The following short statement by William Blum in Z Magazine, though 15 years old, it is still an accurate summary American foreign policy.
The engine of American foreign policy has been fueled not by a devotion to any kind of morality, but rather by the necessity to serve other imperatives, which can be summarized as follows:
* making the world safe for American corporations;
* enhancing the financial statements of defense contractors at home who have contributed generously to members of congress;
* preventing the rise of any society that might serve as a successful example of an alternative to the capitalist model;
* extending political and economic hegemony over as wide an area as possible, as befits a "great power."
This in the name of fighting a supposed moral crusade against what cold warriors convinced themselves, and the American people, was the existence of an evil International Communist Conspiracy, which in fact never existed, evil or not.
He goes on to say that between 1945 and 1999 the US has intervened militarily in 70 countries. That I would say, is a world record.
It is also true to say that all those interventions were carried out on the back of a lie. The American imperialists need a constant state of war, it is what their power and wealth is built on. In a recent article, John Pilger does an excellent job in clarifying this continual slaughter flagged up as a moral crusade but built on lies to further their power.
This extract gives an insight to how modern Western, (US dominated) imperialism, with a cavalier attitude to bloodshed, carves up the world to its advantage.
The "humanitarian war" against Libya drew on a model close to western liberal hearts, especially in the media. In 1999, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair sent Nato to bomb Serbia, because, they lied, the Serbs were committing "genocide" against ethnic Albanians in the secessionist province of Kosovo. David Scheffer, US ambassador-at-large for war crimes [sic], claimed that as many as "225,000 ethnic Albanian men aged between 14 and 59" might have been murdered. Both Clinton and Blair evoked the Holocaust and "the spirit of the Second World War". The West's heroic allies were the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), whose criminal record was set aside. The British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, told them to call him any time on his mobile phone.Read the full article HERE:
With the Nato bombing over, and much of Serbia's infrastructure in ruins, along with schools, hospitals, monasteries and the national TV station, international forensic teams descended upon Kosovo to exhume evidence of the "holocaust". The FBI failed to find a single mass grave and went home. The Spanish forensic team did the same, its leader angrily denouncing "a semantic pirouette by the war propaganda machines". A year later, a United Nations tribunal on Yugoslavia announced the final count of the dead in Kosovo: 2,788. This included combatants on both sides and Serbs and Roma murdered by the KLA. There was no genocide. The "holocaust" was a lie. The Nato attack had been fraudulent.
We live in a fog of propaganda, spewed out by that babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, and "information", in the form of smoke and mirrors, from the state and various corporate and political institutions. we are in a theatre, watching a carefully scripted play, reality is elsewhere, outside the political theatre of capitalist society.
