Cracks in the Empire [col. writ. 2/20/11] (c) '11 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Despite what talking heads in corporate media proclaim, there hasn't been a
revolution in the North African countries of Tunisia or Egypt, or the
Persian Gulf's Bahrain. These have been rebellions.
For revolutions transform whole societies - they just don't remove a
few leaders.
That's why much of U.S. reporting is so misleading. They want to call it a
Revolution, applaud it, and freeze it, while their handpicked leaders or
purchased armies seize the reins of power.
That said, isn't it curious that most of the countries where rebellions
are most widespread are headed by presidents or princes who are U.S. allies?
And these allies have used their armies and police to suppress their people,
who oppose deeply unpopular policies of their rulers?
These rebellions pose serious challenges to the U.S. empire, for they
threaten to dismantle the repressive regimes that under gird U.S. Middle
East policy. They are still building, still emerging, across the entire
region, and espousing a democracy that the U.S. neither wants nor truly
supports.
Remember the indecision with which it initially faced Egyptian unrest?
'Nonviolence on both sides?'
When one side has tanks, guns, helicopter gunships and fighter jets, and
the other side has -- well, sticks -- what can that mean? The U.S. wants
quiet. Period.
For, if the choice is between democracy and stability, it'll opt for
stability every time, for globalization requires stability, and
globalization is the instrument of empire.
Indeed, it is but another word for colonialism -- the control of other
states by a central, imperial state.
But this empire is also a debtor nation, which manufactures little, and
has to beg abroad to pay its vast armies, and support its global apparatus.
As colonies peel away, or are taken back by their people, the empire
decays, first by inches, then by fee, and soon --by miles.
We may be witnessing the end of something huge.
(c) '11 maj
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