AN AMERICAN FRIEND ON GLOBALISATION AND WAR

AN AMERICAN FRIEND ON GLOBALISATION AND WAR

Xyz - agreed - behind much of what is going on concerns controlling access to natural resources. The all powerful nation-states that no longer necessarily represent the people living within their territories take on the behavior of a hungry predator whose "Food is Running Out" - limited and in many cases Non-Renewable Natural Resources (e.g., Oil & Minerals). 

 

They fill the masses with propaganda of hate - Hate Muslims, Taliban, Iranians and before that hate Russians & Chinese - "Evil Empires"/Commies. 

 

Meanwhile, they were selling the American people down the river and I suppose the Europeans governments doing the same. 

 

America was built on the ideology of Free Enterprise - the shopkeeper, gunmaker, blacksmith, yeoman farmer, etc. - not the Milton Friedman Chicago School of "Free Market" economics espoused by modern day politicians and their multi-national cohorts that beginning with Reagan and running through both Democratic & Republican regimes (not administrations) sent our jobs overseas to maximize profits by using slave labor and no environmental controls. There is no way they can fix this since an American worker can't compete against someone making 38 cents/hr and with no pollution controls - Impossible!!!!! Note they hardly talk of it.  I think Obama's annual speech will address this at a superficial level!

 

All of this is exacerbated by Globalization and exponential population increases where there is a desire for the rest of the World to attain the same materialistic lifestyles of the West - that were likely unsustainable in the long-run in the first place!  I can't see how it is sustainable and to me this means a recipe for increased conflict around the world and mass immigrations of the impoverished masses to the Lands of Plenty (USA, Europe, South Africa, Brazil, Canada & ???) - WHEN THE SHIP SINKS THE RATS WILL SWIM - placing tremendous pressures on these countries' social and physical infrastructures if not jeopardizing their ways of life.  The West has manipulated the economies and politics of these countries for ideological reasons during the Cold War, and today and then to control access to natural resources - propping up and putting into power despots, dictators, keeping the masses poor and uneducated on purpose - YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW! 

 

Crass materialism was the opiate of the masses as espoused in 1984 - which along with the propaganda of FOX/CNN/MSNBC kept Americans fat dumb and happy and full or hate (as noted) with an arrogance that we and our way of life/culture was somehow superior to the rest of the World (even though over 1 million children aborted/yr in the USA, largest consumer of illegal drugs and a failed War on Drugs incarcerating all kinds of poor folks who come out worse than when they went in, a disappearing middleclass, and somewhere around US$ 16 trillion debt, our military has invaded other countries and/or foreign policy has resulted in millions of innocent civilians being killed over the last 20-30 years). Americans are only now beginning to wakeup, but it may be too little too late to turn things around.

 

Arab Springs, Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party - this is just the beginning.  In America the approval rating for Congress is only around 11-13% as is likely the case in many countries across the globe.  The political elites that run these nation-states no longer represent the citizens of these countries!  The people running for President in America are an embarrassment to anyone's intelligence and besides if Obama is voted out the person coming in is just a marionette puppet on the end of a string no different than Obama with similar outcomes - so on the surface a facade of difference but in reality there will be little or no change until the System is fixed and that may require a complete collapse of what degree of stability we know today - I hope not for the sake of mankind but what is happening today is not sustainable economically, morally or socially!