http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-wages-of-u-s-imperialism-and-americas-war-machine/5355496
By William C. Lewis
Corporate imperial
militarism controls U.S. society and wages destructive occupations
abroad to serve the capitalist interests of the war-making, armaments
manufacturing class whose bombs eradicate human beings for profit.
Externalized racism and
depleted uranium radiation warfare smashes the aspirations of target
victims in Afghanistan and Iraq, CIA drones slaughter civilians
mercilessly in Pakistan, napalm and agent orange used in Vietnam is
still effecting children with birth defects, hundreds of thousands in El
Salvador and Guatemala miss their disappeared relatives that the U.S.
military and CIA trained Latin American dictators and their police
constabularies in racist anticommunist doctrine to murder and justify
the imperial extraction of natural resources to protect the elite
wealthy classes and rich landowner death squads using secret police
assassination methods.
The CIA trains murderous
guerillas as part of proxy sabotage whenever a government the U.S.
imperial corporate war masters don’t like achieves advances in health
care and education for their population while simultaneously offering
land reform or industrialization beneficial to the population and
plentiful jobs. Whether CIA-contra proxy mercenary guerilla insurgent
violence against teachers, priests and peasant farmers supporting the
Sandinista revolutionary government or NATO massive aerial bombardment
of infrastructure and terrorization of the Libyan African population
with jihadist barbaric killers, the goal is to undermine systems that
are functioning for the majority of people and therefore undermining the
control of the U.S imperial wall street armaments manufacturing oil
mafia elite.
The U.S. massacre armaments machine didn’t like the Sandinista
revolution because El Salvador and Guatemala were stable customers of
armaments to terrorize their populations and one leftist regime left
standing in the hemisphere perhaps might result in the strengthening of
revolutionary upheavals in the neighboring colonies and therefore
represented a threat to the sale of counterinsurgency equipment to these
nations. Gaddafi’s Libya featured a free health care system, free
university, public infrastructure projects for his population and this
leader threatened to demand payment of his nations’ oil in gold rather
than the dollar.
These nations are seen as targets for obliteration and destruction of
the U.S. military corporate war imperial NATO masters who thrive on
death and arms sales to profit their personal bank accounts.
The destructive apparatus
known as the U.S. war machine builds bases all around the world for the
private corporate profit of Halliburton, Kellogg Brown and Root and
maintains concentration camps with emaciated prisoners cleared for
release at Guantanamo who are being force fed and choked to maintain the
profitability of running overseas prison garrisons for the sake of a
bloody empire run by the rich.
Lies make money.
Lies are an immensely profitable undertaking.
A lying industry prevails in the United State serving the corporate
military war factory interests that enriches the capitalist ruling
class. Televisions and armaments factories are running in smooth
operating precision as the conditioned masses are left to stare at their
leaders who threaten to crash the global financial system and lie about
a lack of funds for the civilian government while innocent civilians
are blown to smithereens with National Security Agency reconnaissance
assisted CIA-military piloted drones from the skies during a shutdown of
basic services for the poor.
Mass media deception is a
perpetual function of the armaments industry as it uses the avenues of
print, electronic television and radio to sell the homicidal lies of the
arms merchants who wanted to lay waste to Syria as part of the
NATO/U.S. imperialist capitalist destruction of this land with Tomahawk
missiles. A study of the mass media on http://public-accountability.org/ reveals
that MSNBC, Fox, PBS and CNN television anchors interviewing former
Bush national security advisor Stephen Hadley, who made various
arguments in favor of a U.S./NATO military attack against Syria, failed
to mention that he is a director of Raytheon which manufactures the
Tomahawk missile. Raytheon paid Hadley $128,500 in compensation last
year, and he is owner of 11,477 shares of stock in this armaments
company, worth $900,000. Out of the four times Hadley’s arguments for
U.S. military violence against Syria were featured in mainstream media,
including three televised interviews—on Bloomberg TV, Fox News and CNN
and once in a Washington Post opinion editorial, media anchor or
editorial personnel responsible for identifying a guest experts’
official title only mentioned his position as former national security
advisor and nothing about his war profiteering affiliation with
Raytheon.
A variety of other guests
which appeared on the mainstream corporate networks and advocated for
militarized violence against Syria during the attempted run-up for war
are affiliated with munitions company or “defense” or intelligence
contracting interests. The study shows that 22 different commentators
with connections to defense and intelligence contractors or defense
related investment firms made 111 appearances as quoted guests, experts
on news shows or opinion editorial authors and mass media news personnel
made only 13 attempts within the various media outlets to disclose the
guest commentators’ connections to the military-intelligence weapons
industry. Former Centcom commander Anthony Zinni expressed support for
attacking Syria with NATO/U.S weaponry three times on CNN, once on CBS
This Morning and in an opinion editorial in the Washington Post and none
of the media personnel working in an interviewer or editorial capacity
for these outlets mentioned that he is an outside director of BAE
Systems, the third largest military services company in the world, based
in London.
So much for the mass media
serving as a fourth branch of government to check the powerful when
reporters at media outlets that reach the vast majority of the
population are completely bought off by the armaments industry and
reporters who are actually doing their jobs are repeatedly spied on and
more whistleblowers are persecuted than any other administration
combined under the Espionage act of 1917.
Armament factory military
corporate war interests of the U.S. Pentagon war machine cause Pakistani
teenagers to commit suicide due to the ever present trauma of
assassination squad drones hovering over their land. What does this say
about the moral level of the United States when because of a lack of
investment in socially uplifting employment prospects, students are now
being channeled into this industry tainted with the blood of innocent
men, women and children because of the massive influence of the military
industrial armaments complex in shaping the educational institutions
that are the main determinant in producing the array of occupations,
industries goods and services that we call the economy? Newspaper
columnists blurt obscenities of internalized racism such as murdering
Pakistani children is better from an American standpoint because they
could somehow harm U.S. citizens in the future.
How many of these future drone operators will work for humanitarian
purposes such as rescuing people during disasters or delivering food to
the homeless versus violating the fourth amendment of U.S. citizens with
a constitutional right from unreasonable searches and seizures and,
worse yet, political assassination of activists deemed criminals by an
elite corporate militarized cabal? Perhaps this is an unknown, but we
might ask how many of them are affiliated with progressive social causes
or anti-racist, ant-imperialist views or know that imperialism is a
process by which military empires extract natural resources for
corporate profit as is the case with Afghanistan’s lithium as well as
geostrategic positioning for oil pipelines and that U.S./NATO/ CIA
military attacks against target nations always involve the
indiscriminate slaughter of civilians.
Thirty thousand drones will
fly over the U.S. by 2020. This war-surveillance machinery is already
used in a global assassination campaign that denies both foreigners and
U.S. citizens the right of trial before execution. Surveillance drones
deny the target freedom from unreasonable searches, seizures and
surveillance under the fourth amendment, domestically, not to mention
the national sovereignty and lives of the targets of U.S-CIA-military
imperial violence including scores of innocent civilians deemed
“collateral damage,” or worse yet, associates of the target deliberately
murdered for political assassination purposes. U.S. Imperialism—it’s no
delight for the people of the world and increasingly not for U.S.
citizens unaffiliated with the war machine either.
