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In the 1930s the
US,
Great Britain, and the
Netherlands set a course for World War II in the Pacific by conspiring against
Japan. The three governments seized
Japan’s bank accounts in their countries that
Japan used to pay for imports and cut
Japan off from oil, rubber, tin, iron and other vital materials. Was
Pearl Harbor, Japan’s response?
Now
Washington and its NATO puppets are employing the same strategy against
China.
Protests in
Tunisia,
Egypt,
Bahrain, and
Yemen arose from the people protesting against
Washington’s tyrannical puppet governments. However, the protests against Gaddafi, who is not a Western puppet, appear to have been organized by the CIA in the eastern part of
Libya where the oil is and where
China has substantial energy investments.
Eighty percent of Libya’s oil reserves are believed to be in the
Sirte Basin in eastern
Libya now controlled by rebels supported by
Washington. As seventy percent of
Libya’s GDP is produced by oil, a successful partitioning of
Libya would leave Gaddafi’s Tripoli-based regime impoverished.
The
People’s Daily Online (March 23) reported that
China has 50 large-scale projects in
Libya. The outbreak of hostilities has halted these projects and resulted in 30,000 Chinese workers being evacuated from
Libya. Chinese companies report that they expect to lose hundreds of millions of yuan.
China is relying on
Africa, principally
Libya,
Angola, and
Nigeria, for future energy needs. In response to
China’s economic engagement with
Africa,
Washington is engaging the continent militarily with the US African Command (AFRICOM) created by President George W. Bush in 2007. Forty-nine African countries agreed to participate with
Washington in AFRICOM, but Gaddafi refused, thus creating a second reason for
Washington to target
Libya for takeover.
A third reason for targeting
Libya is that
Libya and
Syria are the only two countries with
Mediterranean sea coasts that are not under the control or influence of
Washington. Suggestively, protests also have broken out in
Syria. Whatever Syrians might think of their government, after watching
Iraq’s fate and now
Libya’s it is unlikely that Syrians would set themselves up for
US military intervention. Both the CIA and Mossad are known to use social networking sites to foment protests and to spread disinformation. These intelligence services are the likely conspirators that the Syrian and Libyan governments blame for the protests.
Caught off guard by protests in
Tunisia and
Egypt,
Washington realized that protests could be used to remove Gaddafi and Assad. The humanitarian excuse for intervening in
Libya is not credible considering
Washington’s go-ahead to the Saudi military to crush the protests in
Bahrain, the home base for the US Fifth Fleet.
If
Washington succeeds in overthrowing the Assad government in
Syria,
Russia would lose its Mediterranean naval base at the Syrian
port of Tartus. Thus,
Washington has much to gain if it can use the cloak of popular rebellion to eject both
China and
Russia from the
Mediterranean.
Rome’s mare nostrum (“our sea”) would become
Washington’s mare nostrum.
“Gaddafi must go,” declared Obama. How long before we also hear, “Assad must go?”
The American captive press is at work demonizing both Gaddafi and Assad, an eye doctor who returned to
Syria from
London to head the government after his father’s death.
The hypocrisy passes unremarked when Obama calls Gaddafi and Assad dictators. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the American president has been a Caesar. Based on nothing more than a Justice Department memo, George W. Bush was declared to be above
US statutory law, international law, and the power of Congress as long as he was acting in his role as commander-in-chief in the “war on terror.”
Caesar Obama has done Bush one step better. Caesar Obama has taken the
US to war against
Libya without even the pretense of asking Congress for authorization. This is an impeachable offense, but an impotent Congress is unable to protect its power. By accepting the claims of executive authority, Congress has acquiesced to Caesarism. The American people have no more control over their government than do people in countries ruled by dictators.
Washington’s quest for world hegemony is driving the world toward World War III.
China is no less proud than was
Japan in the 1930s and is unlikely to submit to being bullied and governed by what
China regards as the decadent West.
Russia’s resentment to its military encirclement is rising.
Washington’s hubris can lead to fatal miscalculation.
Reprinted from the Trends Research Institute.
April 6, 2011
Paul Craig Roberts [send him mail], a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how Americans lost the protection of law, has been released by Random House.
Copyright © 2011 Trends Research Institute
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