by Denis A. Conroy for The Saker Blog
“It’s not a choice between war and peace. It’s a choice between war and endless war. It’s not appeasement. I think it’s better even to call it American self-interest”.
Michael Scheuer (commenting on American Foreign Policy).
“For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic”.
“No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states”.
Christian Lous Lange.
In the American context, institutionalised barbarism appears to be the dynamic connecting individual self-interest to state self-interest. The Stars and Stripes, used as a proselytizing aphrodisiac to stimulate and connect opportunists with opportunity, continues to push a contumelious brand of fake democracy across the globe. Evidence of patriotic emotions blindly supporting the fulcrum of the militarised state, enable a latter-day Norse-God-of-War-Mythology to whitewash the collective ego by glorifying war. Hence the damage the US of A has wrought on the globe. Baptised in the waters of a military lore facilitating grandiosity, the consequences of war are relegated to an amnesia-zone where guilt, aside from memory, is expunged. It’s an age-old practice, group muscle and individual greed combining to strip the ‘other’ of sovereign values in pursuit of opportunities that afford the victor ever more privileges.
In the process, self-interest makes a significant number of people blind and the remainder, sharp sighted as birds of prey seeking their next ‘kill’. If the only criteria of judgement is the rule of power over the ‘other’ for the purpose of acquiring his or her resources, then history must teach us that civilisation is merely the gloss we in the West put on our criteria…like lipstick on a pig…to conceal the fact that the real goal all along was to give Mammon the whip hand in a color-coded reality to represent the white man’s burden as virtuous. What we judge to be our best chance of securing a place in the delusional nirvana we have created for ourselves while sitting in gated-communities where exclusivity reigns supreme, is merely the product of Capitalism’s fake truth-serum telling us that to be happy, we as misunderstood whites need to live behind ten -foot high concrete walls to be secure.
If we keep on believing that Capitalism (aka fake democracy) has a god given right to determine who should live and who should die in a world where regime change is used to erase opposition to America’s rapacious hegemony, then freedom of dissent, along with democracy will be thrown under the “Thy-Will-Be-Done” bus.
In the latter part of the 20th century, it became evident, that by not questioning the practices of privatisation, but instead, sheepishly supporting the Neo-Con-Dadaism narrative then used to suggest that unregulated business practices were the stuff of progress…the future…that this wilful blindness allowed the American public to conveniently avoid asking themselves why 20 million people of colour were murdered in the Middle East and many other areas of the world by their military in quest of ever more (booty) power.
Flouting their exclusivity from within gated walls, the perpetrators of these deeds are, to this very day protected like endangered fauna, whilst the victims of their abuse have become the dust wafting across the globe on the wings of an American Hallowed-Be-Thy-Tax-Dollar-Dream.
At which point it might be worth stopping a moment to observe how the growth of the American Empire…as empires that came before it did…require the destruction of insurgency movements that arose to obstruct the criterial rules the colonial powers intended to impose on them. And, as no state is free from militarism…which is inherent in all concepts of the sovereign state…and as there are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states…America, deeply involved in the exploitation of Middle East resources, had the temerity to rebrand the David and Goliath saga of courageous combat to suit its own version of The Great Game. Acting like it was the owner of the entire Middle East, it decided to do with it what it liked ( bomb it with impunity)… and as Muslim culture was ‘alien’ criteria…it decided to do what it does best, open its very large Hollywood-like mouth and rebrand all ‘David’ activists protecting themselves from the American ‘criteria-of-excellence’ (aka fake democracy) as terrorists.
It had become apparent to America that there were many David activists in different parts of the world resisting their ‘criteria of excellence’ so they commenced projects like “The Project for the New American Century” to deal with the recalcitrant ‘Davids’ and teach them that Westerners were the real enforcers of values…Pax Americana style!
And so it came to pass that the level of militarisation America had achieved was translated into a Thy-Kingdom-Cometh-From-Washington narrative to justify its expansionary dream of world dominance and set it against a backdrop of resistant third-world ‘Davids’…and the CIA were there to see that heads would roll : Patrice Lumumba in the Congo for instance, widely seen as a martyr for the wider Pan-African movement, only to disappear into the annals of third world historic narratives when the US choked off oxygen to this enlightened leadership, whose values, antithetical to the American hegemonic crusade, were deemed too radical.
Salvador Allende, Founder of the Socialist Party of Chile, assassinated in 1973 in second world narrative style by the CIA who were in Chile to protect America’s right to impose its imperial ‘criteria-of-excellence’ on Chile…and America’s ‘criteria-of-excellence’ meant systematic control over other people’s right to make fundamental decisions regarding their economic or political future.
The US-backed overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader in 1953; the coup in Guatemala engineered by the CIA; US funded and brutal “dirty wars” against leftists throughout Latin America in the 1970’s; and much more…like the Obama administration’s intervention in Yemen for the purpose of expanding the drone war there; the US backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia in 2006 was another prominent example of toxic criteria joining together an interminable list of egregious war crimes perpetrated in Korea and Vietnam in the mid. 20th century, where more than six million people were killed attempting to forge a future for themselves beyond the political orbit of mega-power America, an engineering tour de force steeped in institutionalized barbarism by the sole super-power until other tech-giants arrived on the world stage…notably China and the revitalized Russian Federation…to curtail its rapacious inroads into so many smaller and vulnerable states like Syria where untold havoc was wrought on millions of innocent people.
Meanwhile, there are many people profiting from the mayhem of war. And stranger than strange, the warmongering spooks in Washington who were party to the atomization of so many innocent brown, black and yellow bodies across the globe…especially in the Muslim world… were still around and living in exceptional circumstances that allowed them to enjoy the spoils of war in comfort. They have names like Henri Kissinger, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama and many others who live behind security walls and revel in their misplaced glory, imagining themselves to be American crusaders of the first order. They may even have had to periodically return to the King James Bible to reacquaint themselves with the verity of Psalm 109:11 …The Song of The Slandered…so that they might stay in touch with the spirit of their stalwart enterprise.
“May his days be few; may another take his position.
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow
May his children wander as beggars; may they seek sustenance far from their ruined homes”.
”Mission accomplished” as George Bush and Bibi Netanyahu would say while ignoring the millions of refugees they have created.
Yet, outside the 10-foot-high security walls there are many Americans who abjure the folksy patriotism, the investment bruhaha concerning America’s God-given-right to bring a B. Grade Version of redemption… money as panacea…to the world. Troubled by a myopic homogeneous vision of what America stands for, free-thinking Americans must suffer enduring pains that define the inanity of a system that glorifies ignorance and fails utterly to heal the ills that pollute the health of the nation and the ecosystem. To have arrived at a point where business acumen is accepted as the all abiding panacea for…well…everything pertaining to human needs…is to uncritically consume the political gruel that has corrupted the intellectual faculties of state polity in the first instance. To do nothing but accept the limited worldview of the institutional barbarians who control the agenda is akin to assisting in the stillbirth of democracy.
To observe the hot wars, cold wars, tepid wars and the wars of duplicity that underpin modern day America is to witness a cancer of treasonous untruths despoil…tear apart…the American dream. America has succumbed to a media identity that requires 300 million people to hover around their T.V.’s, their iPhone SE, computers and the Hollywood cinematic verbiage that keeps the cosmetic mantra of American criteria within easy reach. The extraordinary proliferation of the electronic media has become phenomena that encloses the national psyche within a most dangerously septic sea of ignorance that allows no room for escape from its propaganda. The function of the screens is to force-feed Russophobia as well as enthusiastically spreading falsities to cloak America’s barbarous wars behind fetishisms that conceal truths while reinforcing the mythology of American exceptionalism. The American public remains mainly ignorant of the facts behind the war in Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine and appear happy to remain so…they ride their petitions…prayers…like Doctor Strangelove did riding a bomb believing himself invincible…Thy-Kingdom-Come-Thy-Will-Be-Done journey to hell. Dinosaurs like Hollywood and NATO remain star acts in an era that has lost all mobility.
Without doubt, the trajectory of the American Dream was influenced by the notion that God (the European variety) had bestowed upon America a franchise for the future that was based around the creation of wealth. But what transpired over time was consolidation of wealth and power, engineered by an elite who believed in shaping the ‘Dream’ from above…and above meant banks! By the end of the 20th century, smart money, smart phones, smart computers, smart-arses, smart drugs, smart brands and smart paid-for-politicians made it abundantly clear that the business of America was to invest money so that they could make more of the same. Claiming that usury is the ultimate good, The Wizards of Osmosis, operating from behind curtains within the deep state, projected hope per medium of shadowy images and spoke with booming voices against anyone who questioned their exceptionality, because their sole purpose was to see that their ‘Thy-Will-Be-Done’ doctrine would be accepted without any public consultation.
From outside of America, projection seems to be what America is all about. The self-serving biases in their cognitive and perceptual processes are distorted by their need to maintain and enhance self-esteem. Finding a place in the global community is fraught with insurmountable difficulties relating back to their crusader mentality. As a can-do people they seem to feel that the world is their oyster and want to rearrange it after their own image. After all, their ancestors came from Europe where these biases originated from, and we know that self-serving biases die hard. To Europeans, ‘pagan’ was a self-serving perception used to colonise foreigners and have them serve their conquerors. As of this era, they fail to understand that the world is already inhabited by a diversity of people and have very limited understanding of their cultures. This ignorance is reminiscent of an earlier saga in their history, when conquering the native Indians of the Americas was an occupation that was achieved on autopilot. So, what has changed?
“Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted” …Francois de La Rochefoucauld
However, in a world where language is continuously manipulated to serve one or another’s self-interest, America’s war on the Muslim world is a prime example of a double-speak that dares not admit that the U.S. is faced with an insurgency, rather than mere terrorism. The war of words, like military wars, the imposition of sanctions, knows no shame and is totally without honour; the war of words is used as a big stick to bludgeon all who would dare challenge the right of the hegemon to vilify, coerce, bully or bomb anyone who believe they can design a less venal system.
Hence the constant stream of propaganda and imputations that flow from Washington’s think tanks with the intent of undermining China’s geopolitical role in the world. Multiple factions in Washington exist solely to create propaganda weapons in the hope that they might undermine, if not sabotage China’s Silk Road strategies. Campaigns designed to portray BRI as a swamp of corruption, incompetent, a “debt” trap and “malign” abound to discredit Chinese behaviour.
But change is in the air which might challenge American hubris. Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz pulling back the curtain to reveal show-ponies as mere donkeys when their tricks and illusions are stripped of their covering.
So, allow me to retrieve the words of Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime Minister of Australia from the mothballs and close the page:
“The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race”.
Denis a. Conroy
Freelance Writer
Australia
well said mate.
I enjoyed your poetic expressions and poignant discussion immensely . Excellent writing.
Bravo my friend, this is a great piece. Enjoyed it all the way to the last word.
“Claiming that usury is the ultimate good,”
Usury is the only sin in the Quran that Allah(swt) declares war against all who deal with it. When you understand the current system, then you can understand why God(swt) took such a harsh stance against this specific act. This evil system will collapse eventually, always have hope. Peace.
To secure full-spectrum control of the global money supply the Mafia made sure that its fake mind-control religions for Goys – Christianity & Islam – forbid the goys usuary, therefore relegating them to debt-slaves. Smart move.
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When I say usury is forbidden to us Muslims I mean it in its totality, so its forbidden to both lend it out to others, and also to take a loan from a lender that charges interest. So theoretically if Muslims aren’t supposed to be taking interest from those who lend it(you call it mafia) how would we ever become their debt slaves? Now let me give you the context in which the verse’s about usury were revealed, in order to further hammer down the point. The Arab Jews in Medina used to charge the pagan Arabs loans on very high interest, leaving many of them destitute, and basically debt slaves. When the people of Medina accepted the Prophet(saww) as their leader, usury was eventually forbidden for them. So it became impossible for the Arab Jews to take advantage of the new Arab Muslims. This was one of the major reasons why the Arab Jews from Medina started conspiring with the big enemies of the Muslims, the Arab pagans of Mecca, in order to destroy the early Muslim community. So if you say Islam was made up by them(i’m assuming you mean Jews), why would they put in a law that shoots themselves in the foot? I feel like many just hear a slogan or idea and just run around with it without really having any understanding of what they’re talking about.
Also there is a verse in the Quran about how the Jews were also forbidden Usury, so if we understand this verse, its basically saying the Jews changed their religion, at least this specific ruling out of greed for the world. How the Jews believe in it today is they are allowed to charge interest to non Jews, but they are forbidden to charge interest to other Jews. If one thinks even a little bit they can quickly see how this ruling makes no sense. It couldn’t be revealed by God(swt) because it lacks wisdom, it had to be the works of men. Usury is connected to greed, and if we understand greed, we can quickly see that once a person gives into it, he never stops at what he already attained, his hands continue to reach out in order to grab more. So why would God(swt) allow usury against a certain group of people, and not against another? Once those who allow it even partially, get into the habit of charging interest to those they are “allowed,” they would also charge interest to those they are not allowed(Jews), because that’s how greed works. Usury is wrong as a practice because it is unjust in its totality. Its not something that can apply to some and not others, that is a ridiculous idea.
To the well-chosen quotations at the head of the article, I would like to add the following:
“Today, however, we have to say that a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. Note that ‘territory’ is one of the characteristics of the state. Specifically, at the present time, the right to use physical force is ascribed to other institutions or to individuals only to the extent to which the state permits it. The state is considered the sole source of the ‘right’ to use violence. Hence, ‘politics’ for us means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state”.
– Max Weber, “Politics as a Vocation”
Weber’s definition applies perfectly to the US government, provided you accept that it considers the entire world (and now, space) as its territory.
“Without doubt, the trajectory of the American Dream was influenced by the notion that God (the European variety) had bestowed upon America a franchise for the future that was based around the creation of wealth”.
And yet, a mere 243 years later, the USA is irretrievably bankrupt. What a record: to take over a brand-new, virgin continent never before exploited for gain, and to become hopelessly insolvent in less than 250 years.
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2019/01/national-bankruptcy-as-board-game.html#more
Excellent presentation. Reading your excellent article a thought flashed through my mind. It related to Empires of the past and the Empire wannabe of the present. The Empire of the past is the Western Roman Empire and it’s endless wars. The point being is the illusion of enrichment. The enrichment only benefited few, while the majority of the citizens paid the price. To make story short. The other day I was watching Greek video regarding Greek dialects. During the presentation the issue of Latin and English inheritance from the Greek came along, and the point which was made was such: Greeks had numerous words for the various types of sea, yes seas. The word in the example was “SAL”. Western Roman Empire run out of gold to pay their legions in England, hence someone came up with the idea to pay them with bags of “SALT”, yes salt (the name came as a result of getting the “salt” from the “sal”, which was an obvious extension. Hence a new word was created in Latin which was the “SALARY”. So there you have it. The modern Empire wannabe, the US is using fake paper instead.
Pulling no punches, Mr Conroy, a hard-hitting piece that hammers in an entire row of nails in one go. Excellent, thanks.
As I have written before, the American colonies until 1776 were under the direct control of the English Crown and after 1776 the US became the personal fief of the Rotschilds banking empire, later on backed by the Rockerfellers and others. Private bankers strengthened their control over the US in 1913, with the creation of the Federal Reserve, a private central bank.
What is the US today ? A feudal state. The bankers, in conjunction with corporations, are the new robber barons. The US Government has been reduced to a bunch of feudal scrybes, doing as told. The politicians in Congress are for the most part entertainers, giving the illusion of democracy, backed by two kangaroo political parties. The police and military have been reduced to feudal retainers, both protecting and fighting for the robber barons. The ordinary people have been reduced to modern sefs, working, paying taxes and sending their sons and daughters to foreign wars. The media is controlled by six corporations, supervised by the CIA. The role of the media is to filter what kind of news enters the US and to direct the attention of the public, for the most part, to local matters. The only democracy which has been permited can be found in town hall meetings, which are unimportant, as they deal with local issues.
The US has been at war during 93 % of its existance. Who gained ? The bankers, and later of the corporations.
For the globalist elite, two obstacles both existed and exist for the adoption of their globalist agenda. The obstacles are Russia and China. In 1812 Napoleon invades Russia. He fails. In 1914 the Kaiser invades Russia. He fails. In 1941 Hitler invades Russia. He too fails. All three were financed by private bankers. We now have the banker controlled NATO encircling Russia, hoping to achieve something. Too late.
In the 1950’s the US fought in Korea and in the 1960’s and 1970’s in Vietnam, the laughable excuse being to curtail communism. The real intention was to have China destabilized, after which US troops would, in a pincer movement, pour into China. This strategy failed.
The US today is an empire in decline. In fact it will go down in history as the shortest lived. The price for imperial policies is a huge foreign and domestic debt, which can never be repayed. The dollar is printed backed by nothing, while Russia and China are preparing to introduce gold backed currencies. The latest news is that Russia has dumped 100 billion of it’s dollar reserves, converting them into yuans, yen, euros, pounds, etc. Countries are already discarding the US dollar, using domestic currencies for bilateral trade.
And the US elite ? No need to worry about it. For years the elite has been purchasing realestate throughhout the world, preparing for the crash of the dollar. New Zealand and Tasmania are very popular. What we have is a repetition of history. Before the Vandals took Rome in 476, the Roman elite was the first to flee.
The very opening sentence in Conroy’s essay is an epic gem:
”In the American context, institutionalised barbarism appears to be the dynamic connecting individual self-interest to state self-interest.”
That’s precisely the crux of the matter. Despite much clamour to the contrary, Pindos have no real individuality (the rest of the West is similar, but the moronic US population constitutes the textbook example). Scratch a rugged Western ’individualist’ and marvel at the grovelling invertebrate peeping out below. It takes very little to have a Pindo throwing temper tantrums by showing disrespect of his/her ”glorious country” and its fabulous constitution, armed forces, and its flag. Nazism is the spawn of Americanism, literally.
Careful now. You’re letting the Brits off the hook in both cases. It’s not quite so simple.
The worst of America and the worst of Germany were their imperial toys to be played with and discarded at will………….and still are.
There were also better things in both land areas that The (British) Empire targeted for destruction, and unfortunately they were quite successful at the cultural warfare aspect of subverting any decent impulses, while pretending to be “your closest friends and allies”..
Supplement to “Thy-Will-Be-Done” – Rabbi Rabinovich speech of January 12th, 1952
http://www.whale.to/c/rabbi_rabinovich1.html
“From outside of America, projection seems to be what America is all about. The self-serving biases in their cognitive and perceptual processes are distorted by their need to maintain and enhance self-esteem. Finding a place in the global community is fraught with insurmountable difficulties relating back to their crusader mentality. As a can-do people they seem to feel that the world is their oyster and want to rearrange it after their own image. After all, their ancestors came from Europe where these biases originated from, and we know that self-serving biases die hard. To Europeans, ‘pagan’ was a self-serving perception used to colonise foreigners and have them serve their conquerors. As of this era, they fail to understand that the world is already inhabited by a diversity of people and have very limited understanding of their cultures. This ignorance is reminiscent of an earlier saga in their history, when conquering the native Indians of the Americas was an occupation that was achieved on autopilot. So, what has changed?”
Nothing much, except the outward mask and marketing slogans used to sell America’s Manifest Destiny to rule the world.
Psychological projection of one’s own crimes is a defining attribute of the United States, as the Americans cannot bear to admit their limitless crimes against humanity around the world and possess a quasi-religious belief in their own divine status as God’s Chosen “Democracy” (or Empire, if they are more honest).