China must be stopped before it imposes totalitarian diplomacy on Ukraine and authoritarian peace in the middle east. --Caitlin Johnstone
by C. A. Matthews
I
took only one economics course in college, but even I can understand
enough about our screwed up capitalist economic system to see where
we’ve gone wrong. We’ve placed greed before compassion and war
before peace because of their profit-making abilities. Look where it’s
gotten us—the US stands on the precipice of total
disaster.
And
that’s a good thing.
Can
the destruction of our corporate-controlled government’s way of
manipulating and exploiting other governments be a positive
development in the quest for world peace? I think we’re witnessing
the end of an era. Soon the United States will have to stop forcing “freedom and
democracy” upon
other countries via
sanctions and bombings.
This “War
on Terrorism”
era that turned the US into the world’s biggest economic
terrorist is, at last, drawing to a close. China is taking the world
stage as peacemaker, acting
as a go-between to feuding neighbors Iran and Saudi Arabia. Other countries are being
helped by China’s New Silk
Road (officially, the Belt
and Road Initiative) with its low interest loans that will help them build necessary infrastructure projects.
I can see that quizzical look on some of my readers' faces now. China?
What do you mean it’s not forcing itself on others with economic
sanctions and threats of “military interventions” the way the US
does? It actually wants countries to get along so everyone can
safely do business with each other and live in peace?
What a dangerous concept according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Blinken actually claimed that brokering peace deals between
countries wasn’t a good thing after China said it was
willing to sit down with Russia and Ukraine and help them put
an end to their disagreements and save lives.
The
US refuses to accept these potential peace negotiations (even though we’re
supposedly not even at war with Russia) because it’s not in our
best interests according to Blinken. The
US government’s stance is that it prefers
the fighting continue—or is it our true masters, the military
industrial complex, who prefer this proxy war go on forever?
Endless warfare means they can sell an infinite amount of armaments
to a steadily growing number of combatants. At
least that’s the theory if the countries involved don’t run out of
soldiers.
I
guess there’s always those nifty A.I. “robodogs” with machine
guns for faces to take up the slack, right?
MIC capitalists
can’t have peace and cooperation breaking out across the planet
like crocuses breaking through the frozen soil in the spring. No, never! What would happen to their profits if
people simply lived in harmony with each other? Oh, the
horror!
Those
Americans who continue listening to mainstream media propagandists (who actually work for the military industrial complex) will
continue believing that “War is Peace.” Orwellian doublespeak
makes
them see
the world through
the eyes of capitalist warmongers and
profiteers.
They irrationally hate China and its diplomatic ways. They’ll
continue screaming for billions of dollars more to be sent to Ukraine
in order to prolong that conflict, in spite of the fact there are
fewer and fewer Ukrainians left to do the fighting. They’ll insist
on the US starting a war to nuke China over Taiwan, a break away
province that hasn’t been sanctioned or bombed by its parent
country. For
capitalists, it’s America’s
way or the highway, even if the highway is
strewn with millions of dead bodies from
conflicts that could have easily been avoided.
Fortunately,
the vast majority of sane individuals on this planet aren’t falling
for the capitalists’ lies about the necessity for resource grabs any longer. They don’t agree with the US policy
of economic sanctions that cause hunger and chaos in their wake.
African leaders told a visiting V.P. Kamala Harris that
they’re not going to be bullied into using the American
petrodollar to do business internationally anymore. India and Pakistan have purchased and
sold oil
recently from Russia using their currency and not the petrodollar.
Many
countries are applying to join BRICS, an association of nations
willing do business with each other in their own currencies and not
the “standard reserve currency” of the US petrodollar.
Upon
hearing about the growth of BRICS and the use of
other
currencies, Senator Marco Rubio let slip in a news interview: “They're creating a secondary economy in the world totally independent of
the United States. We won't have to talk about sanctions in five years,
because there'll be so many countries transacting in currencies other
than the dollar that we won't have the ability to sanction them."
Oops!
That’s
great news for heavily
sanctioned
countries like Cuba. Cuba, a
country that came
up with its own COVID-19 vaccine that it freely shares with others as
well as a lung cancer vaccine than can cure millions. Cuba would prosper
and be able to share even more of its people’s expertise freely
without the economic roadblock of the US petrodollar.
But Big Pharmaceutical corporations don’t want the “competition”
that free vaccines and cures for cancer can give, so the US economic
sanctions most
likely will continue
for
the foreseeable future.
It’s
nothing to be proud of. US
economic sanctions and military interventions have maimed, starved,
injured
and killed more human beings in the last seventy years that in all the wars
that have taken placed before that time. Most
of the dead are children.
Why, oh why? Don’t you capitalists have enough profits? Your
CEOs are multi-billionaires already—do they have to become
trillionaires at
the cost of so much human suffering?
I've had enough of them. I
say, “So long, petrodollar! Hello, world peace!” What
about this“Good-bye,
BlackRock” then?
French
protesters—remember them from last week’s blog?—entered the
Paris headquarters of BlackRock. BlackRock is an
international corporation with assets worth somewhere in the vicinity of $10
trillion dollars. (Yes, that’s trillion with a “tr” and not a
“b”.) If you are one of the millions of Americans who lost their
home in the 2008 mortgage crisis, the bank or mortgage company that
repossessed your home is probably controlled by
BlackStone, which is owned by BlackRock. They hold a
major share in thousands of corporations worldwide. Some of these
corporations are major players in the US military industrial complex.
BlackRock
has a lot of its investments in pension plans, perhaps even your own
401K, and it owns a lot of the French pension system as well. The
French workers have told President Macron that they’re tired of the
wealthy not paying their fair share of taxes and his unilateral
raising of their retirement age. They are burning bank buildings
because
they realize
their
true enemies are not their fellow workers, or
even people around the world who don’t look like them,
but the capitalists who own and operate such obscenities
as BlackRock.
The
French are also marching in the streets shouting at Macron to stop
spending their taxes to fund a proxy war to control natural gas sales in
Europe. They are anti-NATO, because everyone in France
openly acknowledges that the Ukraine conflict was provoked by Western
economies to break the Russian and its friends' economies. French workers want peace and
justice for
ordinary people, not only the multi-billionaires.
Now
you can see why Secretary Blinken doesn’t want China to broker a
peace deal between Ukraine and Russia. There’s money to be
made in conflict for his bosses in the military industrial complex, and peace would cause their profits to plummet. The
petrodollar is on the wane, and he knows it. US economic sanctions won’t work much
longer if
there are other currencies being used to do business internationally
between nations. The whole “terrorist threat” of US economic
sanctions and endless
warfare/coups d'état might
be coming to an end much sooner than predicted.
It’s
about time.
Let’s
give peace a chance, America. Everyone will benefit. Even the goddamn profit-loving capitalists.
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