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All About Natural Resources and Global Control
com m odities.
H appily, w e have a helpful tool
fo r getting w hat w e w ant: conquest.
N ot n ecessarily th ro u g h p itch ed
b a ttle o r in c e ssa n t b o m b in g —
though those rem ain im portant tech­
niques to trot out from tim e to tim e.
by W illiam A . C ollins
T hanks to W ikiL eaks, w e have a
R uling the w orld, as o ur g o v ern ­
m ent does, is tricky. U ncle Sam can pretty good g rip on how these o p ­
erations w ork today O u r Special
never relax.
T he m om ent resisters in som e Forces have a m anual that explains
subservient country, like Pakistan, it. R eco m m en d ed tactics focus on
sense w eakness, they test him . H e param ilitaries, surveillance, cen so r­
can't afford to be seen as soft and ship, press co n tro l, lim iting unions,
he's got to keep his eye on p re v i­ lim iting political parties, w arrantless
ously uncontested lands, like M ali. searches, arbitrary detention, e m ­
M aintaining steady access to a p loying terrorists, false charges o f
bounty o f natural resources is the terrorism , false flag operations, and
m ajo r goal o f this global control. p ro p ag an d a.
In oth er w ords, all the usual stu ff
T he w orld is using them up at a
heady clip. A m erica dares not fall o f em pire. O u r em bassies, co n su ­
short o f controlling its lion's share, lates, m ilitary liaisons, and arm y
esp ecially w ith C h in a's gro w in g bases have been teaching these tac­
appetite for iron ore, oil, and o th er tics fo r decades. T h ey 're fu rth er
America’s
empire
addiction
' J J D r t í i t t i Í I ( D h s iV U C if Established 1970
P u blisher :
E d ito r :
Mark Washington
M ich a el L eighton
E xecutive D irector :
Rakeem Washington
C reative D irector :
P aul N e u fe ld t
O ffice M anac . er /C lassifieds :
A dvertising M anager :
Lucinda Baldwin
Leonard Latin
supported by the State D epartm ent-
financed N ational E ndow m ent for
D em o cracy and International R e­
p u b lic a n In stitu te . H a v in g b een
d eem ed to actually constitute fo r­
eign agents, these groups have re ­
cently been ex p elled from R ussia,
E gypt, and a few o th er countries.
N orm ally all these im perial activi­
ties go u n rem ark ed in the U .S. m e­
dia. In part, that's b ecau se there's
nothing new regarding the scale o f
o ur em pire. T he O bam a A dm inistra­
tion m ay h av e sharply cut troop
levels in Iraq and A fghanistan, but
it h a s a ls o v a s tly e x p a n d e d
A m erica's reliance on drone w arfare
and the scale o f U .S. m ilitary o p era­
tions in A frica.
Plainly, there are other large world
players in the em pire gam e. R ussia
m ay be a hegem onic has-been, but
it still possesses a slew o f nukes. In
response, w e've got a m assive wall
o f an ti-m issile bases around that
c o u n try — to w hich M oscow loudly
o b jects.
L ikew ise the P entagon is su r­
rounding C h in a w ith bases to m en ­
ace it m ilitarily in case it gets too
econom ically pow erful.
So that's how the A m erican e m ­
pire goes in the 21 st century. It's an
addiction. U n cle Sam is try in g to
control ev ery c o untry, propping up
his d ictato r friends and subverting
his antagonists, w h eth er autocrats
or dem ocrats.
A nd as o ur leaders cut Social
S ecurity and M ed icare to pay the
outlandish tab fo r ruling the w orld,
they have to ju stify it by claim ing
that this b lessed nation is som ehow
in m ortal danger.
OtherWords columnist William
A. Collins is a former state repre­
sentative and a former mayor of
Norwalk, Conn.
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