Og når USA er ude, skal man indkalde til en donorkonference til finansiering af genopbygningen. "Stute: A withdrawal could reduce the credibility of future threats against governments. Brzezinski: Do you think the present performance increases credibility ?"

300506, The Independent. Noam Chomsky: "Hvorfor det er slut for Amerika." Der er aktuelt 3 store anledninger til bekymring for menneskehedens fremtid. Risikoen for en kernevåbenkrig, Miljøødelæggelse og den kendsgerning at regeringen for Verdens ledende magt handler på en måde, der øger sandsynligheden for disse katastrofer. I modsætning til Europa vil verken Indien eller Kina lade sig kue af USAs pression. Og Bushregeringen har haft held med den vanskelige opgave at skabe fjendtlige stemninger i Canada. Sydamerika, som i høj grad styredes via IMF, har set og registreret, at det gik fremad for Argentina, da man forkastede IMFs forslag og handlede uafhængigt. [Der er tale om et ekstrakt af "Failed States"].

020606, The Guardian. Ewen MacAskill, US blocking international deal on fighting Aids. Endnu engang blokerer USA en nødvendig international beslutning af ekstremistisk "kristne" årsager. "America says any mention of condoms has to be matched by abstinence and faithfulness." [of which they have such wonderful examples at the highest levels - Clinton, Cheney (the "huntingtrip", when he shot his companion, OJ] Og i denne sag ser vi netop "de forenede fundamentalister", USA og Organisation of the Islamic Conference, stå sammen i en uhellig alliance.

050606, Lindy Greene: Terrorism Quiz. Giver vigtig viden.

050606, Chicago Tribune. U.S. taxpayers financed human trafficking, report says. Rapporten er Det amerikanske Udenrigsministeriums årlige Trafficking in Persons Report. Den viser at forsvarsministeriets private entreprenørers underentreprenører optræder på en måde, der bringer dem i konflikt med udenrigsministeriets kriterier for trafficking. Forsvarsministeriet har strammet sine regler op - men udenrifsministeriet har stadig problemer på sit eget område !!! Rapporten findes på: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2006/

060606, Globalresearch. "U.S. Role in Darfur, Sudan Oil reserves rivaling those of Saudi Arabia ?" Beskriver, at USA driver traditionel imperialistisk politik med del og hersk. Netop nu kører en kampagne om at Stoppe Folkemordet i Darfur. Det handler dels om den sædvanlige antiislampolitik, men derbæst om at finde et påskud for at få amerikanske soldater ind.

130606, Reuters, "US insists on right to develop arms for outer space", det sker på  Conference on Disarmament i Geneve.

140606, Spacewar. us to hit back if NKorea tests missile. [Det er åbenbart helt i orden, at USA udvikler raketter og atomvåben og ubemandede dræberfly, men gør nogen anden det, så hævner USA sig, OJ]. I september aftalte USA og Nordkorea, at Nordkorea ville indstille sine forsøg med atomvåben mod at få økonomisk hjælp og andre fordele. I mellemtiden har USA indført sanktioner mod landet. [Den slags gør USA til en yderst utroværdig partner, som man ikke kan indgå aftaler med, OJ].

170606, ICH, Jason Miller, Exceptional Americans Manifest Their Destiny: And to Hell with the Consequences... "Contrary to the "catapulted propaganda", Enron, Haditha, and Abu Ghraib were not isolated incidents or the work of a "few bad apples". American savagery and oppressive behavior pervades our society and predates our nation's birth. Building its patriarchal wealth on the backs of Black slaves and cheap labor while acquiring its territory through Native American genocide, predatory exploitation of non-Anglos, the poor, women, and the working class emerged as a pillar of America's socioeconomic "success" before we even declared our independence...Consider some of the freedoms the United States is spreading: 1. Freedom to work under miserable conditions for a pittance. 2. Freedom to exist in an environment permeated with depleted uranium. 3. Freedom to sell precious resources to soulless multinational corporations at garage sale prices. 4. Freedom to experience a Kafkaesque nightmare including arrest with no charges, no trial to determine guilt or innocence, the endurance of torture, and indefinite detention. 5. Freedom to realize the inherent inferiority of one's culture, religion, and language, and to cast them aside like sacks of rank-smelling garbage. 6. Freedom to be maimed or kiled if one dares to reject the "gifts" of these freedoms."

290606, Skånskan, LARS V ANDERSSON, Krönikan, Ett hot mot världsfreden. President Bush må tycka att det är absurt men faktum kvarstår. En majoritet av européerna anser att USA är ett hot mot stabiliteten i världen.

010706, WorldNetDaily. Gordon Prather Another fine mess you've gotten us into, Condi ! The U.S.-India-Iran-Pakistan-Russia mess. 

060706, The Nation, Stephen F Cohen: The New American Cold War. Beskriver USAs fortsatte kolde krig mod Rusland og den ødelæggelse af det russiske samfund, der skete under Jeltsin, beskrives som et Weimar-scenarie. Artiklen hylder Putin, som ansvarlig for at holde Rusland sammen, med støtte fra 70 - 75 % af befolkningen (der mangler kilde for denne rating). USA har en opfattelse af at have vundet den kolde krig, og vinderen tager det hele. Man forsøger at presse Rusland til eftergivenhed på alle områder. Man har glemt, at Gorbatjov indgik aftaler med Reagon/Bush I, at den kolde krigs afslutning byggede på en aftale mellem de to magter. Aftalen indeholdt bl.a. løfter om ikke at udvide NATO østover. USA har hele tiden, også under Clinton, undladt at overholde sin del. Det har betydet, at Rusland nu koncentrerer sig om et partnerskab med Kina og Indien og støtter Iran og andre antiamerikanske elementer i Mellemøsten.

Selv Solsjenitsyn protesterer mod Vestens omringning af Rusland. Russerne opfatter det derhen, at USA antikommunisme i virkeligheden mere var rettet mod Rusland end mod kommunismen. I maj/juni blokerede lokale en havn og nogle veje på Krim i anledning af et amerikansk flådebesøg.

Det værste er, at den nye kolde krig savner de instrumenter for forhandling og samarbejde, der var skabt under den første kolde krig, og som spillede den vigtige rolle at forhindre krig ved en fejltagelse. Risikoen for kernevåbenkrig er altså større end nogensinde. En amerikansk plan om at installere konventionelle sprænghoveder på raketter, der hidtil kun har været anvendt til kernevåben øger risikoen ved at skabe usikkerhed om, hvad der affyres !

070706, Lewrockwell, Paul Craig Roberts: "Hegemonic Tyrant Courts Doom". "The answer is, well, you see, if we permit North Korea to develop any weapon with which they might be able to stand up to us on some issue critical to North Korea, well, they might not do as we want them to do. [Ashton] Carter could not conceive of a world in which any country existed that might be able to behave differently than the US dictates. Ambassador Hill agreed, but he came at it in a different way. Hill's view is that it is China's, Japan's, and South Korea's responsibility to make North Korea behave as the US wants it to behave. Both Hill and Carter agreed that no country, with the exception of Israel, has a right to any interests of its own unless it is an interest that coincides with US interests. No other interest is legitimate." [Det er nok desværre en præcis fremstilling af hele det amerikanske udenrigspolitiske establishments opfattelse !!!! OJ]. "Gentle reader, consider what it means when our government believes other countries have no right to their own interests unless they coincide with US interests. It means that we are the tyrant country. We cannot be the tyrant country without being perceived as the tyrant country. Consequently, the rest of the world unites against us." [Det håber jeg, Roberts snart får ret i !!! OJ].

270706, The Guardian, Sidney Blumenthal. "The Neocon Resurgence". Israels offensiv mod Hezbollah har genoplivet de neoconservative. Frk. Rice taler om et nyt Mellemøsten. 

270706, Steven Clemons, The Washington Note, siger at senator Lincoln Chafee var den eneste overraskelse ved høringerne forud for genoptagelse af godkendelsen af John Bolton som FNambassadør.

080806, Asia Times. Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke: "The loser In Lebanon: The Atlantic alliance". USA vil have en international styrke i Libanon - til at afvæbne Hezbollah for Israel. Det gav anledning til en heftig ordveksling i FN mellem Bolton og Jean-Marc de La Sabliere. Bolton fik sagt, at man ikke kan sammenligne de israelske døde med de libanesiske (fordi Libanon huser "terrororganisationen" Hezbollah). En FN dilomat citeres for at Israel-Hezbollah konflikten kan blive enden på det traditionelle diplomatiske samarbejde mellem USA og Europa, USA kan blive nødt til at vælge mellem den strategiske alliance med Europa og venskabet med Israel.

160806, ICH, Chris Floyd: "Asses Bearing Gold: Of Neo-Cons and Nabobs". Understreger den vigtige kendsgerning, at selvom de neokonservative blev smidt ud i morgen, ja selv om de aldrig havde været der, ville det ikke gøre den store forskel. De virkeligt skyldige sidder i det amerikanske establishments bestyrelseslokaler. Der er en dommedagssandsynlighed, fordi det næste mål, Iran, kan ikke klares uden kernevåben.

160806, Los Angeles Times, Group Says Iran Is 'Not a Crisis'. 21 tidligere generaler og embedsmænd siger at den hårde linie underminerer USAs sikkerhed.

(I Connecticut har antikrigskandidaten Ned Lamont slået Joe Lieberman).

180806, OneWorld, Aaron Glantz: "Bush Must Negotiate to Make America Safer, Say Former Generals". 21 tidligere generaler og sikkerhedsmedarbejdere har skrevet et åbent brev til Bush, hvori de foreslår en kursændring og forhandlinger med Iran, Iraq og Nordkorea.

240806, Time, Exclusive: The Pentagon Plans for an African Command. [Det er da utroligt, hvad de skal blande sig i. Vi skal vel have en oliekrig i området omkring Nigeria.

040906, ICH, James Petras: "Economic Empire Building and Domestic Decay". De multinationale selskaber låner nu penge til deres virksomhedsovertagelser på det lokale marked. Det reducerer valutarisici. [Og betyder at et land selv betaler for at blive overtaget af den amerikanske økonomiske magtelite, OJ]. Petras nævner den amerkanske landbrugsstøtte som væsentligste årsag til sammanebruddet for liberaliseringsforhandlngerne i Doha. [EU er der på samme hold - men der er ingen anledning til at græde over, at man ikke nåede et resultat der. OJ]. USA dominerer det asiatiske rismarked, det akrikanske bomuldsmarked og det latinamerikanske soyamarked, i kraft af sin landbrugsstøtte.

090906, CS, Patrick J.Buchanan: "America's Ideologue in Chief". Buchanan går i rette med Bush' [og Clintons] påstand, at demokratier hverken angriber hinanden eller truer freden. I 1812 var USA i krig med England, der sloges mod Napoleon. Krigen mellem staterne, der var vel ikke nogen af dem, der var udemokratiske ? Boerkrigen ? Første Verdenskrig. Og så er det da også demokratier (Israel, India, Britain, France, the United States), der har en særlig forkærlighed for atomvåben. Bush' anden påstand, at borgere, der kan melde sig ind i et fredeligt politisk parti, går ikke ind i en terrororganisation. Her henviser Buchanan til Rote Armee Fraktion, De røde Brigader, Puertoricanere, Londons undergrundsbanebombere. Buchanan understreger, at Hamas, Hezbollah, Det muslimske Broderskab og Ahmedinejad er bragt til magten af de autokratiske styrer i Mellemøsten, der forsøger at tilbageholde fjendtligheden mod USA og Israel.

160906, Asia Times, FIGHTING FORCES Coaxing the unwilling. Amerikanerne er heldigvis ikke så krigeriske, som deres regering. Det kniber for det amerikanske militær at skaffe folk. Og det selvom man tager revl og krat - og rekrutterer fattige udlændinge med et løfte om borgerskab.

210906, UPI, Analysis: Mideast woes alarm U.S. experts. Der er tale om et møde på tænketanken Green Institute. Nogen af eksperterne på det møde gik så vidt som til at anbefale øjeblikkelig tilbagetrækning af tropperne fra Mellemøsten.

220906, Los Angeles Times: "Anti-Americanism Is Providing a Glue". FNs generalforsamling beskrives som "outpouring of anti-American rhetoric". Det viser, hvordan vrede over USA[s politik] forener udviklingslandene, som det ikke er set siden 1980erne. Selv langtids allierede er kritiske.

280906, Timothy Garton Ash: "Let's bolster this subterranean shift in US foreign policy while we can". Ash er som altid lidt verdensfjern og præget af sin nærhed til de besluttende cirkler. Men derfor kan man jo alligevel i det mindste håbe, at han har ret i, at der er en ændring undervejs. Men vedtagelsen af Loven om militærkommissioner, der giver Bush diktatoriske beføjelser, peger ikke i retning af, at evt. ændringer er nået ind i Kongressen.

051006, Amerikansk demonstrationsdag mod Bushregimet. http://worldcantwait.net/ 

061006, Global Research, Michel Chossudovsky: "Cold War Shivers": War Preparations in the Middle East and Central Asia. "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." I forbindelse med SCO og CSTO øvelser, hvor russiske fly nærmede sig Alaskas kyst, blev amerikanske jagere sendt op, for at afvise det/m. (260906).

171006, Court Rules Against Israeli Extremists. Efterfølgerne af  Rabbi Meir Kahane er sat på USAs liste over terrorgrupper i 2003. Gruppen har anlagt sag mod regeringen i den anledning - den mulighed har de muslimske grupper ikke, de får ikke besked om, at de står der. En forbundsappeldomstol har fundet regeringens handling begrundet. Gruppens påstand var, at hvis man ikke kunne finde udtalelser, der opfordrede til mord, så var betegnelsen terroristgruppe ikke begrundet i amerikansk ret. Domstolen "læser ikke forbundslovgivningen så snævert". I min ordbog er man kun terrorist, hvis man begår terrorhandlinger, ytringer er beskyttet af ytringsfriheden. Noget andet er særdeles farligt, som f.eks. den svenske lovgivning om racistiske ytringer, som man dømte SSUformanden efter. Det svenske socialdemokrati, partiledelse, statsminister, SSUs forretningsudvalg o.s.v. burde tage afstand fra hendes udtalelser, men en dom betyder en ganske uacceptabel indskrænkning af ytringsfriheden, således også overfor Kahane Chai. Det er iøvrigt yderst betænkeligt, at en domstol ikke læser loven snævert, når det drejer sig om en lov, der indskrænker borgernes rettigheder.

201006, Asia Times, Ehsan Ahrari US turns space into its colony. Bush har underskrevet en executive order, der fastslår, at USA: afviser fremtidige nedrustningsaftaler der vil begrænse USAs fleksibilitet i rummet og at USA vil forhindre anhver fjendtlig interesse adgang til rummet. (Også omtalt af BBC, 181006, og her er et godt eksempel på, at BBC beskytter sig mod beskyldningerne om at være venstrevredet, ved at køre Blairs propagandalinie. "..space capabilities hostile to US national interests.." bliver i overskriften til "..hostile purposes..". Det sidste giver indtryk af våben, det første kan være en fredelig GPSsatellit uden for USAs system.)

201006, counterpunch, William Blum: "Don't Look Back - Who Said Clinton Didn't Kill Anybody ?" Blum nævner: Jugoslavien, Somalia, Ecuador, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Iraq og Cuba som eksempler - med en kort beskrivelse. Budskabet er, der er ingen grund til at længes tilbage, selvom cowboyen ligner en karikatur. [For os andre, der ikke direkte lever under ham, har han den fordel, at vore regeringer får lidt sværere ved at begrunde deres følgagtighed overfor USA, OJ].

211006 ?, Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), Knowledge Networks har lavet en opinionsundersøgelse i USA forud for valget til kongressen i november. 26 % støtter den nuværende udenrigspolitik, 71 % vil have en ny. Det er bemærkelsesværdigt, at 43 % af republikanerne ønsker en ny udenrigspolitik. 55 % af de adspurgte ville gå i forhandlinger med Iran og Nordkorea - uden forhåndsbetingelser.

241006, Guardian, Simon Tisdall, Time for Bush to talk to Iran and Syria. Der ser ud til at være givet, at Baker vil opfordre Bush til direkte forhandlinger på højt niveau med Iran og Syrien. Det er ikke første gang, tanken er oppe, Zalmay Khalilzad, USAs ambassadør i Iraq, luftede den for et år siden. Vurderingen er, at Iran har indflydelse på shiiterne i Iraq. [Som sædvanlig er selv "realisterne" i USA ret naive. Man kan sikkert mod beskedne modydelser på iranerne til at lægge pres på sine klienter i Iraq - men tro ikke at iraqerne indstiller modstanden før den sidste udlænding er ude, amerikaner eller iraner spiller næppe nogen rolle. OJ].

081106, TomDispatch, Tom Engelhardt, Plebiscite on an Outlaw Empire 5 Questions for Our Future. Har en klar og kontant beskrivelse af opbygningen af nye fjender efter kommunismens fald. Hans teori om torturens betydning: kan du få legaliseret adgang til det, er der ingen grænser overhovedet for, hvad du kan få/har ret til.

101106, Chris Shaw: "The corporate and economic reasons for war" "We Australians had our "Mossadeq moment" back in the mid 1970s. At that time, our bean-counters calculated that a $1 investment in Australian minerals and energy would return a cool $1,425, for a total value of $5.7 trillion - a truly astronomical amount in the currency of those days (Parliamentary broadcast). The rights to this national treasure were largely in the hands of overseas interests, so the socialist Whitlam Government set out to compete for a larger nationally owned share, with money borrowed from OPEC countries (the oil producers had quite a lot of spare change in those days). This immense treasure house of Australian resources was far too great a gift to be granted to Australians, so the CIA's old-boy network swung into action through their sympathisers within the public service and Australia's wealthy elite. Sml. Chomsky.

Efter valget røg Rumsfeld. Han erstattes af fhv. CIAchef Robert Michael Gates, som er George HW Bush' nære medarbejder. Han er også medlem af den Iraq study Group, der ledes af en anden gamle-Bush medarbejder, James Baker. Så nu har farmand taget tøjlerne. 

Perkins, Folk over hele landet var nærmest desparate for at se USA igen slå sin status fast som militærmagt. (p.185).

181106, Calcutta News, Bolton In Extraordinary Outburst Against United Nations. UNGA vedtog med 156 mod 7 (USA, Israel, Australia og 4 amå østater i Stillehavet) beklagelse over Israels massakre mod Beit Hanoun. EU, inkl. UK stemte for.

201106 ?, Abdallah El-Ashaal, The puppet's last dance. Ashaal er fhv. medarbejder hos den ægyptiske udenrigsminister. Han fordømmer forholdet mellem Saddam og USA. Det at amerikanerne har lavet en skueproces har dog den fordel, "it showed Arab leaders that the Americans can turn against anyone - regardless of how much that person had been dedicated to them."

201106, ZNet, Jeffrey Steinberg, Cheney and Neo-Cons Plotting More Wars. I marts 2003 kørte Richard Perle en afpresning af den saudiske kongefamilie sammen med våbenhandler Adnan Khashoggi. "Perle, a leading critic of the Saudi regime, would drop the propaganda barrage and the calls for regime change, coming out of his Defense Policy Board, and the Saudis would cough up." Vanity Fair har 031106 en historie om neocons nye taktik, man lægger hele skylden for Iraq fiascoen på George W Bush og hans officielle hold. Man arbejder også på, at Irankrigen startes under Bush. Cheneys kontor er stadig neoconcentral. Man sysler også med at smugle våben til Fatahfolk på Vestbredden, så der kan skabes en fud borgerkrig mod Hamas.

301006, ZMag: Interview by Stephen R. Shalom: "Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice By Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar. Edited by Stephen R. Shalom. Boulder, CO; Paradigm Publishers, 2006. "Chomsky: . So Gorbachev agreed to German unification, but on one condition: that he get a firm pledge from Bush Sr. that NATO would not expand to the east. Within a couple of years, nowever, Clinton just reneged on the commitment, and expanded NATO to the east, right to the borders of Russia."

241106, ICH, K Gajendra Singh, The US Empire -Beginning of the End Game. "Americans proudly call their state 'US Incorporated', which it has truly become, a mighty but a dangerous company; manufacturing, selling arms and using them recklessly all around the world (while experimenting with chemicals and depleted Uranium munitions) The Mongols, Turks and other wild tribes used arms for expanding empires but in US Inc, arms manufacture and its use has become an end itself, to hell with the US public interest....Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), 34th US President in his Farewell Address on Jan. 17,1961 said ,"[The] conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." - But now this monster has imposed itself on USA and is expanding, going for more lethal and profitable means of destruction even against international treaties and conventions...The United States, with 5 percent of the world's population, controls 30 percent of world resources. And US corporate interests, forming perhaps 1 percent of this population, control these massive resources. They want to control the world without accountability, not even to the American people...US has gone ahead and built many military bases, about which very little information comes out. Nor is the US media curious to write about it...From Colin Powell to US Generals like Tommy Franks all have reiterated;" We do not do body counts." But whenever a Western hostage is taken or a western soldier killed, you have the whole family, relations and friends and neighbours being interviewed on Western channels. As if non westerners were an inferior human breed...The discourse on West spreading democracy is just a different version of Christian West's' self evident' manifest destiny to civilize the natives of the world .Look at the temerity in describing the illegal invasion of Iraq; Operation Iraqi freedom. And the charade of bringing democracy in the Middle East, when the Western record has been suppression of nationalist and democratic aspirations and forces all around the world . "

261106. Global Research, Michel Chossudovsky, Debating "War and Peace" behind Closed Doors: NATO's Riga Security Conference. "The venue is being held in a former Soviet Republic, regrouping for the first time all 26 members of the enlarged NATO, including countries previously in the geopolitical orbit of the Soviet Union: Poland, Roumania, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, the Czech republic. (Complete List) The Venue directly challenges Moscow's influence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It signifies to Moscow that NATO enlargement is proceeding on Russia's doorstep. Although Israel will not be represented at the Summit, NATO has developed in the last two years a close working relationship with Tel Aviv, which in practical terms provides Israel with a "de facto associate membership" within the Atlantic Alliance....The European military-industrial complex will be represented by key figures from the Franco-German aerospace conglomerate EADS, Italy's Finemecanica. Lockheed Martin's European President Scott Martin, among others will also be attending."

031206, The Independent, Andrew Murray-Watson, UA tells banks to shut down Iran operations. "11 is believed that officials in President George Bush's administration have also put pressure on banks with operations in the US, including RBS, HSBC and Barclays, to stop acting on behalf of UK business customers in Iran. Barclays, it is thought, has already told its corporate clients that it will not accept deposits from transactions originating in Iran."

041206, Jamaica Observer, John Maxwell, From the Frying Pan into the Red Mud. "We are under siege by a system gone mad, an economic system gone berserk, unaccountable to anyone and responsible to nothing because this system has no rules. It can do anything it wants to anyone, any living organism....In this system, everything and everyone is for sale...It is a system described by George Soros, one of the world's richest men, as "Gangster Capitalism". On the world stage it calls itself 'globalisation'. On the local stage, everywhere, its adherents call it 'Development'." Via Vietnamkrigens anvendelse af Herbatox med dioxin i, et canadisk mineselskabs fjernelse af 3 bjerggletschere i Chile og Nicholas Sterns økonomiske analyse af klimaforandringerne, når Maxwell til konklusionen: "This catastrophic prospect is the direct result of progress' as defined by people who have more money than conscience." Og mere præcist kan det næppe siges.

Information Clearing House nyhedsbrev 131206, viser et interessant samarbejde om amerikansk udenrigspolitik, den demokratiske due Kucinich og den ærkereaktionære Ron Paul. "650,000 Iraqi Deaths Given Voice In U.S. Congress: Video: Congressional briefing on the Lancet Iraqi casualty study. Speaking were Gilbert Bumham, Les Roberts, and Juan Cole. The briefing was organized by Rep, Kucinich, with the support of rep. Ron Paul. http://tinyurl.com/y7jdtj 

201206, Steven demons American Strategy Program, New America Foundation anbefaler Michael Lind med følgende ord "author of the provocative new book The American Way of Strategy, will argue that trends in the years ahead favor conflict, not peace, both in the Middle East and the world, and that not only neoconservatives but also "realists" may be too optimistic about the  remaining two years of this presidency and the first few years of the next." Det falder godt i tråd med den nye tendens til at regere via borgerkrige og revolutioner, fredelige når det går (Ukraina) ellers krigeriske (Somalia, Iraq).

080107, The Nation, MICHAEL T.KLARE Ominous Signs of a Wider War. Udskiftningen i CentCom af Abizaid med Fallon peger mod et angreb på Iran. Fallon er flådeofficer med erfaring i kombineret flåde- og luftoperationer. "Contrary to the advice given by the Iraq Study Group, Bush appears to be planning for a wider war - with much higher risk of catastrophic failure - not a gradual and dignified withdrawal from the region."

130107, Chicago Tribune, U.S. sees Somalia mission as model. Special Forces used in counterterror strike. "The Pentagon established a desolate outpost in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti in 2002 in part to serve as a hub for Special Operations missions to capture or kill senior Al Qaeda leaders in the region." [Det er endnu en måde at udbytte fattige afrikanske lande på. Lade dem føre USAs krige. Mandskabsomkostningerne holdes nede. Og man slipper for den upopulære strøm af fyldte kister ind i USA. OJ]

160107, Skånska Dagbladet, USA beslagtar svenskt och norskt bistånd. För ett år sedan ville svenska LO-TCO:s biståndsnämnd bidra med pengar till ett fackligt projekt i Liberia... Men den amerikanska banken stoppade pengarna och vägrade betala tillbaka dem - med hänvisning till amerikanska terrorlagar... Den norska biståndsorgaixisationen Kirkens Nödhjelp fick for några år sedan motsvarande hundratusentals kronor beslagtagna av amerikanska myndigheter för att pengarna var avsedda för i länder som USA inte gillar." [Det burde vi da ikke lade dem blande sig i. Er vi virkelig mere lydige vasaller end Rumænien var under den kolde krig ?, OJ]

170107, Harpers Magazine, Chalmers Johnson, A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States. Prof. Johnson beskriver den amerikanske økonomi som drevet af militær keynesianisme. [Det er det samme fænomen, som Eisenhower døbte "Det militær-industrielle kompleks", OJ]. Økonomisk er problemet, at man ikke (kan ?) skrue(r) ned i gode tider. Det var jo det, der var Keynes' recept, øg statens udgifter under recession og nedsæt dem, når økonomien kører godt. I stedet øger man stadig "behovet for våben" og holder dermed økonomien i gang. Militær keynesianisme koncentrerer magten hos præsidenten og resultatet af den positive feedback mellem økonomi og præsidentmagt bliver krig. Præsidenterne kryber udenom de begrænsninger (War Fowers Act of 1973, Budget and Impoundment Control Act of of 1974, Freedom of Information Act of 1966, President Ford's Executive Order 11905 of 1976, Intelligence Oversight Act of 1980), som Kongressen har forsøgt at gennemtrumfe. Bl.a. gennem "signing statements" (de 42 tidligere præsidenter nåede ialt op på 568 signing statements. Bush har udstedt over 1000). "Military Keynesianism is an un-stable one-part system. With no political check, debt accrues until it reaches a crisis point.". Chalmers Johnson har udformet sin artikel som en National Intelligence Estimate, som CIA plejer at lave over vigtigere stater. Han har været konsulent på den slags, 1967 - 1973.

180107, The Nation, George McGovern, An Impartial Interrogation of George W. Bush. 2/3 af amerikanerne betragter i meningsanalyser Iraqkrigen som en fejl og næaten alle iraqere vil have amerikansk militær ud. "And what is conservative about reducing the taxes needed to finance this war and instead running our national debt to nine trillion dollars with money borrowed from China, Japan, Germany and Britain? Is this wild deficit financing your idea of conservatism?...Finally, Mr. President, I ask have you kept your oath of office to uphold the Constitution when you use what you call the war on terrorism to undermine the Bill of Rights? On what constitutional theory do you seize and imprison suspects without charge, sometimes torturing them in foreign jails? On what constitutional or legal basis have you tapped the phones of Americans without approval of the courts as required by law? Are you above the Constitution, above the law, and above the Geneva accords? If we are fighting for freedom in Iraq as you say, why are you so indifferent to protecting liberty here in America? "

200107, Al Jazira, US asks Czechs to host radar base. Der er tale om en base for raketforsvar, ballistic missile defence system, altså Reagans Stjernekrigs projekt - ikke mærkeligt, at Rusland protesterer. Men kan EU virkelig acceptere den slags - overflødige - provokationer ??

250107, Wired News: Fanning Fears of a Space War. Kinas ødelæggelse af en af deres egne satellitter med en raket har allerede givet anledning til et propagandafelttog for nye rumvåben.

310107, Information Clearing House Blog, Chalmers Johnson, Empire v. Democracy. Man kan ikke både have et imperium og demokrati. Chalmers Johnson, der har været konsulent for CIAs afdeling for udarbejdelse af National [Security] Estimates 1968 - 1972, illustrerer, hvordan nogen af de undergravningsmetoder USA anvender over for regimer, den amerikanske regering ikke synes om, slår tilbage. I 2005 var der 737 amerikanske militærbaser med en halv million amerikanske soldater, spioner, medarbejdere i firmaer hyret af Pentagon og pårørende i mere end 130 lande.

100207, Tomdispatch, Michael T.Klare, Behold the Rise of Energy-Based Fascism. "The President himself has employed this term [islamofascism] on occasion over the years, using it to describe efforts by Muslim exfremists to create "a totalitarian empire that denies all political and religious freedom." While there may indeed be hundreds, even thousands, of disturbed and suicidal individuals who share this delusional vision, the world actually faces a far more substantial and universal threat, which might be dubbed: Energo-fascism. [We see ] The transformation of the U.S. military into a global oil protection service..The transformation of Russia into an energy superpov/er with control over Eurasia's largest supplies of oil and natural gas and the resolve to convert these assets into ever increasing political influence over neighboring states...A ruthless scramble among the great powers for the remaining oil, natural gas, and uranium reserves of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia, accompanied by recurring military interventions, the constant installation and replacement of client regims, systemic corruption and repression, and the continued impoverishment of the great majority of those who have the misfortune to inhabit such energy-rich regions. [Set her fra min altan, dækker den beskrivelse ikke "great powers, men 1 supermagt, USA. Rusland, Indien og Kina har mig bekendt ikke interveneret militært og byttet klient regimer. Europa har deltaget i USAs projekter, OJ]...Increased state intrusion into, and surveillance of, public and private life as reliance on nuclear power grows, bringing with it an increased threat of sabotage, accident, and the diversion of fissionable materials into the hands of illicit nuclear proliferators...; A growing number of energy experts believe that the global output of "conventional" (liquid) crude oil will soon reach a peak - perhaps as early as 2010 or 2015 - and then begin an irreversible decline. If this proves to be the case, no amount of inputs from Canadian tar sands, shale oil, or other "unconventional" sources will prevent a catastrophic liquid-fuel shortage in a decade or so, producing widespread economic trauma. The global supply of other primary fuels, including natural gas, coal, and uranium is not expected to contract as rapidly, but all of these materials are finite, and will eventually become scarce.... It was Clinton who originally declared that the flow of oil and gas from the Caspian Sea to the West was an American security priority, and who, on this basis, established military ties with the governments of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan...disruption of  supply from Nigeria would represent a major blow to U.S. oil security strategy. To prevent such a disruption, the Department of Defense is providing Nigerian military and internal security forces with substantial arms and equipment intended to quell unrest in the Delta region."

120207,  Information Clearing House, Paul Craig Roberts, The World Can Halt Bush's Crimes By Dumping the Dollar. Roberts var bitrædende finansminister under Reagan, så forslaget holder nok vand. USA er jo helt afhængig af at resten af verden accepterer USD som betaing. Og hvis ikke trykkeriet skal løbe varmt forudsætter det, at overskudslandene, d.v.s. Kina, Japan, Olielandene og Europa køber US Treasury bonds - nærmest en statsobligation.

150207, FCNL har regnet ud at 41 % af skatteindtægterne går til tidligere eller nuværende krige.

190207, BBC, Japan anger at US sex slave bill. Den amerikanske kongres har vedtaget en resolution, der kræver at Japan siger undskyld for anvendelsen af sex slaver under 2. verdenskrig. [Det er et fantastisk hykleri, de synes de kan tillade sig, Abu Ghraibs herskere. OJ]

210207, FPIF, Noam Chomsky interviewes af Michael Shank om USAs politik overfor Iran, Iraq, North Korea og Venezuela. Det hele kan koges ned til spørgsmålet om kontrol siger Chomsky. USA accepterer ikke uafhængige stater. "[Vice President] Dick Cheney declared in Kazakhstan or somewhere that control over a pipeline is a "tool of intimidation and blackmail". When we have control over the pipelines it's a tool of benevolence. If other countries have control over the sources of energy and the distribution of energy, then it is a tool of intimidation and blackmail, exactly as Cheney said.... 1 think it has to do with a feature of world affairs that is insufficiently appreciated. International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience, otherwise the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places...And again, the will of the US population and even US business is considered mostly irrelevant. "

280207, The Independent, How the war on terror made the world a more terrifying place. 

Sept. 2001 til marts 2003:     729                  38 pr måned

marts 2003 til 2007:                5420            120 pr måned

og opgørelsen ser bort fra den arabisk-israelske konflikt - hvordan fortaber sig i det uvisse. Månedstallene har jeg regnet ud.

050307, Democracy Now! Seven Countries In Five Years. An interview with General Wesley Clark. Clark henviser til et møde med en anden general i Pentagon i september 2001, der citeres (af Clark) for: ""I just got this down from upstairs" - meaning the Secretary of Defense's office - "today." And he said, "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." Clark er jo ikke nogen fredsven eller due. Men det her var for stærkt. Derudover taler Clark om tortur, tilbageholdelser, Guantanamo etc. "GEN. WESLEY CLARK: People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's govemments, especially in theMiddleEast." [Han var NATOchef, da de bombede Jugoslavija !!!, Så dobbeltmoralen er lige så tydelig, som hos Bush. OJ].

100307, ICH, Mike Whitney, Global Realignment and the Decline of the Superpower. "The truth is there's a straight line from the founding of this country to the killing fields of Baghdad. That line may be interrupted by periods of enlightenment and peace, but it is still an unbroken stripe from the Continental Congress to Abu Ghraib, from Bunker Hill to Falluja, from Valley Forge to Guantanamo Bay. It all grows from the same root."

marts 2007, Tom Engelhardt A Journalist Writing Bloody Murder. And No One Notices "Let me see if I've got this straight. Perhaps two years ago, an "informal" meeting of "veterans" of the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal  -- holding positions in the Bush administration -- was convened by Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams. Discussed were the "lessons learned" from that labyrinthine, secret, and illegal arms-for-money-for-arms deal involving the Israelis, the Iranians, the Saudis, and the Contras of Nicaragua, among others - - and meant to evade the Boland Amendment, a congressionally passed attempt to outlaw Reagan administration assistance to the anti-communist Contras. In terms of getting around Congress, the Iran-Contra vets concluded, the complex operation had been a success -- and would have worked far better if the CIA and the military had been kept out of the loop and the whole thing had been run out of the Vice Presidents office."

240307, AlterNet: Is the American Empire on the Brink of Collapse? Interview med Chalmers Johnson. Vore mange hemmelige aktiviteter vil komme tilbage og plage os. Vi insisterer på tjenende regeringer, der adlyder vore ordrer. Men man kan ikke forene det at være et demokrati og det at være imperiets hersker. Problemet ligger i miltarismen - den er nødvendig for at bevare kontrollen med imperiet, men tillader ikke demokrati. Krig mod terrorismen er vanvid. Vi skulle være gået efter terroristerne som de kriminelle de er, arresteret og dømt dem. I øvrigt var 9/11 et rekyl fra vores anvendelse af mujahedins mod russerne i Afghanistan. Hvis en rigsretsanklage er taget af bordet, kan det meget vel vise sig, at det er demokratiet også.

250307, Gulfnews: US Army 'jammed' Swiss and French satellites. Ejeren af den iraqiske TVstation Al Zawra fortalte, at han snart ville sende via Eutelsat. Og så lammede det amerikanske militær den i 24 timer. Meddelelsen var falsk. Det gik ud over fransk og schweitzisk nyhedsformidling !!!!

250307, Washington Post, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Terrorized by 'War on Terror'. How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America. "The "war on terror" has created a culture of fear in America....The phrase itself is meaningless. It defines neither a geographic context nor our presumed enemies....But the little secret here may be that the vagueness of the phrase was deliberately (or instinctivdy) calculated by its sponsors. Constant reference to a "war on terror" did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear...A recent study reported that in 2003, Congress identified 160 sites as potentially important national targets for would-be terrorists. With lobbyists weighing in, by the end of that year the list had grown to 1,849; by the end of 2004, to 28,360; by 2005, to 77,769. The national database of possible targets now has some 300,000 items in it, including the Sears Tower in Chicago and an Illinois Apple and Pork Festival... Let us be true to our traditions." 

110407, Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire, Algeria Attack and the al-Qaeda Penetration of Africa. "It is sincerely mysterious "al-Qaeda" has a knack of showing up in places targeted by the neocons. For instance, Africa, in particular Somalia and, more recently, Algeria....AFRICOM came into being shortly before the United States used the Ethiopian armed forces, supported by US air power and small teams of special forces to destabilize the Islamic Courts  Union which had stabilized of most of Somalia and, for the first time in years, brought a semblance of normalcy to the country...The White House's plans for Africa, which reach far beyond the Horn, are part of a general militarization of U.S. foreign policy. A recent congressional report found that "some embassies have effectively become command posts, with military personnel in those countries all but supplanting the role of ambassadors in conducting American foreign policy." The United States is already pouring $500 million into its Trans-Sahel Counterterrorism Initiative that embraces Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria in North Africa, and nations boarding the Sahara including Mauritania, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Chad, and Senegal. A major U.S. base in Djibouti houses some 1,800 troops and played an important role in the Somali invasion. "

120407, TFF, "The risk that you or I will be hit by a terrorist attack is probably equal to the risk that we will be killed by our best friend or spouse. However, terrorism has all the characteristics that the media love. That's the reason why this problem - tiny as it is in comparison with humanity's real problems - is blown out of proportion. Fear-ology - the deliberate use of instilling fear in people - is not a specialty of terrorists only. It is practised by government (incl state terrorists) to legitimize militarization, violate privacy and human rights and to invade countries that may - or, rather, may not - harbour terrorists. At the end of the road they will probably be happy to close the open society and take authoritarian control in the name of protecting us."

090507, International Herald Tribune, Putin likens U.S. foreign policy to that of Third Reich.Der er tale om samme udtryk for særstatus (exceptionality) og samme foragt for menneskeliv.

090507, Think Progress, Gates Contradicts Bush. "I Don't Know If 2002 War Authorization Is Still Valid. During his questioning of Gates, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) noted that the authorization listed two purposes for the use of force: 1) to defend the United States against Saddam Hussein and 2) enforce U.N. resolutions against Hussein's government. Byrd asked Gates, since Hussein's government no longer exists, "do you agree that this authorization no longer applies to the ongoing conflict in Iraq?" 

140507, ICH, Claudia Nelson, The CIA - a Terrorist Organization. CIA opfylder såvel den amerikanske som internationale definitioner på en terroristorganisation. Nelson lister et antal terroristoperationer, Operation Phoenix under Vietnamkrigen, Iran-Contra i "Nicaragua, coup d'etat i Chile, 1973,  Operation Condor i Sydamerika med den beskidte krig i Argentina, Operation CHAOS mod den amerikanske antikrigsbevægelse, April 2002 kupsøget i Venezuela, Luis Posada Carriles.

150507, VenezuelAnalysis, Chris Carlson, Setting the Stage for Turmoil in Caracas. Washington's New Imperial Strategy In Venezuela. Har en kort oversigt over hidtidige "farvelade"revolutioner og den metodik, der anvendes.

170507, ICH, James Petras The Pro-Israel Lobby and US Middle East Policy: The Score Card for 2007. En grundig gennemgang,

170507, Chalmers Johnson, Evil Empire. Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for America ? Kun 22 % af amerikanerne opfatter Bushregeringens politik som meningsfuld. Den laveste procentsats siden oktober 1992, under fader Bush. Største problem: "Instead of uncovering administration lies and manipulations, the media actively promoted them." Det betyder at det militær-industrielle kompleks' magt stadig vokser. "One subject that the government, the military, and the news media try to avoid like the plague is the racist and murderous culture of rank-and-file American troops when operating abroad." Jeremy Scahill citeres for at der er 126000 lejesoldater i Iraq ! De reelle militærudgifter i USA opgøres til 1000 milliarder USD (regnestykket gengives). 30 milliarder USD af Pentagons officielle budget er mørkelagt ! "I believe that there is only one solution to the crisis we face. The Ameriean people must make the decision to dismantle both the empire that has been created in their name and the huge (still growing) military establishment that undergirds it. It is a task at least comparable to that undertaken by the British government when, after World War II, it liquidated the British Empire. By doing so, Britain avoided the fate of the Roman Republic - becoming a domestic tyranny and losing its democracy, as  would have been required if it had continued to try to dominate much of the world by force...In terms of the organization of the executive branch, we need to rewrite the National Security Act of 1947, taking away from the CIA all functions that involve sabotage, torture, subversion, overseas election rigging, rendition, and other forms of clandestine activity. The president should be deprived of his power to order these types of operations except with the explicit advice and consent of the Senate."

170507, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., Ron Paul on Blowback. ""Well," he said, "I think the party has lost its way, because the conservative wing of the Republican Party always advocated a noninterventionist foreign policy. Senator Robert Taft didn't even want to be in NATO. George Bush won the election in the year 2000 campaigning on a humble foreign policy. No nation-building, no policing of the world. Republicans were elected to end the Korean War. The Republicans were elected to end the Vietnam War....We need to look at what we do from the perspective of what would happen if somebody else did it to us... Most Americans think that America the country is much like their own neighborhood: peaceful, happy, hard working, law abiding. So when you tell people that the US is actually something completely different, they are shocked....And let us not forget how all this nonsense began: the first war in 1991 was vaged in retaliation for a US-approved Iraqi invasion of the former province, Kuwait. Saddam had good reason to think that the US ambassador was telling the truth about non-interference with Kuwait  relations: Saddam was our ally all through the Iran-Iraq war and before. Ron spoke about complications of the Middle East. One of them is that the enemy we are now fighting, the Islamic extremists, are the very group that we supported and subsidized all through the 1980s in the name of fighting Communism. That's the reason the US knows so much about their bunkers and hiding spots in Afghanistan: US taxdollars created them... the US government is the enemy of the American people and their values."

180507, Global Research, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, The Globalization of Military Power: NATO Expansion. NATO and the broader network of US sponsored military alliances. Beskriver omringningen af Rusland og Kina (og Iran, Nordkorea). U.S. Senator Richard Lugar har foreslået, at NATOpagtens artikel 5 om gensidig hjælp ved angreb udvides til også at gælde, hvis en medlemsstats energiforsyning trues ! Man vil altså betragte det, at Rusland - eller en anden oliestat - nægter at levere olie, som en krigshandling !!! Hvor blev den frie handel af ?? Det her er sindssygt, livsfarligt !!! Nazemroaya beskriver også, at den inspektionspolitik overfor handelsskibe, som bl.a. med dansk deltagelse, sker i Middelhavet strider imod 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea .

220507, International Herald Tribune, U.S. reaffirms its policy against targeted assassinations. I anledning af Israels trusler mod Haniyeh. Men det er vist desværre bare det man "over there" kalder "to pay lip service", altså noget man siger, men ikke agter at gøre noget ved.

240507, The Guardian, Al Gore, A drive for global domination has put us in greater danger. "The pursuit of "dominance" in foreign policy led the Bush administration to ignore the UN, to do serious damage to our most important alliances, to violate international law, and to cultivate the hatred and contempt of many in the rest of the world.... When leaders are not held accountable for serious mistakes, they and their successors are more likely to repeat those mistakes...But the larger explanation for this crisis in American decision-making is that reason itself is playing a diminished, less respected, role in our national conversation."

010607, Salon, Tim Shorrock, The corporate takeover of U.S. intelligence. Den nye trussel mod freden er, at USAs efterretningstjenester vidtgående er overtaget af private firmaer. De har jo kun interesse af at opskrue vurderingen af risikoen. "On May 14, at an industry conference in Colorado sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. government revealed for the first time how much of its classified intelligence budget is spent on private contracts: a whopping 70 percent....the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence infrastructure....abusive interrogations that have involved employees of private contractors operating in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba...Trey Brown, a DNI press officer, told Salon that the 70 percent figure disclosed by Everett refers to everything that U.S. intelligence agencies buy, from pencils to buildings to "whatever devices we use to collect intelligence."....may be one reason the DNI is pushing Congress to grant immunity to corporations that may have cooperated vvith the NS A över the past five years." Artiklen henviser også til de budgetproblemer anvendelsen af private firmaer giver anledning til. De rekruterer tjenesternes egne folk og udlejer dem så til 2 - 3 gange den løn de fik. De private firmaer må også drive lobbyvirksomhed overfor kongressen. "In March 2006, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif., who had resigned from Congress several months earlier, was sentenced to eight years in prison after being convicted of accepting more than $2 million in bribes from executives with MZM, a prominent San Diego defense contractor...the current top five intelligence contractors appear to be Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, SAIC, General Dynamics and L-3 Communications. Other major contractors include Booz Allen Hamilton, CACI International, DRS Technologies and Mantech International...former CIA director George Tenet, who now earns millions of dollars working as a director and advisor to four companies that hold contracts with U.S. intelligence agencics."

030607, arizonarepublic, 'USS Liberty' veterans demand investigation. "Conclusions submitted in October 2003 to the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense by the USS Liberty Veterans Association, Inc., in demanding a congressional investigation into the aborted rescue during the attack of the USS Liberty and subsequent alleged cover-up....1. That on June 8,1967, after eight hours of aerial surveillance, Israel launched a two-hour air and naval attack against USS Liberty, the world's most sophisticated intelligence ship, inflicting 34 dead and 173 wounded American servicemen (a casualty rate of 70 percent, in a crew of 294);...4. That there is compelling evidence that Israel's attack was a deliberate attempt to destroy an American ship and kill her entire crew; evidence of such intent is supported by statements from Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Undersecretary of State George Ball, former CIA Director Richard Helms, former NSA Directors Lt. Gen. William Odom, USA (Ret.), Adm. Bobby Ray Inman, USN (Ret.), and Marshal Carter; former NSA deputy directors Oliver Kirby and Maj. Gen. John Morrison, USAF (Ret.); and former Ambassador Dwight Porter, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon in 1967;...6. That fearing conflict with Israel, the White House deliberately prevented the U.S. Navy from coming to the defense of USS Liberty by recalling Sixth Fleet military rescue support while the ship was under attack; evidence of the recall of rescue aircraft is supported by statements of Capt. Joe Tully, Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, an Rear Admiral Lawrence Geis, the Sixth Fleet carrier division commander, at the time of the attack;" (More information: www.ussliberty.org). 

040607, Los Angeles Times, William T. Vollmann, The Great Exception. For hundreds of years, the rules didn't seem to apply to America the Perfect. "I wish I could blame him alone for the degradation of the America I loved. Unfortunately, Americans not only voted for this man, but after he proved himself to be a criminal, they reelected him."

130607, ICH, Firmin DeBrabander, How the Neocons Misread Machiavelli. "To put it starkly, we expend over 3/4 of a trillion dollars in combating sub-national, third world forces..... Machiavelli asserts... In other words,  if you go to war, make sure you win, for if you don't, you lose a lot more than the war, but also your honor and security....For, it is not so much hatred and anger that inspires enemies to attack the prince, Machiavelli maintains, but the perception that he is weak." . 

290607, (Chomsky), Imminent Crises: Threats and Opportunities. "the Eisenhower administration identified three major global Problems: Indonesia, North Africa, and the Middle East - all oil producers, all Islamic. In all cases, the concern was independent nationalism....Clinton's military and intelligence planners had called for "dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect U.S. interests and investment," much in the way armies and navies did in earlier years."

100707, ICH, William Blum, Neocons, theocons, Demcons, excons, and future cons. "Hillary Clinton, however, I've long known is a conservative; going back to at least the 1980s, while the wife of the Arkansas governor, she strongly supported the death squad torturers known as the Contras, who were the empire's proxy army in Nicaragua...that she expects US troops to still be in Iraq at the end of her first term and even at the end of her second term." 

110707, The Guardian, Imran Khan, The rules change when dictators serve US interests "The mosque siege reveals Musharraf s desperation to appear tough in the war on error. But in truth he is a friend to terrorists...Suicide bombing and other noxious forms of terrorism were once alien to Pakistan. After eight years of military dictatorship, radicalism and fundamentalism are in the ascendant everywhere."

150707, SignOnSanDiego, Castro suggests Washington fails to stop attacks on U.S. soil to justify war on terror 

270707, newsmax.com, Gorbachev: Bush, U.S. Trying to Build Empire

270707, Guardian, White House warns Saudis over machinations in Iraq. "The extent of the deterioration in US-Saudi relations was exposed for the first time today when Washington accused Riyadh of working to undermine the Iraqi government...In a graphic example of the tension, Zaimay Khalilzad, until recently the US ambassador to Baghdad, protested to the Saudis over fake documents distributed in Baghad which claimed Mr Maliki was an Iranian agent and had tipped off the radical Shia cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, about a US crackdown on his Madhi army militia...Relations have been strained since King Abdullah, in a speech earlier this year, unexpectedly criticised the US, describing the Iraq invasion as "an illegal foreign occupation." "

020807, The Raw Story, John Byrne, After company confessed to paying terrorists, Chertoff took no action. 240403 tilstod et bestyrelsesmedlem fra Chiquita International, at man havde betalt hundredtusinder til colombianske paramilitære, der står på USAs liste over terrorgrupper.

fundet 070807, www.worldpublicopinion.org/ Comprehensive Analysis of Polls Reveals Americans' Attitudes on US Role in the World. Organisationen har analyseret et stort antal meningsundersøgelser med omhyggeligt studie af spørgsmålene og mener at kunne konkludere: et stort og voksende flertal er imod USAs nuværende rolle i verden og betragter den som destabiliserende. Der er flertal for militærbaser hos traditionelle allierede mens flertallet for en  militær tilstedeværelse i Mellemøsten er blevet meget lille. Der er et stort flertal imod at USA spiller rollen som dominerende verdensleder. Der er stort flertal for at arbejde gennem internationale institutioner og for at tage hensyn til andre landes interesser. Der er store flertal for en international retsorden. Der er samtidig en udbredt opfattelse af, at USA yder mere end rimeligt i internationalt samarbejde og at der bruges for mange penge på internationalt arbejde i forhold til, hvad regeringen bruger indenlands.

090807, BBC, Russia sparks Cold War scramble. Russian bombers have flown to the US Pacific island of Guam in a manoeuvre reminiscent of the Cold War era.

 090807, ICH, Paul Craig Roberts, US Hegemony Spawns Russian-Chinese Military Alliance. "This week the Russian and Chinese militaries are conducting a joint military exercise involving large numbers of troops and combat vehicles. The former Soviet Republics of Tajikistan, Kyrgkyzstan, and Kazakstan are participating. Other countries appear ready to join the military alliance...In an attempt to gain the advantage in a nuclear conflict, the neocons are positioning US anti-ballistic missiles on Soviet borders in Poland and the Czech Republic. This is an idiotic provocation as the Russians can eliminate anti-ballistic missiles with cruise missiles. Neocons are people who desire war, but know nothing about it. Thus, the US failures in Iraq and Afghanistan. Reagan and Gorbachev ended the cold war. However, US administrations after Reagan's have broken the agreements and understandings.... Americans need to understand what the neocon Bush regime cannot: a nuclear exchange between the US, Russia, and China would establish the hegemony of the cockroach. ...If only a sweet young thing would volunteer to give Bush a blowjob so that he can be impeached before he leads us to Armageddon."

Septembre 2007, LeMonde diplomatique, Ibrahim Warde, Des enquêtes très politiques. Contes et légendes de l'argent du terrorisme. Rapporten om 9/11 viser, at terroristangreb, selv i stor skala, ikke er dyre. Men den store ståhej om at standse pengene dertil, har givet USA bedre mulighed for at kontrollere verdens kapitalbevægelser !

310907, The Herald, Harare, Reason Wafawarova, U.S. Obsessed With Using Force. USAs udenrigspolitik, set fra Zimbabwe. Manden bærer ikke sit fornavn forgæves. "SINCE the United States assumed  global leadership from Britain at the end of the Second World War; when it emerged as the biggest beneficiary of the war, a development that saw it declare the era of "the American century", Washington has been obsessed with using force to thwart small [!!] countries....When Ronald Reagan was asked to justify his administration's trade embargo against Nicaragua in 1985 he said, "the policies and actions of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. [Bush siger i dag det samme om Libanon. Min tolkning er, at det er en lovtekst, der giver præsidenten ret til at starte kampen - men Wafawarova's påpegning af, at det går ud over grinagtigt små lande forklares jo ikke af det]. Does this quotation ring a bell to Zimbabweans? It should, given that both Condoleeza Rice and George W. Bush have almost repeated it verbatim in their attempt to justify the so-called Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (2001), a sanctions law that bars multilateral lending institutions, with dealings with the US, from extending lines of credit to Zimbabwe....Today, many outside the US still wonder how a largely peasant nation of 13 million people, Zimbabwe, can possibly constitute "an unusual and extraordinary threat" to the foreign policy of the US....This is precisely because the US and much of the western world; has some of the most indoctrinated and brainwashed people of this world as Noam Chomsky rightly pointed out in the book, Latin America: From Colonisation to Globalisation, 1999. In 1982, the Reagan administration, through the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff went on air to tell the American public that Grenada was a military threat to the US. The mere fact that this was pronounced indicates the power of indoctrination and brainwashing contained in the two most powerful agents of imperialism, namely, western politicians and their mass media. The fact that the American public could hear their chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff publicly utter this ludicrous statement without exploding into raucous laughter, was yet another indication of the degree of indoctrination. This "extraordinary" military threat led to the invasion of Grenada in 1983 and 6 000 American elite troops descended on 40 Cubans and a couple of hundred Grenadine military men, earning themselves a total 8 000 medals for the "valour" that led to this enormous victory...The fundamental principles of American foreign policy and indeed that of all imperialist countries are to ensure what Kennan once called "the protection of our raw materials." One would think that he was referring to raw materials found within the United States but he was actually referring to the raw materials of Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia...The real threats against whom the Americans want to protect "their" resources are indeed the indigenous people who are the bona fide owners of those raw materials. Some of these indigenous people have made the "mistake" of embarking on policies aimed at making indigenous populations use and benefit from their resources.... The significance is derived from the fact that by embarking on social policies that are welfare based, these small countries may succeed in empowering their own populations and if this leads to successful economic and social development, it may constitute a model for others, thereby having an undesired domino effect...rhis is precisely why the US wants land reform in Zimbabwe to fail...In Angola, the US sponsored Jonas Savimbi's Unita rebels for more than 20 years. In Congo, they organised the overthrow and murder of Patrice Lunfiumba before installing a ruthless dictatorial regime led by Mobutu Sese Seko. In Ghana, they sponsored and organised the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah while in Mozambique they sponsored and trained the murderous Renamo of Afonso Dhlakama." 

Tampa, Florida, huser headquarters of the U.S. Central Command (Centcom), the nerve center for all U.S. military operations in the Persian Gulf region, including those now under way in Afghanistan and Iraq. Klare, Michael T., Blood and Oil, p. 1, U.S. Central Command Area of Responsibility, kort, sst p. 3. (Farvetegningen på kortet, gør det lidt svært at få en nøjagtig afgrænsning.) www.centcom.mil/aboutus/history1.htm 

161208, Think Progress, Drunk George Tenet lashed out at Bush's neocons: 'The Jews' who tried to 'pin the Iraq WMD fiasco on him.'

080109, Commontlreams, Roberto Rodriguez, America's Soul Sickness & Permanent War: Obama's Rude Awakening. Unless Obama renounces it on inauguration day, this doctrine will continue to be U.S. policy. (the Bush Cheney doctrine of permanent worldwide war.) ... , a nation that for too long has been sickened by what American Indian historian, Jack Forbes terms in Columbus and other Cannibals: soul-sickness. It is a disease that historically has allowed a majority of EuroAmericans to believe that God has chosen them lead the rest of the world into the light. permitting the United States to employ massive military might in achieving that so-called mandate.... Över the past eight years, it is the Bush-Cheney doctrine that has drawn the particular ire of the entire world - because it permits the United States to unilaterally attack any nation with massive force or to attack any target within any nation, rcgardless of civilian casualties. This doctrine has also permitted this outgoing administration to assert and amass extraordinary powers that have virtually rendered the U.S. Constitution meaningless.... Eradicating that soul-sickness is probably not possible; it is what sustains the myths of this nation. It is what defines this nation. The secular equivalent of believing that God has chosen the United States for a special mission is the belief that being a superpower is an elected position and that with that title, the United States and its allies are entitled to invade, topple or occupy any nation they see fit. And it is not something that began with Bush and Cheney.  ... It can be no irony that those that initiated the invasion and occupation of Iraq - in defiance of the UN - were the United States, Britain & Spain.... in the past 500 years, these are the world's leading imperialists and colonialist nations. Essentially, they have been the world's architects of the policies of dehumanization - feeling entitled by God and blinded by greed to trample over the lands, bodies and rights of peoples [of color] worldwide. ... It's that smug soul-sickness that permits Americans to believe that they indeed know what's best for the rest of the world.... Under this superstitious belief system, Westerners have been authorized by God to eliminate infidels and heathens if they don't convert (because if they dont the unbelievers may wipe out the civilized world).... Conversely. the death of one Westerner or the threat to one. is "just cause" for war. Since Westerners believe God has anoinlcd them to spread Judeo-Christian values, democracy &. capitalism, all their military incursions are justified. This is why war is constantly waged, always obviating the need for laws and trials .... This is why these chosen few insist upon English Only and walls along the southern, but not the northern border.

090109, WorldNetDaily,  Kissinger: Obama primed to create 'New World Order' Kissinger responded. "You have India, Pakistan; you have the jihadist movement. So he can't really say there is one problem, that it's the most important one. But he can give new impetus to American foreign policy partly because the reception of him is so extraordinary around the world. His task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period when, really, a new world order can be created. It's a great opportunity, it isn't just a crisis." [min fremhævelse - my enhancement - OJ]

150109, Haaretz, Rice: Olmert's claims regarding my Gaza UN resolution vote are 'fiction' U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reiterated Washington's contention on Wednesday that its abstention in a key UN Security Council vote on a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip had not left her "embarassed," as was claimed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.  ... McCormack said the comments attributed to Olmert "are wholly inaccurate as to describing the situation, just 100-percent, totally, completely not true" and suggested that the Israeli govemment might want to clarify or correct the record.

160109, ICH, Mickey Z. Obama Nation Upholds US Terror. On the night of March 9-10,1945, the target was Tokyo, where tightly packed wooden buildings took the brunt of 1,665 tons of incendiaries. LeMay later recalled that a few explosives had been mixed in with the incendiaries to demoralize firefighters (96 fire engines burned to ashes and 88 firemen died). The attack area was 87.4 percent, residential. By May 1945,75 percent of the bombs being dropped on Japan were incendiaries and LeMay's campaign took an estimated 672,000 lives. [Så ved vi, hvor Israel har lært det ! OJ] In a confidential memo of June 1945, Brigadier General Bonner Fellers, an aide to General MacArthur, called the raids, "one of the most ruthless and barbaric killings on non-combatants in all history." Secretary of War Henry Stimson declared it was "appalling that there had been no protest. ... Rosa Luxemburg sez: "The first revolutionary act is to call things by their true names." then, here goes: Whether we - or Lord Obama - choose to admit it or not, the vaunted "American way of life" was built on a nearly exterminated indigenous population, the African slave trade, and all those killed in places like Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Southeast Asia, Central America, the Middle East, etc. It was built on stolen land using stolen oil. Our way of life was built on terror and it is maintained by terror: e.g. cops, prisons, military, and the psychological oppression of propaganda.

040209. William Blum Change (In Rhetoric) We Can Believe In. The Obamania bubble should already have begun to lose some air with the multiple US bombings of Pakistan within the first few days following the inauguration. The Pentagon briefed the White House of its plans, and the White House had no objection. So bombs away - Barack Obama's first war crime. ... Iran has as much right to arm Hamas as the US has to arm Israel. ... And stop pretending that the United States gives a damn about the Afghan people and not oil and gas pipelines which can bypass Russia and Iran. The US has been endeavoring to fill the power vacuum in Central Asia created by the Soviet Union's dissolution in order to assert Washington's domination over a region containing the second largest proven reserves of petroleum and natural gas in the world. Is Afghanistan going to be your Iraq? .... The most difficult task for you, but the one that would earn for you the most points. To declare that Israel is no longer the 51st state of the union would bring down upon your head the wrath of the most powerful lobby in the world and its many wealthy followers, as well as the Christian-fundamentalist Right and much of the media. ... But you might try to understand where Kim Jong Il is coming from. He sees that UN agencies went into Iraq and disarmed it, and then the United States invaded. The logical conclusion is not to disarm, but to go nuclear. ... In your inauguration speech you spoke proudly of those "who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom ... For us, they fought and died, in places like... Khe Sanh." So it is your studied and sincere opinion that the 58,000 American servicemembers who died in Vietnam, while helping to kill over a million Vietnamese, gave their life for our prosperity and freedom? Would you care to defend that proposition without resort to any platitudes? ... Latin American countries almost never engage in war with each other, or any other countries. So for what kind of warfare are its military officers being trained by the United States? To suppress their own people. .... It's not enough to say that you're against torture or that the United States "does not torture" or "will not torture". George W. Bush said the same on a regular basis. To show that you're not George W. Bush you need to investigate those responsible for the use of torture, even if this means prosecuting a small army of Bush administration war criminals.

You aren't off to a good start by appointing former CIA official John O. Brennan as your top adviser on counterterrorism. Brennan has called "rendition" a "vital tool" and praised the CIA's interrogation techniques for providing "lifesaving" intelligence. Whatever were you thinking, Barack? ... Mr. President, there's a lot more to be undone in our foreign policy if you wish to be taken seriously as a moral leader like Martin Luther King, Jr.: banning the use of depleted uranium. cluster bombs, and other dreadful weapons; joining the International Criminal Court instead of trying to sabotage it; making a number of other long-overdue apologies in addition to the one mentioned re Vietnam; and much more. You've got your work cut out for you if you really want to bring some happiness to this sad old world, make America credible and beloved agam, stop creating armies of anti-American terrorists, and win over people like me.

121209, ZNet, Max Kantar, International Law: The First Casualty of the Drone War. En ikke-jurists gennemgang af international ret. I am going to argue the position that the United States is in violation of international law on several counts in regards to its bombings of Pakistan. Drawing on highly relevant and uncontroversial legal precedents established by the International Criminal Court, I will argue that strict adherence to even the most elementary standards of international law would require criminal prosecutlon of several high-level Bush and Obama administration officials ranging from the state department to the CIA. ... Most notably, in a meeting with Congress this past May, former senior counterinsurgency advisor to the U.S. Army, David Kilcullen, told the U.S. government to "call off the drones" noting that "since 2006, we've kllled 14 senior Al Qaeda leaders using drone strikes; in the same time period, we've killed 700 Pakistani civilians in the same area." [Selv hvis USA havde været i krig med Pakistan havde de ansvarlige kunnet dømmes for talforholdet.] Kantar henviser til konventionernes paragraffer og domme i ICC og ICTY.

171209, wired.com, Noah Shachtman, Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes. Tapping into drones' video feeds was just the start. The U.S. military's primary system for bringin overhead surveillance down to soldiers and Marines on the ground is also vulnerable to electrononic interception, multiple military sources tell Danger Room. That means militants have the ability to see through the eyes of all kinds of combat aircraft .... The military initially deyeloped the Remotely Operated Video Enhanced Receiver, or ROVER, in 2002. the idea was let troops on the ground download footage from Predator drones and AC-130 gunships as it was being taken. Since then, nearly every airplane in the American fleet - from F-16 and F/A-18 fighters to A-10 attack planes to Harrier jump jets to B-1B bombers has been outfitted with equipment :hat lets them transmit to ROVERs. ... But those early units were "fielded so fast that it was done with an unencrypted signal. It could be both intercepted (e.g. hacked into) and jammed," e-mails an Air Force officer with knowledge of the program. In a presentation last month before a conference of the Army Aviation Association of America, a military official noted that the current ROVER terminal "receives only unencrypted L, C, S, Ku [satellite] bands."

301209, ICH, John Pilger Welcome to Orwell's World 2010 In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inver[n?]ted lies that "passed into history and became truth.' Who controls the past', ran the Party slogan, 'controls he future: who controls the present controls the past'." ... In two speeches ... the Nobel Peace Prize winner affirmed that peace was no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that "extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan" to "disorderly regions and diffuse enemies". .... To the people of Afghanistan, ...he said wittily: "We have no interest in occupying your country." In Oceania, truth and Iies are indivisible. According to Obama, the American attack on Afghanistan in 2001 was authorised by the United Nations Security Council. There was no UN authority. He said the "the world" supported the invasion in the wake of 9/11 when, in truth, all but three of 37 countries surveyed by Gallup expressed overwhelming opposition. He said that America invaded Afghanistan "only after the Taliban refused to turn over [Osama] bin Laden". In 2001, the Taliban tried three times to hand over bin Laden for trial, reported Pakistan's military regime, and were ignored. Even Obama's mystification of 9/11 as justification for his war is false. More than two months before the Twin Towers were attacked, the Pakistani foreign minister, Niaz Naik, was told by the Bush administration that an American military assault would take place by mid-October.  .... Under the disturbing General Stanley McCrystal, who gained distinction for his assassination squads in Iraq, the occupation of one of the most impoverished countries is a model for those "disorderly regions" of the world still beyond Oceania's reach. This is a known as COIN, or counter-insurgency network, which draws together the military, aid organisations, psychologists, anthropologists, the media and public relations hirelings. Covered in jargon about winning hearts and minds, its aim is to pit one ethnic group against another and incite civil war: Tajiks and Uzbecks against Pashtuns. ... Something similar is planned for Afghanistan. People are to be forced into "target areas' controlled by warlords bankrolled by the Americans and the opium trade. That these warlords are infamous for their barbarism is irrelevant. "We can live with that," a Clinton-era diplomat said of the persecution of women in a "stable" Taliban-run Afghanistan. ... Behind much of this are the Israelis, who have long advised the Americans in both the Iraq and Afghanistan adventures. Ethnic-cleansing, wall-building, checkpoints, collective punishment and constant surveillance - these are claimed as Israeli innovations that have succeeded in stealing most of Palestine from its native people. And yet for all their suffering. the Palestinians have not been divided irrevocably and they endure as a nation against all odds.

040710, ICH/Anti War, Scott Horton Interviews Lawrence Wilkerson. "I think there's a very clear-cut case that Wurmser was not only working for Rumsfeld and Feith and the Pentagon, but he was also working for Israel. I think Feith was working for Israel too." Lawrence Wilkerson. Lawrence Wilkerson. former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, discusses why Bush and Cheney must have known [link] most Guantanamo prisoners were innocent,  ... and why Douglas Feith and Richard Perle are essentially representatives of Israel'sLikud party. ... Wilkerson: I believe that as soon as we got the 740 or so prisoners out of Afghanistan to Guantanamo, that we knew there had been improper battlefield vetting; that is to say, there were too few troops in Afghanistan, U.S. troops, to do the kind of combat status review tribunals, the other things under the Geneva Conventions that are normally done, that indeed we've done in every war since World War I. ... We had Australian Citizens and so forth. We had foreign ministers like Jack Straw from London, for example, a good friend of Colin's, asking us immediately to repatriate these people because they were our allies....So it became clear, I think, to the highest levels in the U.S. government quite swiftly in 2002 that we had people at Guantanamo we didn't know much about at all. ... and a whole bunch of them, maybe even the majority of them, might be nothing more than people who had been swept up on a battlefield that was quite chaotic, and incidentally swept up at times for bonuses that we were paying. ...  and the philosophy was that if you've got one terrorist in jail, who cares if you've got 500 innocent people in jail? .... The Uighers were another case in point. I think everyone early on knew that the Uighers were guilty of nothing but having been swept up on the battlefield. ... that leads me to believe that the highest people over there in the White House knew about it too. And if I conclude otherwise, then I have to conclude they were all idiots. ... Well, the first dimension that I mentioned was of course that we didn't want to let a terrorist go. And that's a legitimate dimension, in my view. The second one was, how on earth could you possibly admit to the American people how screwed up Guantanamo was? If you're Secretary Rumsfeld and you admit that, you've just admitted that you don't know what you're doing. .... another dimension to it,  .... It's what I call the "Karl Rove dimension." You want to exploit this as much as you possibly can, so you put them in shackles, you put hoods on them, you put them in orange jumpsuits, and you show a little TV footage every now and then. ... Well I think, you see, one other thing, when President Bush makes a decision to send, if I remember right, it was 14, the 14 high-value detainees that were fairly - we were fairly certain about were very instrumental either in 9/11 or in other activities that al Qaeda was planning or had accomplished, when he decided to pull them out of the secret prisons, which as you know were distributed across the globe, and put them in Guantanamo, there were Statements at that time, and some of us made with some derision in our voice, that, "Hey, for the first time since Guantanamo was opened, we really have some hardcore al Qaeda there." .... And frankly I think that was one of the president's reasons for putting them at Guantanamo. Because we knew the situation at Guantanamo was untenable in the long term and we needed to get some people down there who really counted. .... aluminum tubes. ... There are 16 intelligence entities in the United States, 17 if you count the Foreign Intelligence board. Fourteen of the 16 agreed on the nuclear program. I&R at State and DoE's intelligence outfit were the only two that dissented, and their dissent was duly noted in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate. ... there were other reasons to believe, .... the fact that we had been very wrong in 1990 and 1991 about his nuclear program. He was much further along than the intelligence community had estimated at the time. ... But at the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research, how much of the nuclear story were they buying? - ... : They didn't buy any of it. To Tom Fingar's credit, to Carl Ford's credit and other analysts in INR, they stood up against the rest of the intelligence community, except for the small element in the Department of Energy, and they said, "We dissent. We do not believe he has an active nuclear program. We do think he wants nuclear weapons, we do think that he will eventually try, but we don't think he's got an active program right now." And they were right. ...  Horton: Let me ask you about the role of David Wurmser and John Bolton in the State Department in the first Bush Jr. administration. It sort of seemed from the outside - there was a piece in Salon.com by Anonymous called "The State Department's Extreme Makeover," that came out, I think in 2002, maybe early 2003, saying "Boy, these guys that work for Cheney came in, turned the place upside down, marginalized or fired all the old CFR member types and you know if we put aside Iraq for the moment there's the story of how America broke the agreed framework with the North Koreans, put new sanctions on them, and now it's the Proliferation Security Initiative which said we're going to seize your ships at sea and all this, in what seemed like deliberate plan to provoke the North Koreans into withdrawing from the Nonproliferation Treaty, as John Bolton has been caught on tape saying, what's his plan with an as we'll, to so frustrate them that they would just go ahead and quit their international agreement.

080710, ICH, Paul Craig Roberts, Transparent Lies. The BBC reported on July 4 that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the US ballistic missile base in Poland was not directed at Russia. The purpose of the base, she said, is to protect Poland from the Iranian threat. Why would Iran be a threat to Poland? What happens to US credibility when the Secretary of State makes such a stupid statement? ... If not ignorant, why did the UN Security Council approve sanctions on Iran for adhering to its right under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to have a nuclear energy program? The UN sanctions are lawless. They violate Iran's rights as a signatory to the treaty. Is this the "Steel vice" of which Hillary spoke? As soon as Washington got sanctions from the Security Council, the Obama regime unilaterally added more severe US sanctions. ... Why has Russia stepped aside? At Washington's insistence, the Russian govemment has not delivered the sophisticated air defense system that Iran purchased. ... Perhaps Russia and China have decided to let the Americans over-reach until the country self-destructs.

070810, ICH, Fact or fiction?: New al-Qaeda leader lived in U.S. for years:

270810, Alternet - Fred Branfman, Mass Assassinations Lie at the Heart of America's Military Strategy in the Muslim World. Greatiy expanded U.S. military Special Ops teams, U.S. drone strikes and private espionage networks run by former CIA assassins create a threat to our security. ... Tie U.S. has conducted assassination programs in the Third World for decades, but the actual killing - though directed and financed by the CIA. - has been largely left to local paramilitary and police forces. This has now has changed dramatically. What is unprecedented today is the vast number of Americans directly assassinating Muslims - through greatly expanded U.S. military Special Operations teams, U.S. drone strikes and private espionage networks run by former CIA assassins and torturers. Most significant is the expanding geographic scope of their killing. While CENTCOM Commander from October 2008 until July 2010, General Petraeus received secret and unprecedented permission to unilaterally engage in operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Iran, former Russian Republics, Yemen, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, the Horn of Africa, and wherever else he deems necessary. Never before has a nation unleashed so many assassins in so many foreign nations around the world. ... "For the first time in history, a civilian intelligence agency is using robots to carry out a military mission, selecting people for killing in a country where the United States is not officially at war." This combination of human and technological murder amounts to a worldwide "Assassination Inc." that is unique in human affairs. [Man kan måske finde en parallel i den katolske kirkes heksejagt i Middelalderen !!! OJ] ... The centrality of assassination to U.S. warplans is revealed by the fact that it was at the heart of the Obama review of Afghan policy last fall. The dovish Biden position called for relying primarily on assassination, while the hawkish McChrystal stance embraced both assassination and more troops. No other options were seriously considered. ... A third factor behind the shift to mass assassination is that Petraeus and the U.S. military are also determined to attack jihadi forces in nations where the U.S. is not at war, and which are not prepared to openly invite in U.S. forces. ... As the N.Y. Times has also reported, Petraeus in September 2009 secretly expanded a worldwide force of assassins answerable only to the military, without oversight by not only Congress but the president himself: [!!!!! og de kalder USA et demokrati !!!! OJ] ... Although sold to the American public and Congress as targeted, selective assassination aimed only at a handful of "high value" insurgent leaders, the program has in fact already expanded far beyond that. As personnel and aircraft devoted to assassination exponentially increase, so too do the numbers of people they murder, both "insurgents" and civilians. ... But the present CIA assassination program in Pakistan and elsewhere is different not only because it is Americans who are themselves the assassins, but because of the unprecedented act of conducting mechanized mass assassination from the air. ... "(Drone) Reapers flew 25,391 hours (in 2009). This year, the air force projects that the combined flight hours of all its drones will exceed 250,000 hours. .... There were already signs in 2009, when drone strikes were a fraction of what hey are now, that they were striking large numbers of civilians and proving militarily and politically counterproductive. [!!!!!] .... A Global Research study documented the drone murder of 123 civihans in January 2010 alone. A particularly significant indication of the drone strikes' military ineffectiveness has come from Colonel David Kilcullen, a key Petraeus advisor in Iraq, who testified to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on May 23, 2009, that, "Since 2006, we've killed 14 senior Al Qaeda leaders using drone strikes; in the same time period, we've killed 700 Pakistani civilians in the same area. We need to call off the drones." ... Numerous moral, legal and ethical objections have been raised to this program of mass assassination. Philip Alston, the United Nations special representative on extrajudicial executions, has stated that "this strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions."  ... It was precisely such behavior that made the Gestapo and Soviet [??] secret police symbols of evil. Since the U.S. Congress has never reined in an Executive Branch that has routinely ignored international law since 1945.  ... Bruce Reidel, a counterinsurgency expert who coordinated the Afghan review for President Obama, said: "The pressure we've put on (jihadist forces) in the past year has also drawn them together, meaning that the network of alliances is growing stronger not weaker." ... In the long run, General Petraeus' strategy of expanding both ground and mechanized assassination throughout the 1.3 billion-strong Muslim worid is likely to do the greatest disservice to his country's interests. It is true that U.S. leaders have used local forces to assassinate tens of thousands since 1945 and that while these programs were largely ineffectual, they did not lead to attacks on American soil. [Når et resultat er så forudsigeligt, er det formentlig tilsigtet ! OJ] ... A clear place to begin protecting America is to abandon the assassination approach to war, ditch General Petraeus, end the military and CIA's focus on worldwide and mechanized mass assassination, and halt its reckless expansion of U.S. war-making into nuclear-armed Pakistan and so much more of the Muslim worid. (Fred Branfinan, the editor of "Voices From the Plain of Jars: Life Under an Air War" (Harper & Row, 1972), exposed the U.S. secret air war while living in Laos from 1967 to 1971.)

hernu

USAs herrefolksmentalitet

Mentaliteten viser sig dels i afvisningen af ICC og andre internationale aftaler, dels i de troppestationeringsaftaler, der indgås. De indeholder altid noget der nærmer sig diplomatstatus for amerikanske soldater. Somme tider går man så vidt, at det også forarger tænkende amerikanere, se 070107, CounterPunch, Brian Cloughley, "Return Our Rapist or Else... We Do What We Like" Man går naturligvis især over gevind, hvis en "farvet" stat, her Philippinerne, sætter en amerikansk soldat fast, her efter dom for voldtægt.

200-mile fly-intercept zone

Amerikanske baser

090107, Spero "News, Ex-ClA analyst says West misunderstands Al-Qaeda. Et interview med Michael Scheuer. Også Milanosagen er udtryk herfor.

040207, Observer Why won't the US tell us how Matty died? USA vil ikke udlevere film fra A10 flys angreb på engelske tanks, der dræbte en soldat, afslører "inquest". Og det er ikke et engangstilfælde. Den engelske regering opretholder ingen database over den slags hændelser. Der har ikke været tilfælde, hvor britiske soldater har dræbt amerikanske. Under første Iraq krig døde 5 engelske soldater at amerikansk ild, 4 af iraqisk !! Tabellen efter artiklen har andre tal.

150207, Times Online, Spain furious as US blocks access to Madrid 'chief'. "Spanish officials told The Times last night that they are furious to have been denied access to Mustafa Setmarian Nasar, a Syrian-born terrorist who has been part of the al-Qaeda leadership since the late 1980s. "This is Spain's most wanted man in the  terrorist world - it is galling to know that he is in the hands of an ally and they will not help us," a Spanish official said."

190207, Times Online, US military planes criss-cross Europe using bogus call sign. "In a report exposing arms trafficking to war-torn central Africa, Amnesty International has suggested that "US security authorities were engaged in a covert operation to ferry arms to Rwanda in the face of political opposition from the European Union." [2004]

280207, Guardian/AP, U.S. Warns Against EU's CIA Flight Probe. John Bellinger protesterer over EUParlamentets rapport. Og beder regeringerne berolige befolkningerne.

170307, Dagbladet Arbejderen. 250.000 soldater i 130 lande. Officielt... en kvart million amerikanske soldater er stationeret på 737 baser i 130 lande...USA's militær træner 100.000 soldater hvert år i hele 180 lande... (der er 196 lande i verden). 

170307, Dagbladet Arbejderen. Baser til missilskjold krænker Rusland.  USA og de politiske ledere i Europa, som ønsker missilskjoldet påstår, at det ikke er rettet mod Rusland og Kina, men derimod skal beskytte Vesten mod missiler fra Iran og Nordkorea. [Men] den bane, som et imaginært missil fra Iran og Den Demokratiske Folkerepublik Korea, har en helt anden retning, siger udenrigsminister Sergei Lavrov. 

100807, William Blum, The Anti-Empire Report, Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life. "I suggest a look at a recent article by the former US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, which appeared in the Financial Times of London... What London needs to know is that its answer will have consequences... The article is entitled: "Britain Cannot Have Two Best Friends".

220807, Noam Chomskey [Chomsky], US-Iran Policy Dynamics, "Rice said. "Stop the flow of arms to foreign fighters; stop the flow of foreign fighters across the borders." She is referring, of course, to Iranian fighters and arms. US fighters and arms are not "foreign" in Iraq. Or anywhere. The tacit premise underlying her omment, and virtually all public discussion about Iraq (and beyond) is that we own the world."

230807, KUNA, IAEA welcomes UN-IRAN nuclear deal, "The accord was announced by the UN watchdog's head of safeguards Olli Heinonen and Iranian national security official Javad Vaeedi after two days of talks in Tehran."

290807, Telegraph, London, US refuses all 'friendly fire' inquest requests. "Inquests into "friendly fire" cases will never hear evidence in person from US military witnesses, the Ministry of Defence has disclosed It is thought that the Pentagon fears that US troops suspected of negligently killing British service personnel may be arrested for manslaughter if they set foot in Britain. One coroner said yesterday that he was "surprised and outraged" that Britain was not challenging a blanket ban by the US on providing witnesses."

Rockefeller

Famille baptiste, le clan Rockefeller cultive une certaine générosité non dénuée d'arrière-pensées. Il ne s'agit pas simplement de faire preuve de générosité, mais bien d'acquérir la sympathie de la population afin de continuer plus aisément les affaires.(Gama Michael: Rencontres au sommet, p. 95) - Min primitive oversættelse af den elegante formulering: Rockefeller-klanen, en baptistisk familie, dyrker en vis gavmildhed, ikke helt fri for bagtanker. Det drejer sig ikke simpelthen om at vise gavmildhed, men snarere om at skaffe sig befolkningens sympati for lettere at kunne fortsætte sine forretninger.

John Foster Dulles

Tegnes der et portæt af i 170606, ICH, Jason Miller, Exceptional Americans Manifest Their Destiny: And to Hell with the Consequences... " i afsnittet: Portrait of a truly ugly American.

Cuba

200807, Fidel Castro, The Empire And The Independent Island. En historisk gennemgang.

Man kan ikke stole på USAs løfter

070508, Telegraph Gorbachev: US could start new Cold War: "It shows they cannot be trusted." "The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently." "Every US president has to have a war."

PLO og Arafat blev lovet beskyttelse af deres familier forud for flytningen fra Beirut til Tunis. Kapeliouk, p. 32.

USA har brug for en uklart defineret fjende

for at kunne diktere sin vilje overfor andre magter. Sovjetunionen/kommunisterne var for veldefineret. Da CCCP nedlagde sig, forsvandt fjenden. Fordelen for Bush/Obama o.l. ved terrorister er, at man altid kan finde nogen, så den skræk, der skal til for at disciplinere resten af Verden,  kan opretholdes. Der er altså en begrundelse for evig krig. Meningen med altid at bruge muslimer som eksempel, er at bemægtige sig kontrol med Mellemøstens olie, og at gøre fjende genkendelig. At det samtidig kan bruges i kampen for Israel sikrer støtte fra neoconservative, Israel-first'ere og andre sikre Bush-folk.

Theory of Perpetual War - alarmerende, men sammenhængende, og rimelig i sin logik. 230605, ingen forfatter angiven.

250810, ThinkProgress, Alex Seitz-Wald, Anti-Mosque Coalition's Website Owned By Neo-Conservative Islamophobe Frank Gaffney.

Hvad ville der ske, hvis USA blev opfattet som en "exporter of terrorism".

Meget rimeligt spørgsmål, for det har USA jo været længe. Nu har CIAs afdeling for at tænke ud fra fjendens synsvinkel lavet en rapport herom. 250810, Al Jazeera, Wikileaks Posts Classified CIA Memo. Der er link til rapporten. Eksempler på amerikanske terrorister i dokumentet: "David Headley, the Pakistani-American man who helped the Mumbai attackers in 2008; and Baruch Goldstein, the Jewish extremist who killed dozens of Palestinians in Hebron in 1994.

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