Some say we should boycott Israel. Others say that's hypocritical -- after all, Tel Aviv only does what Washington, its paymaster, says it can and should. We should be boycotting the United States of America before we boycott Israel.
But think: who pays for the multinational empire, which allows Washington to finance its own adventures as well as Tel Aviv's and others'? It ain't Tel Aviv, and it ain't Washington either. It's not even the biggest American capitalists. Two of the richest individual members of the American ruling class, Bill Gates (Net Worth: $51.0 billion) and Warren Buffett (Net Worth: $40.0 billion), have bet against the dollar, but they have lost money. Why? The largest institutional investors, Tokyo and Beijing, have continued to support the dollar: MAJOR FOREIGN HOLDERS OF TREASURY SECURITIES (in billions of dollars) HOLDINGS 1/ AT END OF PERIOD Country May 2006 Japan 637.9 China 326.1 <http://www.treasury.gov/tic/mfh.txt> Essentially, Tokyo and Beijing, state capitalist actors, are the largest individual members of the multinational ruling class, but they can't participate in US elections, and they can't easily wield their economic power to put pressures on the US government, even if they had any misgivings about Washington's Iraq War, Iran campaign, or Middle East policy in general (it is not clear that they do), for that will result in momentous upheavals in Japan and China as well as the USA. That's the most important gap between the power elite who directly run the multinational empire, who are American, and the ruling class, who are multinational. In essence, the multinational ruling class can't control the US power elite, for the most powerful members of them need the USA as their most important export market. No wonder the empire is running amok. It would be a different story, of course, if I were running Japan. :-> I'd build nuclear weapons (surely they could be built in Japan in no time, unlike in Iran), abolish Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, beef up the military (hardware must be replaced and soldiers must be retrained, for Washington will no longer provide Japan with them) -- all pleasing to the Right -- and sign new mutual defense treaties with Beijing and Moscow (sweetened with generous bilateral treaties on investment and technology transfer), establish a Yen bloc, make even better friends with oil producers than Tokyo does now (have I mentioned my love for Palestinians, Arabs, and Iranians? I can see the headline: "New Japanese Prime Minister, Darling of Arab Streets"), reestablish lifetime employment, and promise a Constituent Assembly to rewrite the rest of the Constitution -- all pleasing to the Left -- and tell Washington to pack up its military and leave -- pleasing to the Left and the Right! Now, it's time to whip up a new Japanese nationalism -- against America, which would be easy because by then Washington will have become apoplectic, started calling names (a New Tojo!), and begun to put quotas on Japanese goods and other sanctions on Japan -- for it is necessary to get the people ready for temporary sacrifices to come; and then it's time to dump the dollar. The birth pangs of a New Multipolar World. But I'm not running Japan, therefore: Boycott Japan and China, the Financiers of the Multinational Empire! -- -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
