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虛榮的帝國
星期一， 2008年7月7日
SchNews | 在奔跑由每年集會決定和由世界領導(和接著而來的許多造反招呼在警察線的另一邊)在G8山頂在北海道，日本，它？s時間我們看一看在八組(美國、英國、德國、意大利、法國、加拿大、日本和俄國)。 G8是活動家上面？ 擊中名單從90年代，當世界的領導lorded它在行星，演奏世界？s人口通過WTO， IMF和世界銀行在它的串喜歡木偶，保留國際力量和資本甲板牢固地被堆積傾向於富有。 G8有時通認作為G7加上是奇怪的人的俄國-，自從它加入了(更由於數以萬計它的歸屬核武器比它的位置在全球性富有的名單)。 它是帶來世界的这一個國際論壇？s商業和財政機關。 簡單地投入它？s世界？s最大的企業聯合。 在中？90s，通過無害聽起來法令例如？條約關於財產權(旅行-保持知識在幾家電子和生物科技企業之中被鎖)和？結構調整政策？ (雅語為搶劫整個經濟由現代天公司privateers)，世界充分地是受美國和它的盟友的控制。 蘇聯由Democracy擊敗了Inc.的力量 并且美國沒有任何地方敵手。 它一直是經濟自由化和我們樣式民主，與油滑的Willy克林頓在舵。 它是？結尾的歷史？如由右翼思想家勝利地宣告。 被實現的使命？ 但它所有結果是過早的一點。 在布什政府的暮色月， G8比單一球員看更可能一個全球性觀眾。 橫跨西方得到了使用到任意驅使的世界國家開始跳舞到他們自己的聲調。 ？可靠？ 美國盟友像沙特阿拉伯aren ？t害怕說？否？ 到美國？s面孔(他們他們最近拒绝了一個請求釋放更多油入全球性市場儘管Dubya ？s個人干預)。 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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