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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector-This is the intro to this DON'T MISS article and link with my, take as you will, comment:
The Economics of Empire
Notes on the Washington Consensus
WILLIAM FINNEGAN / Harper's Magazine May03
William Finnegan is the author of Cold New World. This article elaborates on ideas in an essay that will appear in The Fight Is for Democracy, a collection of original essays by nine writers to be published by HarperCollins in September.
In early March, President Bush, on the verge of declaring war on Iraq, was asked at a press conference why he thought "so many people around the world take a different view of the threat that Saddam Hussein poses than you and your allies." Mr. Bush replied, "I've seen all kinds of protests since I've been the president. I remember the protests against trade. There was a lot of people who didn't feel like free trade was good for the world. I completely disagree. I think free trade is good for both wealthy and impoverished nations. That didn't change my opinion about trade."
Mr. Bush's "opinion about trade" tends to pop up in unlikely places. Shortly after September 11, 2001, he declared, "The terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, and we will defeat them by expanding and encouraging world trade." This was an odd conflation, and the New York Times, reporting his words, felt obliged to flag the president's confusion with a delicate addendum "seeming to imply that trade was among the concerns of terrorists who brought down the towers." The United States trade representative, Robert B. Zoellick, was less delicate when he suggested in a speech around the same time that opponents of corporate-led globalization might have "intellectual connections with" the terrorists. The September 11 attacks were perpetrated, of course, by a genocidal death cult, not by unusually determined proponents of economic democracy...."
Or so the thinking goes. It continues on at the URL. I just want to say what probably would be obvious if not for the hideous insidious influence of "Reality TV", maliciously twisting around the the most basic terms, such as "reality" and "survival" in ways that fit the elite's agenda, so that we people never come to terms with actual reality and how we can, and what we must do, undo, and not do, to actually survive, individually and as a species. This has taken TV to a whole new level of brainwash. I just know the whole Bush regime would be toast by now if not this counter-revolution in television. I was actually looking for another Harpers article: Voting Democracy Off the Island: Reality TV & the Republican Ethos (Francine Prose, Harper's, 03/2004). But unfortunately, hint hint, no one has yet to type it out onto the net. I'm a write off as a typist, myself.
Anyway, this The Economics of Empire -- Notes on the Washington Consensus is another exremely good article taking important edifying turns from the point i cut it off above. The rest is linked below. Beware, it's obviously written for an audience of "liberals", people with their head and heart right into the system. If you're on the left it's still well worth a read as this guy does differentiate between right and wrong. Well, it's important for all of us to have a strong economic analysis as economics underpins everything to the point that political democracy is impossible amidst this economic totalitarianism.
But I just had to stop where i did at this sentence, "The September 11 attacks were perpetrated, of course, by a genocidal death cult, not by unusually determined proponents of economic democracy", to say NO, "genocidal death cult" rather discribes the "Washington Consensus" and cannot apply to "the terrorists". Nor can "terrorist" even apply to the meek peoples in no real position to terrorize. Only the strong can terrorize the weak. And here "the strong" are the greatest, yet pettiest, brutes in the world with a monopoly on violence. With that monopoly only they, the US and its "allies", can really terrorize. And they do. That's why they form such a total, way out of reach, disproportionate monopoly in the first place. To receive the full shock of this reality, also read, "We're in the army now. GOP's plan to spread military culture" by Kevin Baker in Harper's (10/03):35-46. And please, if someone would type these out and circ it on email, post it on indymedia, that would be very helpful. I'm a hopeless pecker of a typist myself, and damn Harper's anyway for not putting at least these must-reads on the net. I believe it would improve their business as well as our chances for positive change in this society. So please also appeal to Harper's better sense, you'd think they must have, eh. Here's the rest of, all of, The Economics of Empire Notes on the Washington Consensus:
http://www.mindfully.org/WTO/2003/Economics-Of-EmpireMay03.htm
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