By Gene Ogorodov
In the years since 9/11 the United States has trapped itself in the endless cycle of fighting the chimera of Terrorism. Fueled by rabid anti-Semitism against Arabs and Muslims and horror of popular self-determination the American Empire has replaced the worthy adversary of Communism with an enemy so clearly imaginary that the Republic must send its armies to the antipodes to illegally violate the sovereignty foreign nations openly trampling over international law just to find partisans willing to engage in half-hearted attempts to attack it.
High-handedness, dishonesty, and ball-faced treachery now characterized every single political action undertaken by the United States. It has become unthinkable for the US to honor its treaty obligations and behave in a manner that attempted to achieve its will without coercion. The finer arts of diplomacy have been surrendered in favor of drones and cluster-bombs.
High-handedness, dishonesty, and ball-faced treachery now characterized every single political action undertaken by the United States. It has become unthinkable for the US to honor its treaty obligations and behave in a manner that attempted to achieve its will without coercion. The finer arts of diplomacy have been surrendered in favor of drones and cluster-bombs.
The idea of pursuing policies that benefit its allies hardly passes through the doors of the Oval Office or the Senate Chamber. America must act in an imperious manner for America alone.
Yet, providing the basic necessities of life to its people and ensuring their rights and liberties have been taken off the national agenda by both the Democrats and Republicans. Infrastructure, reform, and all other forms of meaningful legislation have withered and died. Only the satisfaction of capricious desires and the desperate clawing at the last threads of autocratic power of a dying empire remain the objectives of the American Government. The business of government has become the business of protecting business to exclusion of all other things—including the survival of the human species.
The obfuscated “imported fascism” that Gore Vidal slyly attributed to what he described as the National Security State has faded away to unmistakable corporate totalitarianism. Cant about “Freedom” and “Liberty” has become an ironically hollow lie. The United States has dropped the mask of legitimacy and become for all pretense and purposes a criminal state.
No longer does it take political nous and careful study to see the fascism in the Pax Americana. Five minutes looking at current events and a couple of functional synapse are more than sufficient to show the similarities between Mussolini's Italy or Pentin's France and the Bush and Obama administrations.
Wracked by the inherent contradictions of ur-fascism, the United States has become the sick-man of the world—a giant colossus spanning the globe wobbling under its own weight. In every region of the World political questions have silently shifted away from the United States. No longer does Washington dictate global policy, Regional Powers all over the world look for ways to dictate policy to Washington.
Trapped by its own tentacles and the insatiable greed of its corporate masters the United States finds the last hulking remnants of its power dragged from one corner of the earth to another destroying human life and bleeding treasure.
Unwilling to pay the bills of its political slave, Corporate America has forced Washington to turn on its own people and like Saturn consume its children. Thus on the brink of bankruptcy, the US Government has turned to the only means available to keep bankers feeding its gnawing addition to cash—austerity and higher taxation.
There is a perverse irony in Sequestration. The very means Congress has chosen to keep its own fiscal woes in check will compound the financial suffering of the American people and the Republic at large. Industry and infrastructure crumble as American power is uselessly projected across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
The cost of living in the United States has steadily risen since the 1970's with wage stagnation and increased uncertainty in employment. Times were tough for Americans in the 1990's and 2000's when the stock markets were booming and even leaner since the Financial Crash with an epidemic of foreclosures and a strangled job market. To hit the American people with the double jab of less government spending and predatory taxation threatens to disrupt the already unstable equilibrium.
“A Government of the People and for the People” has become a byword for the Great Lie. Simmering under the surface popular anger has gradually been building. In the most Right-Wing country in the First World Right-Wing movements have become militant and ubiquitous. The US Constitution is now a call to arms by People that neither love the Constitution nor the Government it established. Far from being pro-American these new “Patriots” openly express their bloody desire for armed rebellion—dreaming about lynching the President and his advisors and lining up Congress in front of firing squads.
Yet, the United States has ignored the two pronged treat of failed policy and a violently disgruntled populace and suppressed calls for much needed reforms. In spite of the inherent dangers the current political establishment encourages the new fascist serpent that calls itself the “Tea Party” to justify recalcitrance and inertia.
When the sober call for reform came fro the Left-Wing, in a stroke of cruel irony an ostensibly liberal President demanded the unequivocal suppression of the peaceful Occupy encampments. Thus the United States sealed off the only valve that could relieve the pressure from beneath. Occupy with all its faults provided an opportunity for the powers-that-be to decide on their own what reforms to make. It was about as conservative and undisrupted a call for reform imaginable, but the leading politicians in their unfathomable stupidity crushed that opportunity under their jackboots. It is doubtful that the next time the left calls for progressive reforms they will be so conciliatory, especially considering that the Radical Right-Wing is armed.
The US has unquestionably violated the rights of its people and created a perfect environment for instability; it also has betrayed its allies and continues to do both in the most overt and obnoxious manners possible. Take Britain for example.
Britons hate the United States and Americans with a passion. Considering the high-handed manner in which it dragged the Blair Government into Iraq or the duplicitous manner in which it covertly behaved in Northern Ireland, supporting both the UK and the IRA, what Briton would thank the United States for anything? Besides the tardy entry into the Second World War the United States has done nothing but harm the United Kingdom in the past seventy years. It is unspoken understood truth that the United Kingdom is a third rate power because and only because of the United States.
Far from being equal partners in the protection of Freedom and Democracy against an endless stream of manufactured opponents the United Kingdom bows before the dictates of Washington. In spite of all the rhetoric to the contrary, the United Kingdom has become little more than an American client state in Western Europe. It would not be surprising to see that when the Special Relationship finally crumbles the British People celebrate in the streets of London with an equal fervor to the jubilation after the defeat of the Third Reich.
For the past twelve year the United States has been shadow-boxing an imaginary enemy while constructing an argument against its own continuation in the hearts and minds of every people in the world. There is no nation or tribe that hasn't felt the cruel hand of the United States, and in our own era that villainy is coming home to roost.
The United States has been the most aggressive terrorist state in the world since the Second World War, and its illegal and ineffective policies in the last twenty years have made a good argument for a Global war against terrorism. As the fictitious War on Terror inches towards fifteen years the real War on Terror is beginning. A war not fought with bombs and mercenaries, but a war waged over negotiating tables and by peaceful demonstrations.
As the Arabs and Latin Americans liberate themselves from the thumb of the United States, the question ceases to be when will the American Empire crumble, but when will the people of North America and Western Europe deliver the coup de grace to the American tyrants.
The international prestige of Russia and China have begun to wax and the economic strength of India and Brazil has begun to blossom. New powers are growing up and old ones have found new What will the world look-like without the Pax Americana? Probably a world that is much more peaceful and more open to Democracy and self-determination.
