A
Peek At Who Drives
AmeriKKKan Foreign Policy
By Junious
Ricardo Stanton
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War Party's plan, however, had been in preparation far
in advance of 9/11. And when President Bush, after
defeating the Taliban, was looking for a new front in
the war on terror, they put their precooked meal in
front of him. Bush dug into it. Before introducing the
script-writers of America's future wars, consider the
rapid and synchronized reaction of the neocons to what
happened after that fateful day.
On
Sept. 12, Americans were still in shock when Bill
Bennett told CNN that we were in "a struggle
between good and evil," that the Congress must
declare war on "militant Islam," and that
"overwhelming force" must be used. Bennett
cited Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and China as
targets for attack. Not, however, Afghanistan, the
sanctuary of Osama's terrorists. How did Bennett know
which nations must be smashed before he had any idea who
attacked us? The
Wall Street Journal immediately offered up a
specific target list, calling for U.S. air strikes on
"terrorist camps in Syria, Sudan, Libya, and
Algeria, and perhaps even in parts of Egypt." Yet,
not one of Bennett's six countries, nor one of these
five, had anything to do with 9/11. On Sept. 15,
according to Bob Woodward's Bush at War,
"Paul Wolfowitz put forth military arguments to
justify a U.S. attack on Iraq rather than
Afghanistan." Why
Iraq?
Because, Wolfowitz argued in the War Cabinet,
while "attacking Afghanistan would be uncertain
Iraq was a brittle oppressive regime that might break
easily. It was doable." On Sept. 20, forty
neoconservatives sent an open letter to the White House
instructing President Bush on how the war on terror must
be conducted. Signed by Bennett, Podhoretz, Kirkpatrick,
Perle, Kristol, and Washington Post columnist
Charles Krauthammer, the letter was an ultimatum.
To
retain the signers' support, the president was told, he
must target Hezbollah for destruction, retaliate against
Syria and Iran if they refuse to sever ties to Hezbollah,
and overthrow Saddam. Any failure to attack Iraq, the
signers warned Bush, "will constitute an early and
perhaps decisive surrender in the war on international
terrorism.
—Patrick J Buchanan March 24, 2003 The
American Conservative
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Unbeknownst to most Africans who view
Europeans as a monolithic and unified entity when it comes to
global hegemony over first world people, whites are divided
along tribal, ethnic, religious, political and philosophical
lines. While to us they seem like a bunch of virulent
psychopaths (which they are) the various factions have their own
agenda and goals. To find out what they are it behooves us to
step away from the unified illusions presented in the corporate
media and look at what the various factions say about their
adversaries and rivals.
For example we should look at material from
the Militia Movement, the KKK, the Zionists, upper crust old
money groups and the New World Order agents like the Council on
Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission. They tell us what's
on the minds of white folks and, trust me, none of it is good as
far as we are concerned. Another rule of thumb to note is if the
mainstream media ostracizes or marginalize someone it is a good
bet they are persona non grata to one or more of the
various cliques vying for power, influence, or control and they
have given the media the nod to attack, discredit or ruin that
person.
(If for example a black person is given good
press by the national media they plan to use him or co-opt his
program for their own ends. If he or she is vilified in the
press, he or presents a threat to the status quo.) Once all the
mainstream media outlets come together on one accord, it is a
clear sign the ruling elites or their various factions have set
the agenda and the media are merely following orders.
The current war in Iraq is one such example.
Let me be very clear on this, this war is not about a threat to
US security, weapons of mass destruction, or liberating Iraq.
The US is the aggressor here. It is the one using weapons of
mass destruction bullying a weak and overmatched sovereign
country! The only nation in the world that routinely uses
pre-emptive strikes is Israel. The Bush inner circle contains
many pro-Israel and pro Zionist sycophants.
Most of us know oil is a major reason for the
current carnage in Iraq. Geopolitical implications are also a
factor. We cannot discount the influence the Zionists are
exerting in this war as Israel considers Saddam Hussein its
sworn enemy and one of several countries they would love so see
transformed into an impotent pliant neighbor in the region. When
anyone points this out they are immediately pounced upon,
attacked, and viciously denounced as an "anti-Semite,"
despite the fact most European Jews are recent converts to the
religion. I suggest you read via the Internet Patrick J
Buchanan's March 23, 2003 article in the publication The
American Conservative (www.amconmag.com) to see which
factions within the Bush administration and the so called
neo-conservative movement are calling the foreign policy shots.
I for one am not impressed by labels,
liberal, conservative, Republican Democrat, etc because they are
merely expressions of a white supremacist mentality and an
oppressive system that will never addressed our needs on a
holistic level! Our struggle is for self-determination and
mental decolonization. We must view the world from an
ethnocentric or African-centered perspective.
The events in Iraq and the recent hard shift
towards fascism in AmeriKKKa following 9-11 will impact our
daily lives for years to come. For Africans in AmeriKKKa, this
nation has always been a terrorist state. The US Constitution
sanctioned slavery and protected the slaveowners’ interests.
The various states legislated vicious and oppressive slave
codes, formulated a psychological, socio-economic peonage,
racial caste system that legislated "black codes"
following the Civil War and "Reconstruction."
Segregation and racial profiling are integral parts of recent
AmeriKKKan history as are genocide and global imperialism.
The more we know about our enemies and their
world wide modus operandi the better prepared we are for
survival. The bloodlust overseas will only trigger increased
oppression, repression, and blowback, especially as more and
more resist the fascist agenda and expansion of imperialistic
wars. We must become more conscious of the various tribal,
ethnic, and philosophical players, their goals and agenda who
are promulgating a system of global white supremacy.
Note: On February 5, 2001, President Bush announced his
intention to nominate Dr. Paul Wolfowitz (photo above right) to be Deputy Secretary
of Defense. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on Feb.
28th and sworn in March 2, 2001 as the 28th Deputy Secretary of
Defense. This is Dr. Wolfowitz's third tour of duty in the
Pentagon.
posted 21 April 2003
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.— WashingtonPost
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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