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IMPERIUM VAN DE IJDELHEID
Maandag, 7 Juli, 2008
SchNews | Ter voorbereiding van jaarlijks kom en begroet door wereldleiders (en volgende massaopstand aan de andere kant van de politielijnen) bij de G8 top in Hokkaido, Japan, het? s tijd namen wij een andere blik bij de Groep van Acht (de V.S., het UK, Duitsland, Italië, Frankrijk, Canada, Japan en Rusland). G8 is hoogste van activisten geweest? klap lijsten sinds de jaren '90 toen de leiders van de wereld het die over de planeet lorded, de wereld speelt? s bevolking zoals marionetten op zijn koorden door WTO, het IMF en de Wereldbank, die het dek van internationale macht en kapitaal houden dat stevig ten gunste van de rijken wordt gestapeld. G8 is soms genoemd geworden G7 plus Rusland - dat uit de oneven man is geweest aangezien het toetrad (gepast meer aan zijn eigendom van duizenden kernwapens dan zijn positie inzake de globale rijke lijst). Het is het één internationale forum dat de wereld samenbrengt? s handel en financiële instellingen. Zet het eenvoudig? s de wereld? s grootste kartel. Door? jaren '90, via onschadelijke klinkende bevelschriften zoals? Verdrag betreffende Eigendomsrechten (REIZEN die - houden kennis die weg onder een handvol elektronika en Biotech firma's wordt gesloten) en? Structureel Aanpassingsbeleid? (een eufemisme voor het plunderen van volledige economieën door moderne dag collectieve privateers), was de wereld volledig onder de controle van de V.S. en zijn bondgenoten. De Sowjetunie was verslagen door de macht van Inc. van de Democratie. en de V.S. hadden overal geen rivalen. Het was economische liberalism en van de ons-Stijl democratie al manier, met Gladde Willy Clinton bij het roer. Het was? Eind van Geschiedenis? , zoals triomfantelijk afgekondigd door rechtse denkers. VERWEZENLIJKTE OPDRACHT? Maar het allen bleek een weinig voorbarig. In de twilight maanden van het beleid van Bush, kijkt G8 meer als een globale toeschouwer dan de enige speler. Over de wereld zijn de landen dat het Westen wordt was geworden dat aan rond gebruikt tot het opdracht geven aan hun eigen wijsje begonnen te dansen. Zelfs? betrouwbaar? De bondgenoten van de V.S. zoals Saudi-Arabië aren? t bang te zeggen? nr? aan de V.S.? s gezicht (zij zij wezen onlangs een verzoek af om meer olie van de globale markten ondanks Dubya vrij te geven? s persoonlijke interventie). Around the world the battle for drug patents has basically been won by the third world drugs producers (Brazil, Thailand, India) after the G8 realised that neither the western pharma companies or the WTO could stop them. Latin America has now pretty much thrown out the IMF and their ilk, refusing to sup from the poisoned chalice of Structural Adjustment any more. During the ?80s and ?90s Argentina followed the dictates of the IMF & World Bank faithfully, only to be rewarded with the total collapse of their country?s economy - banks and factories closed overnight, and the Argentinian people responded with massive strikes and worker occupations of bankrupt factories (See SchNEWS 350). The elites of Argentina sensibly saw which way the wind was blowing and stepped aside to make way for the centre-left (and hardly revolutionary) government of Nestor Kirchner, who chucked out the IMF, WB, WTO and their advisors and refused to listen to the financial advisors who predicted doom and catastrophe. They were wrong, and since they stopped listening to the globalists both the Argentinean economy and average standard of living (not the same thing by the way) have gone up and up. Since then two-thirds of Latin America has followed suit, and the hemisphere, once America?s back yard, has begun to make faltering steps towards integration - independent of the gringos - via organisations such as MERCOSUR and the (much more ambitious) Bolivaran Alernative for the Americans (ALBA).
But even this is just the tip of the iceberg. The economies of Asia, traditionally heavily dependent on the Americans, still remember the battering they took in the late 90s during the collapse of the ?Asian bubble?. Since then they?ve made sure that there’s plenty of extra dosh in their state coffers, ensuring that no matter how bad things get they don?t have to go down the path of short term gain for long term pain of IMF loans. The lack of customers has effectively ruined the IMF. From a budget of over $100 billion four years ago, they can now barely scrape together $10 billion, most of which now goes to just two countries: Turkey and Pakistan. The organisation which once played the role of global loanshark is now feeling itself the pinch. Once Turkey pays off the last of its outstanding loans, the IMF will basically run out of fresh sources of cash from the world?s poor. The net result of the failure of these US created and led institutions is that the G8 has lost control of global policy, in what even people inside the establishment are calling ?a guerilla assault on the Washington Consensus.? There?s still plenty of countries that are suffering horrendously from the same privatise-and-be-damned ideology of neoliberalism, but the tide is noticeably turning. States from China to Bolivia are turning state coffers over to internal development and poverty reduction, and in the process creating markets outside of the control of the G8. Stuggling against the tide the G8 is bringing in some of the larger non-western countries into the fold, intending to co-opt them into selling out the rest of the developing nations and making it worth their while to play ball according to US/European rules. The so-called ?Outreach Five (not the latest boy-band) consist of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa. Last year, whilst the black block was busy shutting the city down, the G8 nations were kick-starting the ?Heiligendamm Process? aimed to get these countries on board. The problem (from the G8?s perspective), is that these countries aren?t likely to leave it at the level of discussion. They?re demanding an ever larger slice of the pie. END OF AN ERROR? Just about the only place where you can see the aggressive introduction of old-school neoliberal policies on weaker nations is in the countries occupied as part of the ?War on Terror?. In Afghanistan - and especially Iraq - entire state industries were privatised with a stroke of the American Proconsul?s pen. Water, health, education, industry were all declared open for the attentions of multinational corporations. The result has been as brutal as it has been predictable. Iraq?s public services (once the best in the Middle East) were destroyed almost overnight, spiralling its population further into poverty and easing Iraq?s population into armed resistance that has all but destroyed American plans for Iraq. It is to nobody?s surprise that the oil laws being drafted by the ?sovereign? state of Iraq allow for the return of all the major US oil companies, 36 years after they were kicked out by Ba?athist nationalism. The Iraq war looks more like one last desperate throw of the dice by a visibly weakening empire. Bush?s legacy may well be that the United States is now seen as a fundamentally dangerous country that smaller nations can band together against. In the process this has created organisations such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan ? See SchNEWS 551) which now holds joint military exercises ?to fight back against new threats and challenges.? They also have an energy policy, the Asian Energy Security Grid, which has the potential to effectively counter US control the Middle-East?s oil. With this shift in global political power the West is likely to get increasingly desperate as their economies go down the pan and oil resource pressures start to bite. The likely consequences may not be pretty as the US and its allies up their military spending and repression to counter the largely phantom threat of terrorism. But it’s reassuring to SchNEWS that there are still those in the beast of the belly willing to counter it. * More info on G8 in Japan: www.jca.apc.org/alt-g8/en and http://a.sanpal.co.jp/no-g8 Have Your Say: EMPIRE OF THE VANITIES Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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