21st Century US/EU/AU/Israeli Axis glutting its maw on Islamic gore
A new constituency for imperialism
Concentrated in a few hands, the domination of finance capital over all sectors of the economy and the growing conflicts between the great powers as they sought to divide the world had “… caused the propertied classes to go over entirely to the side of imperialism.”
In Germany’s petty bourgeoisie it was then considered good form to support imperialist goals. Founded in 1898, the German Navy League, which lobbied for the construction of a German navy equal to the British, counted over one million members in 1908. All this led to the war fever that in 1914 also swept over the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and unleashed a continuing global disaster that only reached a temporary hiatus thirty years later with the end of World War II.
The hysteria and enthusiasm with which today’s European and American media and politicians respond to the rape of Libya evokes the period before the First World War. Many journalists and intellectuals who had maintained a cool head over the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have lost any critical discernment. Those who were previously moved by the drums of war have now lost all inhibitions.
The belligerent powers have done little to conceal their predatory aims. The six-month bombardment of the country by NATO, the dubious composition of the National Transitional Council, the use of Islamist fighters and foreign elite troops on the rebels’ side, and the massacre of Gaddafi supporters and black Africans (about which the Western press is largely silent) are ill-suited to substantiating the official propaganda about the “protection of the civilian population” and a “democratic revolution.”
The international conference on Libya on Thursday in Paris, at which the assembled great powers openly haggled over the division of the country’s oil fields and billions in frozen assets, revealed the real war aims: oil, money, influence and the re-division of the entire Middle East.
The amazing part is that the ‘left’ is on board for the imperialist adventure. Read the article. It details European ‘leftist’ involvement.
America doesn’t have a ‘left’ any longer. It has ‘progressives’, who sold out to Obama and imperialism in 2008 and have never looked back.
WW III has well and truly begun. The Axis will be driven mad by their ‘success’ in Libya. Next will be Syria, then Iran… then China.
I agree. America and Israel are the Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany of the 21st century. The war crimes committed by the US military have drawn comparisons with the war crimes committed by the Japanese and German armies. Gun control and loss of freedoms and democracy will happen in America as they did in Japan and Germany during the 30′s.