Letters to the Editor
"They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force - nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just a robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."
--Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad--
Senator Carl Levine, Tue, 29 May 2001 10:25:37 -0400
Letter
Gov. Grey Davis Wed, 29 May 2002 15:02:58 -0700 (PDT)
Letter,
my letter to Davis
Why California needs Maglev rapid transit
My Letter to Grey Davis
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey Letter
See this link:
"SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA: The Real Reason the Government
Won't Debate Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Re-legalization",
Summary: It is an Open Letter to All Americans By R. William
Davis which provides Important documented evidence of a Secret
Business and Political Alliance between the U.S. Corporate
"Establishment" and the Nazis. It shows how this alliance
was formed before World War II and, more importantly, how
it continued during and after the War into the Nixon and
Bush presidencies and beyond.... "
Commentary
Of related interest: Bush's
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Composed febuary 2001
The truth about Poverty, Mental illness
and Genetics October 28th 2002
"Nec Vir fortis, nec faemina Casta" -Polydore
Virgil-
America is in serious trouble. Like a wounded
animal it does not know whether to strike or to run as is
the case concerning its present perception and its characteristic
attitude and approach towards isolationism and interventionism--which
is being sorely tested much to its own chagrin. Ideologically
speaking, the US champions the rule of law, uniformity that
is often selectively applied and enforced according to the
whims of Multinational's, who seek to further embroil the
US in into system of intractable conflicts, to further weaken
its power to dictate an agenda that America once held, a moral
majority consensus after Allied victory in WWII. The outcome
of that event was the Cold War, and the rhetoric was the ideal
of moral humanist intervention to safeguard self determination
through globally managed US sponsored economic development.
The onus for the Marshall plan and other programs like it
was to prevent the spread of soviet expansionism and other
potential further occurrences of global war.
The reality was a proliferation of interventions,
by the US under a doctrine of low intensity conflict that
further solidified the US's position as hegemon after WWII
though such practices sanctified amoral positivism at the
expense of its initial values after arduous moral global conquest.
Later interventions such as The Vietnam War demonstrated that
US geostrategic doctrines were based solely on corporate interests
along with an ideology that blinded it to the realities of
Third World nationalism. Furthermore the post WWII war machine
was predicated upon internal policies that necessitated massive
militarization along with its byproduct, arms proliferation
to safeguard that unstable alliance structure.
The US economy collapsed after Vietnam and the dollar was
de-linked from the gold standard. OPEC threatened embargo
and Ford promised to WHIP stagflation. Carter Once again reasserted
the need for human rights to be a pretext for intervention
yet the Iranian hostage situation proved to be his undoing
the fall of the shah and the rise of the Ayatollah bellied
the inconsistencies of his foreign policy as well. Carter
did realize that 'dependence of Western nations on vital oil
supplies from the Middle East, and the pressures of change
in many nations of the developing world constitute a threat
to global peace, to East-West relations, and to regional stability..'
and yet Carter's multinational corporatist trilateral commission
was undercut by Carter's own peace initiatives and those who
profited from the then and now current oil, guns and butter
security relationship. Reagan outspent the soviets while the
CIA failed to predict the fall of the USSR, while his own
massive militarization program increased inflation and the
American deficit along with the exportation of our manufacturing
base abroad to appease the corporate MNC imperialists, desirable
for exponential profits at the expense of human rights, American
sovereignty and national integrity.
The Cold War ended, however not the system of competing alliances
and intractable entanglements dictated by the militarized
'Global village,' the offshore capital market and currency
speculators. Hence the carryover from Vietnam, the specter
of defeat will always hover over us if we cannot re-address
our security and national economic priorities along with a
focus on sustainable long-term solutions as opposed to selling
out US prestige and national security for immediate corporate
profits to those entities that are only loyal to their own
bottom-line.
Presently, the US class biased intelligentsia has increasingly
been called to defend the corporate economic status quo at
the expense of its own historical moral discourse by its policies
of intervention and dependence upon safeguarding autocracies
in the third world. Hence its current security is being challenged
by its conflict of morals and strategic doctrines being compromised
or concocted out of corporate greed. The US is a necessary
evil that must rectify its own foreign policy stance to one
that truly envisions long-term sustainable goals such as implementation
of alternative sources of fuel, rather then fueling alternative
forms of terror under the rubric of American democracy. Rhetoric
and policy should not be biased by class rather by the old
standard of what is best to maintain the wealth of a nation
instead of what is best for its fair weather benefactors the
multinational Corporations.
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